India, May 7 -- "Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now." - Swami Sri Yukteswarji

With these unforgettable words, Swami Sri Yukteswarji emphasized the importance of present spiritual effort in creating positive changes in one's life in the future. A clarion call to put in our best efforts, for, as he succinctly observed: "Finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows." What a glorious promise: a life of joy and bliss, free from sorrow, in the pursuit of God!

Sri Yukteswarji was born Priya Nath Karar, on 10th May 1855 in Srirampur, West Bengal, where his father was a wealthy businessman. Under the tutelage of the great saint of Banaras, Sri Lahiri Mahasaya, he attained the highest spiritual stature of...