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Autobiography of a Yogi Superconscious Crossword Welcome to the Autobiography of a Yogi Superconscious Crossword Every puzzle clue is a brief excerpt—with one word missing— from the original, blue-cover Autobiography of a Yogi. (Edi- tions published after Paramhansa Yogananda’s passing might omit or change some of these excerpts.) Simply write the miss- ing word in the appropriate puzzle spaces. Many answers are easy, and even challenging ones are doable because each clue is followed by the number of the chapter where you can find that excerpt. Clues that appear in quotation marks in the book—or are from a poem—are followed by a parenthetical attribution. Clues with no attribution are from the book’s narrative or footnotes. To make reading as easy as possible, many of the clues use one or more abbreviations: • PY for Paramhansa Yogananda • SY for Sri Yukteswar • LM for Lahiri Mahasaya Suggestion: Don’t try to do the puzzle all at once. Whenever you find a clue/answer that inspires you, go meditate on it; the puzzle can wait. When you don’t know an answer, re-read the appropriate chapter to find it, then meditate. Or digitally search an e-copy of the Autobiography—then meditate twice as long. Idea: Do the puzzle with friends. It’s great satsang, and a group can quickly scan a chapter to find an answer. This can stimulate some inspiring discussions! Please share the puzzle with anyone who might be interested: https://www.ExpandingLight.org/puzzle That web page offers two versions of the puzzle: this one (in standard crossword format on the pages that follow), and another version, in which clues are grouped by chapter, so you can solve the puzzle chapter by chapter. May you experience much inspiration, insight, and delight through this puzzle. Joy to you from Ananda! ©Ananda Sangha ACROSS Autobiography of a Yogi Superconscious Crossword 1 The symbol “§” stands for “chapter.” 40 ..... Little mother, thy son will be a yogi. As a spiritual 1 ....... Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name ___, he will carry many souls to God’s kingdom. of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual (LM to PY’s mother) §2 ___. (LM) §33 42 ..... Everyone found in [SY] an equal courtesy and 4 ....... Solve all your problems through ___. (LM) §35 kindness. To a man who has realized himself as a soul, not the body or the ego, the ___ of humanity 7 ....... Conserve your ___. Be like the capacious ocean, assumes a striking similarity of aspect. §12 absorbing within all the tributary rivers of the senses. (SY) §12 45 ..... As I made my way in the midnight darkness, I wondered why the miraculous meeting [PY’s first 14 ..... Faith in the divine protection, and the right ___ of with SY] had ended on an inharmonious note. The man’s God-given will, are forces formidable beyond ___ scales of maya, that balance every joy with a any the “inverted bowl” [astrological influences] grief! §10 can muster. §16 47 ..... As soon as the devotee is willing to go even to the 15 ..... The uplifting obligation to love God is assumed ___ of the earth for spiritual enlightenment, his guru with man’s first breath of an ___ freely bestowed by appears near-by. (Ram Gopal Muzumdar to PY) §13 his only Benefactor. §45 48 ..... Some people try to be tall by cutting off the ___ of 16 ..... Divine love is without condition, without boundary, others! (SY) §12 without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing ___ of pure love. (SY 50 ..... Do not ___ your spiritual ideal on a small to PY) §10 mountain, but hitch it to the star of unqualified divine attainment. If you work hard, you will get 18 ..... In Adam or man, reason predominated; in ___ or there. (Ram Gopal Muzumdar to PY) §13 woman, feeling was ascendant. Thus was expressed the duality or polarity which underlies the 52 ..... Lord, may Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary phenomenal worlds. (SY to PY) §16 of my devotion, and may I be able to ___ that Love in other hearts. (PY) §27 19 ..... ___ admit that you live by the power of food and not by the power of God! (Dyananda to PY) §10 55 ..... ___ and 118-DOWN remain in a heaven of cooperative joy so long as the human mind is 21 ..... “Yogananda” … literally means “bliss (___) through not tricked by the serpentine energy of animal 155-ACROSS divine union ( ) .” §24 propensities. (SY to PY) §16 22 ..... ___ is the greatest cleanser. (SY) §12 56 ..... The deathless Babaji is an avatara. This Sanskrit 23 ..... I own that I have an immovable ___ in God and His word means “descent”; its roots are ___, “down,” goodness, and an unconsumable passion for truth and tri, “to pass.” §33 and love. (Gandhi to PY) §44 57 ..... Because man himself is an expression of the Creative 24 ..... Consulting history, one may reasonably state that Word, ___ has the most potent and immediate the problems of mankind have not been solved by effect on him, offering a way to remembrance of his the ___ of brute force. §44 divine origin. §15 26 ..... During my married life I often yearned for a son, to 59 ..... I was speechless, choked with devotional ___ at ___ in the yogic path. But when you came into my [Babaji’s] presence, and deeply touched to hear life, I was content; in you I have found my son. (SY from his own lips that he had guided me to Sri to PY) §42 Yukteswar. §37 32 ..... It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the 60 ..... So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or tenderness of ___ mothers! (Divine Mother to PY) §2 three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks 36 ..... ___ a little bit of the practice of [Kriya] will save of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the you from dire fears and colossal sufferings. (Babaji ___ of Spirit. (SY to PY) §43 to LM, paraphrasing the Bhagavad Gita) §34 61 ..... Roam in the world as a ___ of self-control; see that 37 ..... The characteristic features of Indian culture have the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around. (SY) long been a search for ultimate verities and the §12 concomitant ___-10-DOWN relationship. §1 62 ..... ___ is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man 38 ..... Yoga enables the devotee to switch off or on, at will, during those instants when his mind is calm. §15 life current from the five sense telephones of sight, 65 ..... Long concentration on the liberating spiritual ___ sound, smell, taste, and touch. Attaining this power has enabled the [God-united] yogi to destroy all of sense-disconnection, the yogi finds it simple to delusions concerning matter and its gravitational ___ his mind at will with divine realms or with the weight; thenceforth he sees the universe as an world of matter. §26 essentially undifferentiated mass of light. §30 2 Autobiography of a Yogi Superconscious Crossword ACROSS 66 ..... Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a 94 ..... A yogi who faithfully follows [Kriya Yoga’s] bundle of flesh and bones, which at ___ is a nest of technique is gradually freed from ___ or the troubles. (LM) §35 universal chain of causation. §26 67 ..... Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a 96 ..... Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary ___ mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ___ of attractiveness to the object of desire. (SY to PY) which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand §12 untouched. (Babaji to SY) §36 99 ..... Everything here is going on well. Through the ___ 68 ..... In deep meditation, the first experience of Spirit is of God, may you ever be in bliss. (SY to PY) §37 on the altar of the ___, and then in the brain. The 101 ... Kriya is your chintamani [a mythological ___ with torrential bliss is overwhelming, but the yogi learns power to grant desires]. (PY to Pratap Chatterji) §11 to control its outward manifestations. §3 102 ... The Kriya Yogi uses his technique to saturate and 71 ..... ___ intelligence is two-edged. It may be used feed all his physical cells with undecaying ___ and constructively or destructively like a knife, either to keep them in a magnetized state. He scientifically cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one’s self. makes breath unnecessary, without producing the (SY) §12 states of subconscious sleep or unconsciousness. 72 ..... [SY’s] ready wit and rollicking laugh enlivened §26 every discussion. Often grave, Master was never 103 ... Words are only shells. Win conviction of God’s ___ gloomy. “To ___ the Lord, one need not disfigure through your own joyous contact in meditation. his face,” he would remark. “Remember that finding (LM) §4 God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.” §12 104 ... Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not 73 ..... Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One the only ___ anything from others, so their actions cannot indispensable is ___. (Mirabai) §7 be in opposition to wishes of mine. (SY to PY) §14 74 ..... Behold, now and always one with the ___, I am ever 106 ... As I tuned myself to [SY’s] nature, I discovered no the same. (Ananda Moyi Ma) §45 diminution but rather increase in my devotional 75 ..... The [Kriya] technique, which as you see is simple, approach to ___. §12 embodies the ___ of quickening man’s spiritual 107 ... Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with evolution.
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