Finding the Joy Within You: Personal Counsel for God-Centered Living

by Sri Daya Mata

Book Overview

Finding the Joy Within You is a compassionate and deeply encouraging book that speaks to all who long to know that God is real, that He is near to us at all times, and that we can live every day of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876122888
• ISBN13: 9780876122884
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.9" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Lessons from Living with a Light-Being .

This collection of Daya Mata's talks includes some of her most intimate experiences during the twenty years of yoga training she spent with Paramahansa Yogananda, including the instantaneous healing that she had upon first meeting him in 1931 and her NDE (clinical death) experience around 1951. Many of the chapters are transcripts of such intensely moving personal sharings that Sri Daya Mata only reluctantly shared with small groups of devotees on rare occasions when she received a clear inner sanction (most were previously available only on tape recordings). The availability in book form of these intimate spiritual revelations is a memorable blessing to those who value the chance to dip back into the peak moments of a yogi-saint of untainted stature. Sri Daya Mata's own ego is illusive as she ever lets herself slide into the background, dedicating all action and credit to "God and Guru." In her interactions with her teacher we see in turn how he dedicated himself to "God and (his) Guru..." and so on ad inifinitum. As one of Mataji's close associates put the challenge: although the average materialist thinks that it signifies a weak will to turn over one's will to Divine Guidance, in fact it takes EXTRAORDINARY will power to follow divine will when the ego is saying 'go this way' and the trivial momentary desires of the body are saying 'go that way.' In Sri Daya Mata's style and substance we see how the power, creativity and beauty of spirit shine through when the ego reaches that paradoxical pinnacle of spirituality: humility.

An inspiration to all with her great wisdom and love

Daya Mata entered Paramahansa Yogananda's ashram in 1931 and is today his foremost living disciple. She inspires all with her great wisdom and love. She is president and spiritual head of the Self-Realization Fellowship. This remarkable book includes more than thirty chapters on her personal course for God-centered living. She convinces that we can know God and discover a hidden blessing in every adversity.

A MODERN GUIDE TO SPIRITUALIZING YOUR LIFE

Daya Mata speaks with candid clarity about living a better and more rewarding life, much of it taken from her own unique experiences. This is an excellent spiritually motivating work which will answer many questions for the sincere novice and advanced devotee of any path. A long time and loyal disciple of the great spiritual Master Paramahansa Yogananda, she expresses the Divine love of Self-Realization. The author has been the spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship and has succeded for over 40 years in maintaining the purity and spirit of Yogananda's tesching. She has also been an outstanding example of this divine path. Let her show you in her own words through this book. Her straightforward communication never leaves one confused about how to live life with more joy and awareness of God's love. The elements of her pure and enlightened consciousness strengthens the readers spiritual determination. This book has a universal appeal of non-sectarian approach. Subjects Include: The divine Purpose of Life......The way to Peace. ..........Understanding the souls need for God. .............The world is Our Family.... ......God Communion: The thread uniting All Religions. ....Harmonizing Spirituality with Outer Achievements. ...............Free Yourself from Tension. .........Deepening Your Love for God. ...........Chanting as a form of Meditation........................ ..........Death: Mystery portal to a better Land ...............The Skilled Profession of child-rearing. ....Overcoming Character Liabilities. ......The Perfect Joy. .....Humility: Perpetual Quietness of Heart. ...........Paramahansa Yogananda-as I Knew Him. ..........Love Will Be a Saviour of the world. ...................Living a God-centered Life. ..........An Anthology of counsel..... AND MUCH MORE... Also recommended: Only Love,..........Enter the Quiet Heart.......In the Sanctuary of the Soul......Only Love......Autobiography of a Yogi....The Journey to Self-realization. etc