PARAMHANSA YOGANANDJI

Learn to accept heat, cold, pleasure, pain, with more even-mindedness. The body must be trained to rise above every test it meets. But don’t be rash; develop increasing mind power that gradually brings the body under your command. The cultivation of endurance is not meant to torture, but to remove all torture.



—Paramahansa Yogananda, “Wisdom of Paramahansa Yogananda,” from Self-Realization magazine, summer 1978.