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 Yogananda's Legacy  for the World

and the Restored Gospels of Jesus

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               It was Paramahansa Yogananda who not only made a great contribution to the restoration the ancient teachings of Jesus Christ and Kriya Yoga to the world, but according to many recent witnesses He personally lived that Christ like life in every aspect. I have not heard of a greater modern Living Prophet!
This blog will present some aspects of Yogananda's Legacy for the world as it is known by His Self-Realization Fellowship.

With greatest clarity and insight  He shows us the way to transform our lives through regular practice of Self-Realization Fellowship Study Lessons... and other important Yogananda wisdom writings. The Science of Kriya Yoga from YSS/SRF will help you reach your greatest potential in this life.  With increasing Mind Awareness and Happiness along the way. Go for it !

This Master's life example and works are transforming/enriching the lives of millions through Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS home lessons and publications. They come with ongoing personal counselling and personal instructions/initiations by SRF monastics.
Since Yogananda's passing in March 1952  Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS has experienced continued growth and open-
minded progressive development in many areas. Contrary to negative comments by competitors, SRF/YSS is moving forward with great and enlightened leadership.

This is not an official SRF/YSS site.

= More links about Kriya Yoga =

kriyayogatoday.blogspot.ca

London on Meditation Circle of SRF/YSS

The successful Launching of a Modern Spiritual Legacy - Biography of Yogananda

Yogananda SRF devotees Spiritual forum

Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons on the advanced kriya yoga meditation & lifestyle.


SRF/YSS has succeeded in successfully, accurately, and
reliably publishing the major portion of the
Master's great legacy in written, audio, 
and video formats.
 His newest orange covered 
editions of the
 "Autobiography of a Yogi" are still 
appearing on best seller lists.[Spain 2011].
These Self-Realization Fellowship orange covered editions
still radiate with the power of Yogananda's light and love!

All other bootleg editions of the 1946 Autobiography are incomplete & out of date with the masters wishes[including Kindle 1946 editions].
 

 These are the scientifically proven and time tested methods 
that Jesus and Krishna 
privately taught to their disciples in ages past. 

  This is what was never written by Jesus's
  apostles following the master's
 instructions.
JC said "Hearing they do not hear, 
seeing they cannot see,...so I speak to
them in Parables" pp

The lives of many true saints of this path are are
a living testimony to the validity and quality
of this new global spiritual dispensation.
SRF is not a cult or a new age teaching.
SRF is not a subsect or offshoot of any other faith,
as it contains the essence of all major faiths.

Do not be misled by theories of "only one way"
or "progressive revelation" claims.
 

Gospel writings & teachings have suffered many 
distortions for political, cultural, personal and other 
reasons  for so many centuries, leaving the average
believer with faulty understandings of the Real
nature and presence of the real "First Christ."
This universal "Christ Consciousness" was known long
before the time of Jesus as "Kristos" for the Greeks 
"Kutustha Caitanya" or "Krishna consciousness" for Hindus.
In the 19th century a number of savants and 
healers in the East and the West began significant 
spiritual movements to popularize the more
accurate picture of ancient teachings of the
 formless Christ consciousness, Pluralism,
transcendentalism, 
and self transformation.

This early work in India and America has been
further clarified and demonstrated in the
lives of a number of  persons such as the Fillmores,
M Curtis Hopkins, Earnest Holmes, Emmet Fox,
and many others of the New Thought Alliance.
 But it was Paramahansa Yogananda 
who brought
from India the advanced methodology of  Kriya Yoga
techniques and of his own life example.
He founded the 
non-sectarian  society of the
Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Sat Sangha.
This legacy, is a major global dispensation that
 is clearly changing the direction spiritual thinking in  Western and global civilization. 

That same "Consciousness of the Christ"
was fully manifested in the 
lives of many other 
saviors/Gurus from various cultures since the world began. 
Open up your mind to these new and enlightening healing self-transformative concepts.
One will not make serious progress spiritually until one
can go beyond the dark programming of ones cultural
religious  heritage. Which more or less teaches you 
popular ideas of the "many". 

Remember always, Yogananda's teaching of 
this "universal Christ Consciousness"  does not
contradict the Bible, even though it may seem to
contradict your personal interpretation and
religious programming of  said scriptures.
If your education and programming was done
solely by academics and clergy, you may have
some serious work to do on reprogramming yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda said; Do you see how much the church movement needs reformation? They expect people  to follow religion by proxy. But truth has to be lived,  it has to be Realized as part of ones being."
[Page 239, Journey to Self Realization, SRF Publishers LA USA.]

The most important missionary
duty you will ever have is changing yourself! 
Free yourself  from the "One Way Trap." 

One of the cultural deficits that originated with
the writings of the first gospels was the tradition
of secrecy that allowed writers to give only a hint
of the means and methods of becoming like a Christ.
Jesus said that the public should be taught in
"Parables", as they could not understand deeper issues.
His apostles followed this tradition by leaving out
most of the esoteric methodology for achieving that
higher consciousness. All of this missing data is
now being unveiled by the Holy Spirit through
Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship.
These advanced concepts of Pluralism and
Kriya Yoga, and the accurate teachings of
Christ Consciousness
that were taught to the original apostles in private by Jesus. 

The earth is no longer flat, 
The sun does not revolve around the earth.
The earth 
is no longer six thousand years old.
We have many,many, lifetimes on this planet.
We are not the puppets of a cosmic dictator.
No Single Prophet, Faith, sect, or Holy Book
is some God's "only way" or final word on truth.

That " Only One Way" chant is now a dying
myth 
in today's better informed world.

Even if you deem your favorite sacred writ to 
be
 divinely inspired or inerrant, that's the lesser problem.
Your 
greater problem is your programmed personal misinterpretation of  scripture. Your own interpretation will change over time - what then?

Which one of the many interpretations is correct
is not always so easy to know. Are you aware
that most of what you believe is not the teaching
of great souls, but the legal edicts of Roman
politicians [
emperors] who were aware that
religion was a great way to control the masses.
All of that false intel is now programmed into your genes!
Free Yourself with Kriya Yoga Meditation ! 

The Self Realization Fellowship/YSS, to whom
Paramahansa Yogananda gave full authority
and copyright over his legacy and teachings, 
and through which the spiritual blessings
& personal guidance of the masters still richly flows, 
 maintains the devotion and fidelity of Master's wisdom and Yogananda's teachings for the world. 

Yogananda is a "Living Prophet." Those who seek lesser teachers teachers will primarily look for a body.
They will be also looking for someone who
will give them a position or praise as a
lesser teacher long before they are ready - this is an Ego trap.  
 A true Guru 
will teach you how to become really free
of all of your limited 
programming, and teaches
a non-sectarian universal
way of relating in harmony with all our relationships. 

 

Blog posts : "Spirituality"

. ..WHO RESTORED THE TEACHINGS .of. Jesus the Christ ????

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......
 

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

Did you know ; that there are now at least 21 different
gospels written long ago about Jesus the Christ .

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......
 

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......
  http://pickii.com/p/second-coming-christ-resurrection-within-you-2/ 

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......
  http://pickii.com/p/second-coming-christ-resurrection-within-you-2/ 

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....
There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.  Yogananda reading TNT

by Paramahansa Yogananda

published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004

The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!

 Free Meditation Instructions online at www.yogananda-srf.org

What did Jesus really say privately and publicly in Judea?

Review by PYislove  [Federico Parente ]

The Second Coming of Christ;
              Resurrecting the Christ within you. "


Yogananda's soul enlightening commentary "The Second Coming of Christ,"    is a long awaited literary spiritual masterpiece from Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers.[released Sept 2004].
 This new global spiritual revelation/scripture is destined to reshape the worlds view of many religious/spiritual concepts. As it dissolves dogmatic barriers it will greatly aid in bringing about a true Brotherhood of Humanity, a real religious tolerance and ecumenicism, and accelerate the higher spiritual awareness that Self-Realization Fellowship has been inspiring in the world since Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the West almost a century ago.

In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.
You will find that Yogananda's Gospel commentary is at least equal to if not superior to anything written recently on this subject, and most of all, it is uniquely a most enlightened new scripture that will give spiritual seekers and scholars alike a new and inspiring sources to draw from when comparing various classical world scriptures. This Scripture takes one far beyond the cerebral academic notes of many other documents issued for past centuries, perhaps millenniums. 

 There are several reasons that make this work especially qualified to accurately represent the real teachings of Jesus the Christ.

One of the most remarkable testimonials comes from the following reliable source;

Bro. Anandamoy said in a Yoga Journal Interview:

YJ; "
   You were with Paramahansa Yogananda at his retreat in the desert when he was writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Can you tell us what that was like? "

Br A: "   It's very hard to convey. It was for me a spiritual experience—and you cannot describe a spiritual experience with language, because language is based on sense perception. I can only say that when I went into the room where he was working, the presence of God was so tangible that it was to me like stepping into God Himself. That divine vibration filled the whole room, and clearly flowed through the Master. Whereas a scholar might pause to consider how he wanted to interpret an idea, Paramahansaji didn't need to stop and think about what to say. He just went on hour after hour—without interruption, without pause, sometimes far into the night. It was obvious that he was in a deep state of God-communion, and that he was receiving his inspiration
directly from God.

"   I remember on one occasion, his secretary stopped typing and said, "Sir, the word   you just used does not exist in the English language."   The Master turned to her and said, "  Yes it does. Look it up in the dictionary." "Sir, it's not here."    "Then that dictionary is no good," he replied. "Look in another one."    She searched for the word in a second dictionary, but it was not there either. So he again told her to look in another dictionary. She left the room and came back with two more dictionaries—bigger ones—and set them down on the floor. The third one did not have it, but the fourth one, the biggest one, did. "You see,"   he said, "if the word didn't exist, God would not have given it to me." Then he asked not to be interrupted anymore. "We have important work to do,"   he said.

"   So you see, this was not an intellectual interpretation, "  man-made"    so to speak, based on one man's thought about what life was all about. This was truth, straight from God...

"   Part of his mission was to interpret the scriptures of East and West—specifically, the Gita, which is the
essence of the Vedas and the Upanishads, and certain parts of the Christian Bible, namely the Gospels and some passages of Revelation and Genesis—and show that their teachings are fundamentally the same. He said, "   In their underlying unity, all true scriptures reveal the same truths. . . . The seeming differences of revelations are on the surface merely, caused by the racial and environmental influences surrounding the prophets. Each one is singing his own hymn of the same one Infinite. "    E N D >>>>>>

(Bro. A talking about the Gita in
Yoga Journal)

"    Yogananda also said in the introduction to SCC that He did not write this, He was only the instrument. It came directly from Christ.  "
 

When you read/study this new and sacred scripture, you may then see why it stands out and restores truth.
Then compare this work with others and you should see the difference!


(a)The author Himself actually lived the life described in these gospels- Paramahansa Yogananda was a modern Christ in every regard. If one cannot see this in the Second Coming book, this fact can be further verified through a couple of more years study of the Masters life and other teachings. Plus when this book was released there were still a few living witnesses to His divine stature. And for the future, many have written of their experiences with this great Master. He was and still is a " living Master."

(b)Yogananda goes far beyond other academics/clergy and theologians. He not only gives a spiritually potent and convincing explanations of Jesus teachings and the spiritual life, but also the fullest and clearest self-trans-formative teaching on how to reach that high state of Self-realization. He takes you on the actual journey and explains every step of the way. You would not get more or better instruction even if you were in the presence of another physical teacher. Keep in mind here, that a teacher living in a body , unless
God-Realized, is not a living Master or Guru. He like most of us is still spiritually dead.


(c)The proof and value of the extensive spiritual instructions you will find in the second coming [and other works by Yogananda] have already been effectively verified by Yogananda's divine lineage and many successor disciples and devotees - it works!

 


(d)His approach that he is not attempting to prove the authenticity and factualness of the Early Gospels [see Page 69] is very telling of His foresight and wisdom. This very area, is where many embarrassed and presumptuous writers previously made their first mistake. Assuming that everything in writing is the unadulterated "  word of God."  
This intelligent caution alone sets him apart and speaks to his humility.
His work also avoids another great error, taking everything literally..........


(e)He uses the mystical path of Yoga Sciences and Vedic spiritual wisdom as the background to share with us the inner/fuller meanings and purposes of Jesus the Christ's teachings and mission. Whereas various other commentators on these same documents have been attempting to show the origins of many Gospel passages as originating only in Buddhistic and Egyptian traditions.

(f)The value and veracity of a true revelatory spiritual message rests in part upon its useful and original ideas and answers for the spiritual seeker. Here Yogananda gives us a cornucopia of valuable and refreshingly original approaches to many of the heretofore mysteries of the bible. He fills in a lot of the blanks that were left when other writers on these subjects attempted to come up with similar concepts.
One can clearly see herein the difference between previous "  attempts"   to explain subtle matters and Yogananda's finished product. These commentaries are not a product of the Intellect, but a direct transmission of wisdom from the Reality of Christ Consciousness.

(g) And above all, the author avoids the greatest of all pitfalls so many others got tripped up on - the true meaning of Christ's second coming! You will find in the gospels that the reason why Jesus says "no man can know the day or the hour of his return" , is simply because he will not be making a public earth shaking second public appearance. Something that Prophets/saviors never do, and with good reason. His actual second coming occurs only in the lives of those who become one with Him as Christ consciousness or God and is happening to a few souls continually from all faiths. This process is fairly well explained in the Gospels themselves, and clarified beautifully by Paramahansa Yogananda with a great deal of evidence.

All others who have attempted to claim the popular idea of a world shaking celebrity public return have ended up looking like fools and frauds. They were all still lost in popular dogmatic belief systems left over from the times when Rome was calling the shots. Many of todays church beliefs were not divinely inspired, but actually political decisions to control others. Yogananda instead supports His universal "Christ Consciousness" concept with ample evidence and conviction, freeing all seekers and faithful from the blind opportunism that has victimized them in the past by the popular doomsday Jesus returning concepts. The pretense by so many false teachers and clergy that they knew when Jesus would return is one of the main claims used by power seeking persons who like to impress the naive believers to gain large followings.
Such persons are the ones that the scriptures warn us about - " False Prophets."

It gives credit to this Gurus way of returning the power from blind leaders to the individual devotee. It further demonstrates how obedience to the Master results in the greatest freedom, self-empowerment, and god-realization for all who make the effort using the right means. Then one becomes truly free. Free from so many old habits, addictions, and bad programming and institution misdirection.

This work thus truly represents the Jesus of Judean times, and shares with us His inner teachings that were given to the Apostles in private. Before time, men, and politics distorted and/or lost so much of the beautiful wisdom that Jesus taught back then. And much that was also kept so secretive, as was required in the mystical customs of those ancient days.

It is truly fitting that after the attempts of so many other well meaning but ineffectual claims of other prophets who claimed credit for themselves restoring Jesus true teachings, it is a Yogi prophet from India [where Jesus spent almost half of his life] who is able to finally reveal the true light and clarity of that ancient and sacred teaching. A light that has already given new hope to millions of spiritual seekers around the globe for the last hundred and fifty years.

This book tells us about some of Jesus amazing connections with India that have been verified through history.

It goes into great detail on spiritual practice, wisdom, and healing,  also the Master -Disciple relationship as the door to heaven before death, and the value of the spiritual life to the fulfillment of ones happiness and every other noble goal of life. The author presents a universal teaching that persons of all faiths will greatly benefit from, even without changing their own faith. This is literally the Science of Religion.

See more reviews on this great book at ;
Amazon.com,  or......
  http://pickii.com/p/second-coming-christ-resurrection-within-you-2/ 

Further Reading: 
to understand Yogananda's ground breaking
 concept of the true "   Christ Consciousness  "
"    and the only begotten Son,"  please read
The Yoga of Jesus "   
                             By SRF Publishers LA USA.
In particular pages No, 7 and  65. for starters....There are so many persons who think they are
witnessing for Christ and eternal life
without a clue to
 what or who this really means.
This will create a great change in your understanding of this matter!
NOW is the time to begin your reprogramming towards greater truth.... 



                 What is Self-Realization?.....

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us that;
       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

 

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         ***The  Avatar ***

"O Bharata (Arjuna) Whenever virtue (dharma) Declines
and vice (adharma) predominates, I incarnate as an Avatar.
In visible form I appear from age to age to
protect the virtuous

 and destroy evildoing in order to reestablish righteousness."

From "God Talks with Arjuna" by Paramahansa Yogananda
SRF Publishers LA USA, 1994 (a Gita Commentary by).

The Avatar is the great soul who reached God-Realization in a previous
lifetime, and voluntarily returns to human form to fill
a special role in
humanities evolutionary process.
Because
the consciousness & stature of such soul is so much more
advanced than
His peers in general, such a one is not so easily recognized
by the masses of people who are still restricted by their cultural and
religious programming. Yet there are so many devotees
of regular
teachers that imagine their own teacher is " 
the one"   or the only avatar
of a certain age. Most of
these claims are merely wishful thinking.
Just as so many
churches vainly claim
                                     that their truth is the"  only real truth."

If you should ever here of ten athletes each claiming they
all came in first in the same race - you will know that they
are all confused about something! Even the ability to
recognize such a "Great One"  is no small/simple task.
Such souls come on earth very rarely and are even
beyond the development of most of our great saints.
Like the unfathomable vastness of all the universes in
outer space, so is the full stature of an avatar beyond
normal human comprehension.
In the Bhagavad Gita the Avatar/Savior Krishna said," 
     " Whosoever, freed from delusion, knows me
as the
Supreme Spirit, Knows All, O descendant
of Bharata.
(Arjuna). He worships me with his
whole being. "

"From "God Talks With Arjuna, SRF Publishers, LA, USA

It is this phrase," Freed from delusion", which
refers to my oft repeated theme on these pages
about becoming free from our many illusions,
especially the delusion that the relative world is real.
Yet even before this happens we must be free from
the negative and erroneous aspects of our religious
and cultural programming as well as the greater
challenge of seeing the world as it really is.

The role of an Avatar/ prophet/Savior being
to raise the consciousness of a localized part,
or a much
broader cross section of humanity
may leave one wondering at times if a certain
individual could
possibly be in such a high
spiritual consciousness to serve in this role.


This is a most difficult area to understand in religions,
as we are used to seeing
in the lives of most great spiritual
beings such divinely manifested
qualities that one should
strive for.

However, it seems that there have been times in
world history
when the prophet was to play a role
that from some aspects
may appear unbecoming
[in certain regards]
of what one would expect to
see in the life of an avatar.

In the cases of both Moses and Mohamed for
example we have a record of great leaders
who
at times condoned/practiced certain types of
violence and seemingly unspiritual/coarse acts.
Their flocks simply were not ready for a higher
level of teaching, and had to be brought forward
a bit from where they were, with a fear mongering
God and many narrow rigid rules.
One can[unless programmed] easily look at that
history and find it wanting/different, but that was
then and this is now.
There are some persons within those groups who
are doing heroic work
at great risk in that difficult
process of reformation .


Some of this may have been done the way it was done because
of the ways of the cultures
they were addressing, and the very
situations those cultures were entrenched in at that somewhat
not so opportune time the Prophet needed to play His role.
Thus He was required to work within those entrenched parameters.
Looking back in time from today's world as we see it with the
available data, with different cultural eyes, too many of these
situations may raise a lot of uncomfortable questions[except
for the clergy who would rather not ask too many questions].

 I will not go into details at this time, as the ancient
and modern
history of all these matters are available
for all to read
  from various sources.


Yet, if a situation required even a great soul to play a part for the
sake of those who
had to be raised up from crude beginnings as
a civilized community, that part he/she played as the will of God.


The very unfortunate aspects of such situations are that since
in reality the religious world
is so rife with fanatics and con
artists of every stripe and style, the above explanation
I just
shared could easily be mistaken as a pass or exception for
certain misdeeds/conflicts by power seeking teachers.


This is where very profound and intuitive spiritual
discrimination comes into the picture.
An intuitive awareness developed by a great deal of
Meditation and spiritually healthy living.
It is very difficult for most persons to be able to tell
what the true status of a proclaimed teacher really is.
Too many persons are influenced by charisma and crowd
excitation, as well as their own innocent hopes and programming.
To be able to tell the difference between a live and a living Guru,
also the levels and values of different teachings can be so easily
misleading to the seeker,
especially when the novice seeker
is trying to find his/her way though this complex subject.
The greatest blessing in todays' world is the convenient availability
of  so much data. Don't let this opportunity pass you by, keep seeking!
Take your time to digest all these new insights, while deeply meditating.

In this area there are so many hidden "  traps" ,  and many
get caught in them while looking through the dark glasses
of ones karmic disposition and programming disabilities.
So much egoic wishful thinking takes place that makes it
appear one has found the perfect way or teacher. Maybe?
And maybe what you have found is the only way for you.
That may very well work. It may take a lifetime to really know.
Just keep in mind - that "  
one way"   is the"  wrong way."

Hopefully one will eventually find either what one is really looking
for[that can be anything],
or one will find the clear and sure
direction of the better way to truly advance
in the way one can
best understand the path. This will be a little different for

different personality groups with differing needs.

If in ones spiritual search a person ends up in any
faith/Path believing that all persons must
also follow
the way yo
  u have attached yourself to, thinking it is the
"ONLY WAY " for all persons
-you can be sure of three things.

First, you have not gone forwards, but merely sideways with
different names and forms to worship.
  Second, you are still severely entrenched in popular programming that essentially keeps most persons in the most limiting views of God an mans evolutionary directions.
     Third, You will surely be a long time even understanding your own faith.

The basis of some great misunderstandings amongst orthodox
religionists in this matter stems from misreading motives and

the misunderstanding of the Prophets exercise of "  lineage closure".
Statements of closure made by various prophets such
as ---

 Jesus saying "  Many shall come in my name saying,
" I am He"   look here or look there "..."believe them not."

who also said "I am the way the truth and the light, no one comes to the father except through me? "John 14;  This oft quoted out of context piece of misunderstood script will only make sense if one reads a few verses further down the page "  It is not I that am speaking - but the father that does all these works." This context  now changes the  meaning of it all! Jesus never was and is not the only way for all persons in the world! Only for those who are destined to be his personal devotees is He the only way. For those of other faiths - they too have their own true saviors.
---or as Muhammad "  Allah  will never send a new prophet or religion to this earth after this,"
Re the Hadith-from Muhammads' last lecture. [ how is it that so many great prophets have succeeded Muhammad eg Sankara, Lahiri Mahasaya, Paramahansa Yogananda, etc, etc .
---or as Bahaullah"  If any person claims to be a prophet of God within the expiration
of one thousand years. Know that person to be  fraud, and if such a person does not
recant His claim, great will be the punishment awaiting him."
From Gleanings [last page]. And along came other great ones.

---Or  as 10th Guru of the Sikhs,  Gobind Singh , saying there
would not be any more gurus in that lineage.

---or as Paramahansa Yogananda,  who said there would be
no more "Gurus" succeeding Him in His branch of the
Sacred
lineage of the Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS tradition
in the lineage of Mahavatar Babaji. Yogananda also took this
a bit further by warning us about the unreliability of the various
Psychics who in the future would claim they are getting all kinds
of messages from Him for the world etc. And so it is happening.
Misreading of motives is another problem - if you are dealing with
a great soul/prophet, such a one would not be looking for the
monopolies or status that ego based individuals would seek.
Not in the bigger picture. So claims to exclusivity are minor
in these [ if non-existent ] in these noted statements of closure.
Giving them an absolute and literal interpretation will often
contradict history and common sense.

Keep in mind that such statements were also used as
political tools to control the masses by power hungry
authorities and wannabe teachers. Beware the clergy!


There is also the matter of errors in more ancient documents,
even your favorite "God" may not always eliminate human
error in written and translated documents. 
Whose translation are you going to interpret?
What will your own interpretation be 25 years from now?
Our perspectives and associations are always changing/evolving!


There are several things going on here, and although from one point of view it appears that many of these comments are claims to exclusivity, it is not so. These
statements were originally intended  words of protection, direction, and caution for the faithful.
 Initially, because of the restless nature of many devotees, the leader /prophet must make some clear statement to protect His earnest followers from becoming distracted by the many, many, copy-cat charlatans who always inevitably attempt to duplicate or even hijack the masters work as soon as He leaves the earthly visible scene . The securing of the legacy itself is also an important consideration in this process of "   closure" .  It seals the work so that it will be free from misuse for some future period and not diluted by too many other opinions by the founders successors and/or competitors. There are exceptions to this when the founder is succeeded by great souls of God-Realization. Such persons with egos subdued are now concerned about becoming famous etc.          
Hopefully if the devotees are listening to Him and not every opportunist out there,  they would not be looking for the comforting hand holding from dead gurus who are still living in this world. Many of whom will vainly claim some unique and/or exclusive position of authority as the true successor of  so and so. But people being as they are, seeking with such innocence, hope and trust, really eat this up. It must be a side effect of the unreal /relative world called "MAYA."

Closure also aids in keeping some limits on the sheer quantity of Holy Writ, which seems to become rather voluminous when dealing with some prolific writers. When one understands that these writings can often be very profound and subtle in their meanings. Even in the plainest language writings of many pages become difficult for the mind to coordinate and remember. If you add to this the writings of too many leaders in a single movement [NRM] confusion and contradiction may eventually seem to result. END

 

"  Now we see through a glass darkly,

   Then we will see face to face." KJV

 The key to watch for here is the word "Then".
The term "then" is not just when you join a Church ?
and praise a God or a Savior, it is when you greatly
change yourself and become Self-Realized as did
history's greatest saints and Yogis. This is exactly
what Lord Krishna said in an earlier quote above -
"   being freed from delusion."
In the meantime regular meditation etc will gradually improve
your intuition and your spiritual discrimination - the polishing
of that direct link to divine wisdom and attunement.

To become free of this problem popular belief requires
the breaking free of false knowledge,
with which every
human being has been programmed no matter what
your faith, culture, or status [with the exception of the
Great Ones- those who are God-realized, these are persons
who in this or other lifetimes have succeeded in breaking
through the darkness of popular belief systems and have
clearly penentrated to the core of Reality{the true God}
].
Such persons are the Saviors of the world and sometimes
great religious or spiritual movements are founded on
their lives and works/teachings by followers.
We all have to understand that this is the initial
challenge
for every human being, every seeker and devotee.
This step is the matrix to realizing that the world as
we see it/know it through the senses is also "  not real."
Thus this material world is known as the world of Relativity.
Recognizing and understanding the very existence of this
endemic problem and working ones way out of
it is a major
first step on any progressive spiritual path/search.
Joining
another church or cult with all its euphoria
may temporarily excite you, but the real change can
only come if you have true divine leadership/guidance
through which you can change yourself. Missionary zeal
is the deadweight to spiritual progress -change yourself.
Going sideways is not the same as going forward!
Beware of those who assume to know how to save you if they do
not first realize their own innate predicament in this regard.
And have at least gone past much of this problem of delusion.
"The blind cannot lead the blind." Yet in the world of persons,
this seems to be a main position adopted by most well meaning
evangelists and missionaries and other unrealized teachers.
Things have not changed very much - these are the modern Pharisees.

 Some dispensations were meant to bring various cultures to higher
lessons of life and appear more universal in their teachings and
may never seem out of date, whereas other dispensations were for
timely local purposes to serve certain cultures/races in their
social/spiritual baby steps. All have some enduring principles
that are eternal in their application to human life mixed in with
their topical social rules. Then we also have the fact that so many
teachings/ideas/writings can get changed [even politicized]
along the way. One cannot begin to really progress spiritually
if one imagines that keeping on with popular traditions alone
will lead to any kind of immortality/salvation/truth.
Popular ideas are generally of the very lowest quality.
Whether in area of food, religion, entertainment etc.
Usually promising  some degree of truth, salvation, security,
and rewards which they really have no power to give to any one.

Or perhaps it is also a matter of  "  taking the sugar and throwing the sand away,"    as the Master said. Not always easy to know what is no longer relevant when one is trying to prove to the rest of the world that ones book is the most perfect one in the world.[that alone is a non-starter]. You will obviously have to spend more time understanding the whole picture to see all parts as really being the same elephant! [In reference to a story told by the Master "  5 blind boys and the elephant "]

Whereas the former type of dispensations - such as came
via Krishna, Jesus, Shankara, Buddha, Yogananda,
and the
greatest mystics of various faiths represent a
pluralism with more mystical teaching on prayer and
meditation, the subtler aspect of the spiritual life in
greater detail, few social and material rules[less politics],

and a God of Love and forgiveness.
This level of dispensation is for more universal application
for the long term and can truly be applied to all
serious seekers regardless of nationality, culture and faith.
This level of teaching when properly
applied and
understood will show more freedom from politics and fear.
This level of spirituality gives one true empowerment.

Those other popular teachings will be full of harsh rules for social
and material living, God fearing threats and the most rigid
codes imaginable. Such teachings will need major reforming
to meet the needs of to-days world, and those who were
telling
everyone else to
change to their way may themselves be in
the greatest need to change.  Many people are now seeing Reality
in a different light, reading old writ with new eyes. Eyes that see
more clearly that than those eyes programmed by theological systems.

The best truism for serious religionists is to confine their exclusive
claims to their personal needs. Saying that their chosen path is the
only way for themselves. Beyond that there is great danger to all.
The tail is wagging the dog!

Reminds me of a marriage in trouble, each person thinks
it is the other
who should do the changing to make things right.
The great conflicts in the world
of religion will not abate until
we all start looking within to solve these problems.

Pluralism would be a great first step for all Middle-eastern
originating faiths to
subscribe to, it may even make a great
contribution to world peace.


Only those who are God-realized have the right to suggest
others to be like them, even follow them!
They are in the best position to show us the way.

And such great ones never use force [as policy]
to persuade the world of their wisdom.


Namste, PYisLove..IMHO


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Community,The Devotee's Dilemma.

Community,
The Devotee's Dilemma.

by PYisLove

The Great One has said, "

"If you contact God within yourself, you will know that He is in everyone, that He has become the children of all races. Then you cannot be an enemy to anyone. If the whole world could love with that universal love, there would be no need for men to arm themselves against one another. By our own Christlike example we must bring unity among all religions, all nations, all races. "

— Paramahansa Yogananda in Man’s Eternal Quest


"Wherever different minds meet in the spirit of fellowship, there we find a great harmony, peace, happiness, understanding, and cooperation in life’s activities. With so many troubles plaguing this earth of ours...never before was there a greater necessity for peace than now." From talks by Paramahansa Yogananda -" A world without boundaries"

How does one participate in the world without becoming entangled,
misdire
cted, and falsely programmed by its popular and complex ways?
Can one extricate oneself from this mayic labyrinth while still
participating in the daily activities of the world? Yoga is the way!

One of the great tests of any inspired spiritual programme/method/dispensation
is its ability to work for you under any and every possible situation in this world
without doing harm to others, or yourself!
It should increase your creativity and self-empowerment, your sense of being
healthy and whole, expand your consciousness, awareness and Self-realization.

To really understand your faith, it helps to know how things really work......
Self-deception has got to go.

There are two primal & powerfully deep needs that must be met during our human journey through the many lifetimes we spend on this planet - maintaining/sustaining our sense of individuality - and fulfilling the need to belong/to experience community. Unless both of these aspects of human nature are addressed and supported, balanced growth may elude the spiritual aspirant/seeker of truth. Such unbalances, if not corrected, will lead one at times away from truth, going in unrewarding circles. There may in truth actually be an eternity to reach your goal - but how long do you want to wander aimlessly? Even though it is often said that getting there is half the fun, at some point one surely wants to know they are really moving forward.

Community is more than just an organization.
Community is the loyal/loving participation of faith and
interacting with other parts of your own vast essence who
appear as other beings and objects in this relative world,
for we are
not even separate beings at all.
This is the field
upon which we work out and create our karma.
Upon this complex field of human experience we eventually
come
to learn that the golden rule is not about someone else,
it is about how we interact with other aspects/areas of our own
spiritual being. Community can be experienced without
becoming a member of a spiritual commune.
The master put that idea on hold - are you listening?


Community should be looked upon as ones greater Self,
a real extension of your own unlimited living consciousness.
Spiritually, properly participated in, Community can be
a powerful aid in ones Sadhana, a catalyst to accelerated growth.
An essential aspect of one's experiencing on this divine
Self-Realization Fellowship Kriya Yoga path.
Yogananda has often described using our relationships with family,
community, and nations, as an experiential practice of expanding
our limited ego consciousness into infinite Christ Consciousness.
This Consciousness which was so fully expressed in the lives of
"the Great Ones" - Jesus, Krishna, socrates, Adi  Shankara, Babaji,
Paramahansa Yogananda and many others.


Combined with the devoted regular practices which
devotees are encouraged to do, some kind of
Community experience at some level will keep our
development balanced, healthy and moving forward.
A valid deterrent to fanaticism and tunnel vision.
This can begin essentially with attending your local meditation group/circle or center. Supporting/assisting the way you believe in any way you can, either alone or together
with other devotees as well. Just being there will enrich your
inner spiritual  life and
outer relationships greatly.
I have seen so much growth, good, and healing take place in the lives of persons who do so.
Lives I have had the privilege of observing over a period of time.

The greatest problems in isolated communities stem from politics and other negative human
reactions. The best leaders are those who are secure, mature, competent and who do not
seek power over others just to be powerful. Such a person wishes to serve all.

Paramahansa Yogananda, a living truly modern God-Realized Yogi/prophet, must be credited for giving us some of spiritual history's clearest and most vivid teachings about the real "Christ, Kristos, Kristna, Kutustha Caitanya etc" as actually meaning a universal principle of infinite consciousness, rather than simply an exclusive personality vaguely  recorded in world history [according to the common popular teachings on this subject.] That exclusive orthodox concept was created in circa 325 AD & 381 AD for political reasons/purposes and has little to do with the intended teachings of scripture.
Instead, Yogananda has presented us not only with outstanding academic evidence of the true meaning of "God's only begotten Son," but above all the full demonstration of this consciousness from his own life and works. [read more about this whole metter in "The Yoga of Jesus" from SRF Publishers LA USA.
  H
is living legacy is clearly changing Americas [and the worlds] religious outlook and evolutionary momentum. The Master, Paramahansa Yogananda, founded  Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS for the distinct purpose of carrying on this living legacy to enhance and accelerate mankind's evolution. Through continuing excellence and wise spiritual leadership by the Self-Realization Fellowship - this legacy is enhancing the lives of millions worldwide. No particular path is/was ever meant for everyone, but for those who have really made SRF their path, there are many positive results reported.
 The Master shares with us every possible aid and means available to attain Self-Realization/salvation, for the sincere/enthusiastic devotee who is beginning to truly understand the purpose and direction of our existence and the nature of Reality -God.

And the way to know our true Selves as that Reality in which we are all one.
Not metaphorically-but in actuality. Kriya yoga is a powerful way!

This is  an important matter for all Devotees to think about, as many of us arrived here on this wonderful path after a long independent singular search[recently or in a past life] which has left
us rather leaning to a shyness of organizations/groups. Now that we have been introduced to a truer direction for our spiritual lives with discipline and grace, it should be safe to also rediscover that greater part of ourselves that we are blessed with knowing through our meditations and other spiritual practices. The problem earlier was one of an unbalance in the way of community, depending too much on unrealized authority figures to guide us. Now, with the sure guidance of a true Guru it is a good time to work with Him and His great Community which does not separate itself from the larger community of persons with varied beliefs and cultures.

Sometimes there are periods of our lives wherein we must be left to our own resources to mature on this path seemingly without too much influence of other devotees. It is the process of finding ourselves, of maturing and fulfilling our personal Karma, while coming to our own understanding of our relationship with the great saviors of this path. So one might be located where it is difficult to associate with other devotees in groups. This too is for the development of the individuality of the devotee. When the time comes that you really feel the need to meet with others in Masters presence, life will create the setting/opportunities for this to happen. Never doubt it, the Mother and the Guru are helping us all along the way. They are fully and far more "living" than almost anyone you will ever meet in this relative unreal world. They who are helping you the most, in so many ways, are in the Real, invisible non-sensory world. Keep watching and listening to your inner guidance s for those glimpses of wisdom to show you your best way. Sometimes through personal associations or various life opportunities, even through a book!  This voice in the silence speaks also in the din of all your busy life's activities.

These are truly the beginnings of learning and living in the Eternal NOW. It is one of the constant blessings of the effects of your deepest meditations manifesting in the light of day. The constant inspiration of attunement! Community is one of the great testing grounds of where you are really at.

It is greatly to one's advantage to work with others when possible within the structure of community [organization or meditation groups] while at the same time nurturing ones personal sadhana - spiritual path to maintain balanced and steady development. Ones personal association with the "group" in an organized community large or small is what Yogananda referred to as "company of the wise."


This was Yoganandas final message on "Spiritual Communities."
Working with others - but not in communal isolation from the
world community at large or society in general. The ideal place
is near/with your local SRF Temple or meditation group.

Yogananda also clearly stated that one of the purposes of Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS was to encourage all persons to have a little space or room in their home as private meditation area, where they could daily commune with God in silence using the very effective techniques of Yoga meditation.
This is for developing our creative independence and intuition and higher consciousness.
I highly recommend learning these techniques from Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship.
They have an excellent correspondence course and other support services for all devotees/students.
Or you can take advantage of their free online meditation program at their web site.

There is a strange and distracting tendency for the devotee of this type of path - that when during ones initial search it is found that being more independent leads one closer to the truths one is seeking, keeping free of organizations feels very beneficial. However, this proves to be a temporary phase that if maintained too long will be counter productive to the devotee. Community is important and very necessary as is the guidance and blessings of a true living Guru. Humble yourself and be involved and supportive part of the time. Everyone benefits tremendously from meeting together in His name.

Walking in nature trails can be so invigorating and peaceful - just  ignore the bugs!
Working with community will strengthen/balance ones discipline and growth, as well as expand your consciousness from your meditating anchor - ignore the egos, the gossip and the politics!    "Take the sugar and leave the sand behind " as the Master once said. He gives us so much sugar to work with, results will come if you reread the lessons and apply their ideas with devotion.

The larger type of spiritual community [or commune] is a very risky venture for the
novice devotee to become involved in. Good leadership is extremely rare, and the
lifestyle may develop into constricting political style one does not bargain for.
Leaving such a lifestyle can be traumatic, difficult, and costly.

Although Paramahansa Yogananda spoke of the great ideal spiritual
communities long ago, He put this idea on hold by telling us the
most desirable way for devotees [for now] would be to become part
of a local temple community while living your normal life in a normal
secular community as most persons in the world do now.
This was His latest word on the matter, and as wonderful as the former
ideal is, few people are ready for such a lifestyle presently, and the
required great spiritual leadership to guide such a venture is also
so very rare. Many persons with power still tend to be too abusive
and/or incompetent subtle dictators. Don't become their victims.

When community takes a negative/dangerous turn beware!
This can happen from the holding of erroneous ideals to the abuse of bad leadership.
Such as in exclusivism and fanaticism and politicized teachings .
It has been the evil results of such directions that have given some
persons the view that religion is the cause of wars and many other
problems in human societies.

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Discover The Sacred Path of Self-Realization !

by Federico Parente

Note (c) some of the photos on the right are  places visited by Paramahansa Yogananda >>>>>>>

What is Self-Realization?

Paramahansa Yogananda tells us ;       
"S
elf-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...................   All we have to do is improve our knowing."

What is our greatest human challenge in this life?

      How did we come to believe in the many concepts and prejudices we hold so dear?

Who Can show us the way out of delusion to the one Reality?

    What are the means to gain true freedom from our false visions and beliefs?

These and many other questions are gnawing at our souls,

and we are really looking for a better way

that makes a lot more sense, results, and  joy

than we presently experience in our lives and circumstances.

And There is a better way!

A safer path through the jungle of this relative world.

A way which brings success and peace to yourself, your family,  and the world around you. First you must understand and practice it, nothing worthwhile ever comes without change, serious effort, loyalty and right methods.

Let us discover and work with those who were supremely successful on this path of Self-Realization Fellowship. Aptly described by Yogananda as the "Airplane Route".

The Gurus of Self-Realization Fellowship are Living Masters.
They are in a class beyond "experts."
They are fully aware of the true Reality.
Knowing the way - they truly can guide you
to your goal of enlightenment/Salvation.
Firstly you need to improve your searching and listening skills.
Read about the Great Ones of all faiths in Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual classic
  "Autobiography of a Yogi"   at  http://www.yogananda-srf.org/ay/index.html

Let us make a commitment to changing ourselves as the first step to creating a better life in a better world.

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