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We are all warmly invited to the six hour meditation this Saturday!

Six-hour Meditation with Kirtan & Energization Exercises in English

Sat Jun 6 2026, 10:40am - 5:00pm AST

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ASTRAL WORLD ~Part 15

How to Materialize Your Dreams

Imagination is a portal through which you can transcend the imposed limitations of this world. All creative persons use this power.

With wisdom and will, whatever you can imagine, and continue to imagine, can become real.

I tell you, that things which do not exist now in this world will be created for you. Imagination can be materialized.

When you develop spiritually, you can materialize your thoughts. When you sit still and let your imagination go as far as you can into the realm of your cherished dreams and goals, and if you can hold your mind to one-pointed concentration on the image of what you want to achieve, it will be shown to you in a true-to-life vision.

And if you apply strong will power to realizing that vision, ultimately it will manifest—healings can be effected, successes attained, disasters in your environment lessened or avoided, seemingly impossible needs or worthy wishes fulfilled.

Your mind united with your soul is such a powerful dynamo of spiritual existence! And yet you don't utilize that power. Why shouldn't you?

By increasing the intensity of your concentration and calmness, you can consciously realize your connection with the unlimited realm of the astral world.

In meditation, when you think you are the calmest you can be, try to be even more calm; gradually your consciousness will become attuned to that higher dimension.

Get out of limiting material consciousness and you will see your mind's imaginings working to manifest all your wisdom-guided dreams through the universal underlying creative astral powers.
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Develop Visualization

To develop mental imaging, I used to sit in a room and concentrate on visualizing everything in another unseen room, until my immediate surroundings disappeared and I was seeing in exact detail everything in the other room.

By practice, develop proficiency in visualization (concentrating the mind's eye on what you wish to achieve) and devisualization (banishing any images that distract from what you are concentrating on).

These powers of imagination—used together with the power of will, power of inner silence, power of concentration and opening of the spiritual eye—will lead you to the astral realm and increased ability to manifest your thoughts in material form.

Such is the power of thought, the Lord's creative principle that brought everything in the universe into manifestation—first as causal ideas of consciousness, then as subtle light-forms in the astral world, and then by materialization of those "blueprints" in the physical world.

(To be continued)

~Paramahansa Yogananda
SRF Magazine Spring/Summer 2010

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