The Fisherman and the Businessman
By Anonymous

A very rich industrialist was horrified one day to find a fisherman lying lazily beside his boat, smoking a pipe.

"Why aren't you out fishing?" asked the industrialist. "Because I have caught enough fish for the day", said the fisherman.

"Why don't you catch some more?" "What would I do with them?"

"You could earn more money," said the businessman. "With that, you could have a motor attached to your boat and then go into deeper water and catch more fish. Then you would make enough money to buy bigger and better nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would be able to buy one or two more boats, even a fleet of them. Then you would be rich like me!"

"What would I do then?" "Why, then you could really enjoy life."

"What do you think I am doing right now?"

This great law some know, but few put into practice: Continuously think that your body is full of vitality, especially at times when it seems weak, and you will feel strength percolating into your body from the mind. You will start to open a new, secret, invisible source of self-vitalization apart from the external material sources of food, air, and sunlight. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Proper breathing is so important to keep your blood charged with vitality….Learn and practice this method: First, throw out the breath with a strong double exhalation (one short and one long breath). Then, inhale in a double inhalation (one short and one long breath), filling the lungs as full as is comfortable. Hold the air in the lungs for a few seconds, allowing the oxygen to be fully absorbed and converted into prana. Then repeat the double exhalation, followed by the double inhalation. Practice this method in the fresh air 30 times in the morning and 30 times at night. It is very simple. You will be healthier than ever if you follow this. This exercise brings in a great deal of extra life force; and also decarbonizes your blood, promoting calmness. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

The system of Energization Exercises, which I discovered and developed in 1916, is a most beneficial, simple, and nonstrenuous method for recharging the body consciously with life-giving prana. This stimulation and electrification of the tissues, cells, and blood helps to immunize them against disease. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

[The body] is kept dancing with life by forces derived from external sources (food, oxygen, and sunshine); and by vitality (prana) derived from the internal source — Cosmic Consciousness. Without the life forces and consciousness from the inner soul source, the external sources of bodily energy are of no avail in maintaining life in the body. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

When you see from a hilltop how beautiful are the twinkling lights of a city, you forget that it is the dynamo that is providing the electricity to illumine the bulbs. So when you see the sparkling vitality of human beings, but you do not know what is enlivening them, then you are spiritually blind. That Power, even though unseen, is very evident. It is all the time playing hide-and-seek behind our thoughts. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Whether man acknowledges God or not, the truth is that our very existence from moment to moment depends on the life and vitality and intelligence that constantly flows from the unseen Divine Source.” - Sri Daya Mata.