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After nearly fifty years as president of one of the world’s most respected yoga institutions, Sri Daya Mata is the exemplar of taking meditative yoga to its pinnacle — universal, unconditional love. To someone like myself (raised in the sciences), the concept of “love” for a “personal God” was not a respectable thought until it was shown me (in Autobiography of a Yogi (by Daya Mata’s teacher, Paramahansa Yogananda) ISBN 0876120834 ) how rationality and divine love were both mutually consistent and mutually supportive. Yogananda’s expositions on Kriya Yoga (one expression of the meditative science of raja yoga) make it clear that systematic, scientific practice of proven techniques of clearing the mind and body are of utmost importance in helping one to open and expand the limited human heart. Yogananda’s classical spiritual instruction goes on to describe the importance of developing the “right attitude” in all activities and especially in the practice of one's yoga and meditation. Let this collection of wise and loving insights from Daya Mata serve as an inspiration for you to develop your own personal relationship with the Creator. If at present you find the appeal limited (or the value unclear) of employing personal concepts for drawing closer to the Invisible Infinite, you might appreciate reading Yogananda’s chapter, “Is God Personal or Impersonal?” in his volume Man’s Eternal Quest (ISBN 0876122322 ).