💜🌺🙏 1951, August 25 James Lynn takes monastic vows and his new name Rajarsi Janakananda. Paramahansa Yogananda announces that he will be the next president and spiritual head of SRF/YSS
RAJARSI: (excerpt) …Up until that time I was continually jumping from one pursuit to another, trying to find some joy, some happiness and peace. After all, we are all searching for something. But we don’t know what it is. We want to bring to ourselves some joy, something that makes us feel happy. But we are never satisfied. We attain one desire and pass on to another, destroying our peace and health in all of them. The more wealth we have, the more it becomes a burden and the more unhappy we become. That was my life before meeting Paramahansaji. ….
There isn’t any worry that is not based on fear. We fear something and then we begin to worry about it, and we burn up our intelligence and energy in that state of fear and worry. But we can be free from that fear and worry by remaining in His love, allowing it to flow through us. Aren’t we then able to accomplish more than the person who is in fear of everything that is going to happen, wasting himself away? One can certainly be more successful in that calm, peaceful state of God-awareness. ….
My friends, I can assure you from my own experience that what we need is the consciousness of God, the melting or merging of the soul in God, for He gives us everything we need. When our consciousness is with God, we forget about ourselves as individuals. To think less about yourself makes you trustingly childlike, no longer nervous or tense. You become just peace itself.
excerpt of “Living in the world with consciousness of God” by Rajarsi Janakananda
Self-Realization magazine Winter 2007
