Go Deeper: A Study Plan for Learning Meditation

Learn and Practice Meditation

Deepen Your Understanding

Techniques to Enhance Your Practice

Magnify Your Efforts

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Magnify Your Efforts

We greatly reinforce our efforts by devotion and attunement with God and the saints. When we think of them, we draw their spiritual magnetism to us.

• Devotion
• How a Guru Helps Us
• Discipleship

Devotion

• The Secret of Devotion

How a Guru Helps Us
When God sees the devotee striving, first of all he sends him different things that might help him, books, teachings, and so on. When the devotee really becomes sincere, then God draws him to a true guru. Swami Kriyananda

• Why a Guru?
  
• The Spiritual Power of Yogananda
  
• The Guru: How God Guides the Devotee
  
• How to Receive the Guru's Consciousness

Discipleship

• Discipleship Helps Us Attune to Our Higher Self
  
• Discipleship Lessons and Initiation
  Are you interested in becoming a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda? We offer Discipleship Initiation in Part III of the Ananda Course in Self-Realization. However, anyone who wants to deepen his relationship with Paramhansa Yogananda can take the initiation whenever he feels ready.