Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
Interpretation
True healing comes from a deep understanding rather than just luck.
Paramahansa Yogananda emphasizes that effective healers possess profound knowledge and insight into the nature of health and well-being. Rather than relying on random chance, they apply their understanding for genuine healing, reflecting a blend of spiritual awareness and practical wisdom.
In practice
During a wellness seminar, the speaker quoted Yogananda to emphasize the importance of understanding in healing practices.
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.
It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
Adults are just outdated children.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
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