The Second Coming of Christ;
Resurrecting the Christ Within You.
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In spite of some academic claims that something written over 60 years ago may be out of date.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;
"Self-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.
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;
"Self-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.
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;
"Self-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.
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;
"Self-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.
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;
"Self-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.
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;
"Self-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.
by Paramahansa Yogananda
published by Self-Realization Publishers, LA USA 2004
The best source for Teachings and Blessings of Paramahansa Yogananda!
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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.
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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;
"Self-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."