Yoga Life

Swami Sri Yukteswar, widely regarded as a Jnanavatar, “incarnation of wisdom,” was born on this day in 1855. The guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, he was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya and is the paramguru of all Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship Kriya Yogis.

Probably love has totally disappeared from this world. Love implies generosity, care, not to hurt another, not to make another feel guilty, to be generous, courteous, and behave in such a manner that your words and thoughts are born out of compassion. Of course you cannot be compassionate if you belong to organized religious institutions—large, powerful, traditional, dogmatic, that insist on faith. There must be freedom to love. That love is not pleasure, desire, a remembrance of things that have gone. Love is not the opposite of jealousy, hate and anger.
All this may sound rather Utopian, idealistic, something that man can only aspire to. But if you believe that then you will go on killing. Love is as real, as strong, as death.

J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti to himself