Parinama is the gradual transformation. It comes from the inside out, and from the outside in.  When you experience the rising of Consciousness within, you’re being transformed from the inside out.  And when you study, when you’re learning – in these discourses, in my teachings, in books, in yoga texts – you’re being transformed from the outside in.  Your progress toward enlightenment is…

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Close to God“