Songs of the Soul

amazing poetry from a Master

This book is for the reader's soul. You can gain great inspiration and love through Yogananda's writings.

When Spirit is as close and intimate as your mother and father and best of friends and lover... then spiritual poetry becomes a personal outpouring. In these "songs" from the 1920s and 1930s when he traveled the United States on lecture tour, Paramahansa Yogananda reveals a sweet humility reminiscent of St. Theresa of Lisieux. It may be surprising that a master of yoga disciplines expresses himself in such devotional, personal terms to both his Heavenly Creator and to his earthly charges... but such was his nature. The language is often simple, but occasionally it surprises the reader with striking metaphors and turns of a phrase that belie English as the author's second language.Here are the opening and closing lines from one of my personal favorites; it shows the master's love for his disciples... and the master's love for His Master."WHEN I AM ONLY A DREAM"I come to tell you all of Him,And the way to encase Him in your bosom,And of the discipline that brings His grace.. . .But when I shall become only a memory, or a mental image, or silently speaking voice,When no earthly call will ever revealMy whereabouts in unplumbed space...I will come to remind you that you too are naughtBut a dream of my Heavenly Beloved;And when you know you are a dream, as I know now,We will be ever awake in Him.

Yogananda's SONGS OF THE SOUL, is an inspiring spiritual trip through the higher consciousness of a Self-Realized master. A genre of poetry that has your deepest feelings and perceptions flowing godward to a higher knowing of your Self as light, peace and joy. The writers presence, energy and devoton are clearly felt in every word, on every page. From whence his unique life giving insights trickle into ones awareness. For a refreshing experince in MIND ENHANCING POETRY, this book will take you somewhere you have never been before.