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    Works of Paramahansa Yogananda
    Works of Paramahansa Yogananda
    Works of Paramahansa Yogananda
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    A saint named Mahavatar Babaji lived in the Himalayas. One day, Jesus Christ appeared to him and told Babaji to send someone to the west to remind his people that the goal of life is to become one with God through inner communion. That person was Paramahansa Yogananda.

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    Release dateOct 2, 2018
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    Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) es mundialmente reconocido como una de las personalidades espirituales más ilustres de nuestro tiempo. Nació en el norte de la India, y en 1920 se radicó en Estados Unidos, donde enseñó, durante más de treinta años, la antigua filosofía y la ciencia de la meditación yoga, originarias de la India, así como el arte de vivir en forma equilibrada la vida espiritual. Fue el primer gran maestro del Yoga que vivió y enseñó durante un prolongado periodo en Occidente. Él viajó extensamente impartiendo conferencias en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, disertando en auditorios de las más importantes ciudades, que registraban siempre un lleno total, y en los cuales revelaba la unidad fundamental que existe entre las grandes religiones del mundo. A través de la célebre historia de su vida, Autobiografía de un yogui, y de sus originales comentarios sobre las escrituras de Oriente y Occidente, así como por medio del resto de sus numerosos libros, él ha inspirado a millones de lectores. Self-Realization Fellowship —la organización internacional que Paramahansa Yogananda fundó en 1920 con el fin de diseminar sus enseñanzas en todo el mundo— continúa llevando a cabo su obra espiritual y humanitaria. 

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    Works of Paramahansa Yogananda - Paramahansa Yogananda

    Published by Rudra 2018.

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    The Second Coming of Christ

    Jesus Christ is the model for both East and West to follow. God’s stamp, as Son of God, is hidden in every soul. Do away with masks! Come out openly as Sons of God! 

    —Paramhansa Yogananda East-West, March-April 1930

    Yogananda’s Commentaries on the Bible 

    Paramhansa Yogananda’s own words describing the importance of these commentaries, in Inner Culture, April 1932:

    These spiritual interpretations are the result of a long unfulfilled promise to Yogoda Students. They are also the methods which the masters have taken to show to the world the common, scientific platform of intuitive perception, where the Christian Bible, the Hindu Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Old and New Testaments), and the true scriptures of all true religions, can find unity. Many people acclaim that the spiritual interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita and the Christian Bible is what is predicted as the Second Coming of Christ, because in such interpretation there is revealed and liberated the truth hidden in the dark caves of theoretical and theological studies. Jesus Christ was crucified once, but His Christian teaching has been, and is now being crucified by ignorant people. The Yogoda movement is attempting to show how the ChristConsciousness of Jesus, free form theological crucifixion, can be brought back a second time into the souls of men. These spiritual interpretations are born of intuition, and will be found to be universally true if they are meditated upon with intuitive perception. They are received and interpreted through ChristConsciousness. Universal Christ-Consciousness appeared in the vehicle of Jesus, and now through Yogoda SelfRealization, and these intuitionally received interpretations of the Scriptures, the ChristConsciousness is coming a second time to manifest through the consciousness of every true Yogodan. ‘All those who received Him, to them gave He the power to become the Sons of God.’"

    Introduction — The Three-Fold Meaning of the Hindu and Christian Bibles 

    Intuitionally Perceived Spiritual Interpretation of Words Spoken by Jesus Christ

    (To be studied every day conscientiously and meditated upon by true Christians, true devotees of God, and Yogodans. These truths are found in meditation and those who want to perceive the Second Coming of Christ must meditate upon them.)

    Universal Christ-Consciousness appeared in the vehicle of Jesus, and now through Yogoda SelfRealization, and these intuitionally received interpretations of the Scriptures, the ChristConsciousness is coming a second time to manifest through the consciousness of every true Yogodan. All those who received Him, to them gave He the power to become the Sons of God. 

    As a small cup cannot hold an ocean within it, no matter how willing it may be to do so, likewise the cup of material human consciousness cannot grasp the universal Christ Consciousness, no matter how desirous it is; but when the student, by the Yogoda method of Meditation and Concentration, enlarges the caliber of his consciousness to Omniscience, he can hold the universal consciousness in all atoms. (Christ Consciousness) within his own. This is what is meant by Received Him. Thus, according to Jesus, all souls who can actually find their souls one with Christ Consciousness, by intuitive Self-Realization, can be called Sons of God.  

    Three-fold Meaning of the Hindu and Christian Bibles

    All Oriental Scriptures, such as the Bhagavad Gita, or the Hindu Bible, and the Christian Bible, have a three-fold meaning. In other words, the Scriptures deal with the three factors of human beings, namely, the material, the mental, and the spiritual. Hence, all true Scriptures have been so written that they serve to be beneficial to the body, mind, and soul of man. True Scriptures are like the wells of Divine waters, which can quench the threefold material, mental, and spiritual thirsts of man. In addition, the Scriptures, in order to be worth while, should really help the business man, the mental man, and the spiritual man. Although both the material and the psychological interpretations of the Scriptures are necessary, it should be remembered that the scriptural authors undertook with great pains to point out to man that the spiritual interpretations are of supreme importance to him.

    A materially or intellectually successful man may not be the truly, scientifically successful man who makes a perfect success of life; whereas, a spiritual man is the happy all-round man, who is healthy, intellectual, contented, and truly prosperous, with all-satisfying wisdom. Since by intuition the spiritual authors first sought to make man primarily spiritual, I give the spiritual interpretation with the psychological and material interpretations interwoven. These interpretations will help alike the spiritual aspirant, the intellectual man, and the business man.

    The Baptism of Jesus Christ — Part 1 of The Second Coming of Christ 

    East West, April 1932

    Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:13- 17) 

    Intuitional Interpretation of Yogoda, Hindu, and Christian Baptism

    The original ceremony of baptism by water came from India. Baptism means immersion in water in order to cleanse or purify. Purification of the body should precede the purification of the mind. Hence, all souls who desired to begin living the spiritual life had to purify their bodies. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but baptism of the body, unless followed by baptism of the mind, becomes practically meaningless. If we bathe and thus purify our bodies, we will find that our mind will temporarily become purified, but unless we change our souls’ wickedness by calmness and meditation, and constant spiritual vigilance, we will remain the same old devils with bad habits in spite of the temporary purifying effect of the water on our bodies. To illustrate this metaphorically: A Hindu saint said to his would—be disciple, Son, it is necessary to bathe in the Ganges to purify the mind from sin. The sins will leave you temporarily while you bathe in the holy waters; but they will wait for you in the trees skirting the Ganges, and as soon as you come out of the sacred influence of the holy water, they will again jump on you. 

    It must be remembered, however, that bodily baptism by water has its good points. The custom in India is to take spiritual lessons from a holy man only immediately after bathing. To take spiritual lessons with a sweaty, unclean body is not effective. The Baptists do well to immerse their initiates in water, but the ceremony of immersion without following it up with continued spiritual lessons in meditation and God—contact is of little value.

    Sprinkling of Water on Head

    The aristocratic, modern way of baptism consists in sprinkling water on the head. This is all that is left of the original custom of purifying the body by water. Baptism by the sprinkling of water may be all right for most civilized people, for they usually bathe themselves daily. Then, too, immersion of initiates in water may be unnecessary if they are mentally evolved, but sprinkling of water on the head of evolved people is unnecessary, unless this is done only out of respect to the ancient, baptismal ceremonies.  

    Baptism of Jesus  

    It is evident that Jesus, although he was so evolved, did not fail to go into the water. He did not fully immerse, for the River Jordan was practically dry at that time. Thus it is all right for spiritually minded people to bathe before being baptized, but it is also true that

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