SONGS OF THE SOUL
Original Writings of Paramhansa Yogananda
Paramhansa Yogananda is best known for his Autobiography of a Yogi, a book that he said the Lord Himself commissioned him to write, in response to a silent call among many souls for a “practical religion” that would enable them to know the Divinity that dwells in their own hearts and souls.
Those who met Yogananda were overwhelmed by the magnetic power of his love. Saints and sages recognized him as one of their own. Sri Ananda Moyi Ma, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Rama Yogi, and Mahatma Gandhi—these and many other great souls perceived in him an avatar, God incarnated with the power to redeem not only a few close disciples but a vast flock who would be transformed by his divine ray.
“As a bright light shining in the midst of darkness, so was Yogananda’s presence in this world. Such a great soul comes on earth only rarely, when there is a real need among men.” – The Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, spiritual leader of millions of Hindus.
Though divinely tasked with bringing a practical teaching, Yogananda preferred to express his wisdom not in dry intellectual terms but as pure, expansive feeling. To drink his poetry is to be drawn into the web of his boundless, childlike love.
Nor was his vision limited to this earthly plane – in one moment his Songs of the Soul invite us to join him as he plays among the stars with his Cosmic Beloved. Then they call us to discover that portion of our own hearts that is eternally one with the Nearest and Dearest.
Like his famous Whispers From Eternity, this volume is a bubbling, singing wellspring of spiritual healing that we can bring with us everywhere. (Also included is the addition of five poems not included in the original, 1923 edition.)
Table of Content
Contents for Songs of the Soul
Part I
They Are Thine
Consecration
Soul Is Marching On
Thou In Me
Thy Call
One That’s Everywhere
Whispers
Too Near
In Me
Evasion
Thy Cruel Silence
One Friend
I Am Here
Where I Am
Flower Offering
The Tattered Dress
A Milk-White Sail
Thy Secret Throne
Methought I Heard a Voice
For Thee and Thine
The Harvest
The Splinters of Thy Love
PART IIEternity
Wake, Wake My Sleeping Hunger, Wake!
Vanishing Bubbles
Undying Beauty
At the Roots of Eternity
Variety
The Noble New
The Blood of Rose
Protecting Thorns
Tattered Garment
The Ever-Trodden Path
Nature’s Nature
In Stillness Dark
Silence
OM
My Kinsmen
It’s All Unknown
Mystery
At the Fountain of Song
A Mirror New
The Ever New
The Human Mind
The Spell 7
The Cup of Eternity
PART IIICity Drum
My Native Land
On Coming to the New — Old Land — America
Mohawk Trail
The Toiler’s Lay
PART IVForeword
Vision of Visions
PART V—Additional Poems by Paramhansa YoganandaGod Alone!
God Alone [2]
When I am Only a Dream
The Awakening
Banks of Eternity
About the author
Paramhansa Yogananda Born in India in 1893, he was trained from his early years to bring India’s ancient science of Self-realization to the West. In 1920 he moved to the United States. His arrival in Boston in marked the beginning of a new wave of spiritual consciousness in America and throughout the world. Beginning the development of a worldwide work touching millions of lives. Americans were hungry for India’s spiritual teachings, and for the liberating techniques of yoga. When he published his now famous Autobiography of a Yogi in 1946, it was soon after the close of the second World War, a conflict which he prayed would never be repeated. The book had tremendous influence and inspired spiritual leaders in the growing counter-culture movement which blossomed over a decade later, and has become a spiritual classic and one of the best-loved books of the 20th century, Autobiography of a Yogi. In addition, Yogananda established headquarters for a worldwide work, wrote a number of books and study courses, gave lectures to thousands in most major cities across the United States, wrote music and poetry, and trained disciples. He was invited to the White House by Calvin Coolidge, and he initiated Mahatma Gandhi into Kriya Yoga, his most advanced technique of meditation. Yogananda’s message to the West highlighted the unity of all religions, and the importance of love for God combined with scientific techniques of meditation. His mission was one of world peace and brotherhood, as well as individual Self-realization, both of which he said could be achieved through the practice of transformative meditation techniques such as Kriya Yoga, which he referred to as "the airplane route to God." Through his books, teachings, and practices of meditation and yoga, Yogananda helped to usher in the sweeping increase in interest in peace, consciousness, and self-transformation. For this he is often known today as the "father of yoga in the West."
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