Yogananda Paramahamsa

[Guest guest]

" What is God? " asked a student.

" God is Eternal Bliss, " the Master replied. " His being is love, wisdom, and

joy. " He is both impersonal and personal, and manifests Himself in whatever way

He pleases. He appears before His saints in the form each of them holds dear: a

Christian sees Christ, a Hindu beholds Krishna or the Divine Mother, and so on.

Devotees whose worship takes an impersonal turn become conscious of the Lord as

an infinite Light or as the wondrous sound of Aum, the primal Word, the Holy

Ghost. The highest experience man can have is to feel that Bliss in which every

other aspect of Divinity -- love, wisdom, immortality -- is fully contained.

 

" But how can I convey to you in words the nature of God? He is ineffable,

indescribable. Only in deep meditation shall you know His unique essence. "