Finding the Joy Within You --- A Review

Anyone can ladle out pabulums. Even a man with a glabrous scalp can offer advice on how to become hirsute, these days. All it takes one to pass oneself off as a past master is to possess the undisguised temerity to help others, and perhaps with a YouTube account, one can even become a Guru.

That is not the case with the author of the book who lived with a highly-exalted saint and sage from her adolescence to the day she left the world. Every word in the work comes from the depth of her experience, and therefore the book reverberates with utter honesty, love and sincerity. Because she lived every word of Paramahasa Yogananda's teachings, in her "Finding the Joy within You" the reader discovers the authentic ways shown by her guru.

Destitute of sesquipedalian prose and grandiose spiritual claims, which are the proverbial characteristics of most otherworldly books, the work gets straight to the point about how to discover one's place with God.

The book is, in fact, a collection of Daya Mata's satsangs that she gave in different part of the world over a period of 20 years.

This is one of the works that one should possess as one cautiously traverses the arduous and formidable terrains of life.