Timeless Wisdom for Today’s World
Solving the Mystery of Life is the highly anticipated fourth volume in Paramahansa Yogananda’s acclaimed anthology series, Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life. With personal counsel and profound insights delivered extemporaneously, Yogananda illuminates the universal path of yoga and shows how to live with wisdom, resilience, and joy in daily life — much needed in our rapidly changing world.
Paramahansa Yogananda is a world-renowned spiritual master and the author of the bestseller Autobiography of a Yogi. Yogananda is recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the world of India's ancient wisdom and science of meditation. His life and Kriya Yoga teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures, and creeds. Solving the Mystery of Life reflects Paramahansa Yogananda's unique ability to blend profound wisdom with practical insight.
Few books can claim to hold the answers to life’s greatest questions. In Solving the Mystery of Life, Paramahansa Yogananda not only reveals the meaning and purpose of life, but also clearly explains the spiritual laws by which yogis attain self-mastery, and provides methods and principles to attain true and lasting happiness. As one who solved the mystery of life himself, Yogananda explains the divine laws at work in the universe and how to live in harmony with them.
The book presents Paramahansa Yogananda’s How-to-Live teachings, which offer timeless, practical guidance for living with balance, clarity, and inner peace in today’s fast-paced and uncertain world. Rooted in ancient yogic wisdom, How-to-Live teachings address every aspect of life — body, mind, and soul — helping readers navigate stress, find purpose, and stay connected with their higher selves.
Yogananda’s talks and classes in the earliest years of his mission were recorded only intermittently. When Sri Daya Mata (who later became president of Self-Realization Fellowship) joined his ashram in 1931, she undertook the task of faithfully recording Yogananda’s hundreds of lectures, classes, and informal talks — many of which are shared in the book — so that his wisdom and inspiration could be preserved in their original power and purity for generations to come.
The Complete Series
Man’s Eternal Quest
Paramahansa Yogananda explains why and how man was created, how we are immutably a part of the Divine, and what this means to each one personally. Realizing our oneness with the Creator is the whole essence of Yoga. An understanding of our inescapable need for God, in every aspect of living, removes the otherworldliness from religion and makes knowing the Divine the basis of a scientific and practical approach to life.
The Divine Romance
In The Divine Romance, Paramahansa Yogananda speaks to the deepest need of the human soul — to love and feel loved. Yogananda said, “The greatest romance you can have is the romance with God….He is the Lover and our souls are the beloved, and when the soul meets the greatest Lover of the universe, then the eternal romance begins. The love that you have been seeking for incarnations through all human loves is at last yours.”
Journey to Self-realization
Why did God create the world? How can we overcome karma? What is true success and how to achieve it? In Journey to Self-realization Yogananda answers these questions and presents in-depth discussions of a vast range of inspiring and universal truths. Readers will find these talks alive with the unique blend of wisdom, practical encouragement, and love for humanity that have made the author one of our era’s most revered and trusted guides to spiritual life.
Inspiration From the Book
Learning the art of living in this world without giving up the divine image of calmness and joy in which God has created you — that is the mystery of life you have to solve. And that is what Yoga teaches.
When the winter of trials comes, some leaves of life fall away. This is normal. It doesn’t matter. Take it in your stride. Say, “Never mind, summer is coming, and I shall blossom forth again.” God has given inner strength for the tree to survive the harshest winters. You are no less endowed.
In order to hold on to your inner happiness, never find fault with others; learn to blame and correct your own flaws. Be sincere with everyone, express kindness and love to each person. Love is the most powerful force that you can have.
The teachings of all great religions lead toward God; but their varied outer observances are bypaths that must eventually bring the seeker to the one inner highway of meditation.
Know your Self as connected with the Omnipotent Source of your being. Imagine, affirm, will, meditate to realize your true Self as the soul cloaked in a wonderful astral form of light and power.
Solving the Mystery of Life
The fourth volume in the acclaimed anthology series of Paramahansa Yogananda’s "Collected Talks and Essays." This powerful guide presents a vast range of universal truths and inspiring wisdom, offering practical encouragement and love for humanity — qualities that have made Paramahansa Yogananda one of the most revered spiritual authors of our time.
