Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries—all living sentient creatures.
Paramahansa Yogananda

The Glowing Kingdom of Your Love
Topic: Love, Compassion, & Kindness
True friendship is broad and inclusive. Selfish attachment to a single individual, excluding all others, inhibits the development of Divine Friendship. Extend all the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including within them your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries; in short, all living sentient creatures.
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)
Hinduism
The Art of Gaining Friends
Yogananda, Paramahansa. The Art of Gaining Friends, Including: Why Love Your Enemies? Inner Culture, 1936.

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Commentary from Swami Kriyananda
In the first two of this series of papers I made several references to this as being a new age. Swami Sri Yukteswar, Paramhansa Yogananda’s guru, stated in his book, The Holy Science, that we entered this age at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Pursuant to the ancient teachings of India, he named it, Dwapara Yuga….
The public, however, gazing on all this confusion, feels bewildered. Is it surprising that people should want to glance back for comfort to traditions that they find at least recognizable? After all, the relativity of time claimed by Einstein hasn’t thrown anyone’s clocks out of kilter. Scientific discoveries haven’t altered any of the fundamental human realities.
What is most notable about modern times is that, on every level of endeavor, human perceptions have been expanding. New windows have been opening out onto the universe. There is a need now to make sense of these new perceptions of reality. We cannot simply reject them. Nor can we continue to embrace them, like adolescents, for their shock value. We must assess the new realities with mature judgment.
First, we must accept the fact that they are indeed new. And we must transcend the fear that true values are being threatened. For Truth is not a house divided. It is no enemy to itself. And self-proclaimed “wisdom” that is not rooted in Truth, however much it may seem sanctioned by tradition, is mere superstition.
In this paper, I shall explain at some length what Sri Yukteswar meant by the new age, and the reasons he gave for his claim that we have entered it. I’ll present facts in support of his statement that could not have been mustered at that time, a century ago, when he made it. For science, then, had yet to make the discoveries that would justify, and that since have justified, his claims…
—Swami Kriyananda [Religion in the New Age].
* [Swami Kriyananda’s Ananda branch of Yogananda’s followers believe that Paramhansa Yogananda is the correct spelling of their teacher’s name. The Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) branch uses the Paramahansa Yogananda spelling. Since this commentary is excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s writings, the Paramhansa Yogananda spelling is used.]—AD
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