Sunday May
14 11AM Resurrection and Yoga According to Paramahansa Yogananda
The
teachings of an early exponent of Hinduism in America
Fred
Stella President Interfaith Dialouge Association of Grand
Rapids
Laleshore Interfaith Institute 6676 122nd Ave Ganges Mi
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote one of the most famous books ever on the
Yogic Path;The Autobiography of a Yogi
For many Americans this book served
as a first book on Yoga . Paramahansa Yogananda came to America in 1920 to
speak at a symposia on religion in Boston. He subsequently became
very popular even meeting Calvin Coolidge at the White House. One of his
recently published works is a Vedantic commentary of the New Testament. In
Yogananda's own words it is;
"In titling this work The Second
Coming of Christ, I am not referring to a literal return of Jesus
to earth....A thousand Christs sent to earth would not redeem its people
unless they themselves become Christlike by purifying and expanding their
individual consciousness to receive therein the second coming of the Christ
Consciousness, as was manifested in Jesus....Contact with this Consciousness,
experienced in the ever new joy of meditation, will be the real second coming
of Christ — and it will take place right in the devotee's own consciousness."
—Paramahansa
Yogananda