*See comments by Shri shri David Frawley [indologist who debunked the false AiT]. See preface to “The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita by Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Pub.

“Truth is one…  Divine incarnations do not come to bring a new or exclusive religion, but to restore the One Religion of God-realization, (such as the Sanatana Dharma.)
The great ones, like waves, all bathe in the same Eternal Sea… ” thus said Parmahansa Yogananda, Avatar for the 3rd millennium.
This is the one of whom Jesus spoke, “those who believe on me will do the things that i am doing, and they will do even greater things , because I go to the Father.”

When you actually read/study the Master’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”, then you will truly know the one of whom the prophets spoke!

Notes/Commentary ; 
Not everyone who claims to have a “message from some God ” is a “Divine Incarnation.” Sadly – so many persons are scammed by these false proclamations and prophecies.
They are very often “Politicians in Prophets clothing.”
Few can easily/clearly tell the difference.

What makes their message so alluring is their appeal to your vain dreams of a pleasurable eternal life.
To clarify , Politicians mostly are seekers of power, they often abhor spiritual principles of truthfulness, transparency, humility, interior contemplation of Yoga. They abhor being caught in their own embarrassments and lies.
Often making false claims, vain promises, and whatever it takes to attain their goals of wealth, fame, and power! Beware of great “influencers!”
Telling you of the all the great rewards and glory of following them into a world they cannot show you. “Talk is cheap!”
Many are the ambitions of sweet tonged persons who concoct amazing tales to appear as authentic “messengers of some “God” . “You will know them by their fruits!”

Although this method of discernment appears simple enough for the intellect, it is the emotional blindness that entraps such great numbers [like in Mega churches] in “the madness of crowds.”
So again I say, “devotees/seekers beware of those who while proclaiming to be “messengers of God” may often be a politicians in prophets clothing.”

Attracting a great following is not always a sign of a “great one.” or a “true world prophet.”
Learn the difference between “education” and “indoctrination.”
The test is very simple, if you are now emotionally being misled by vain claims and crowd influencers, step back and ask the right questions.
Remember, when one of these Great Ones warned us about not harming children. The best way to harm a child is raising them in the teachings that came from “the blind leading the blind.” while “indoctrinating instead of educating. ”
Misery loves company!”

“Wide is the gate and wide is the way that leads to destruction, and most people with go that way; narrow is the way and narrow the gate that leads to life, and very few will find it” said JC. What did Douglas Murray write about “the madness of crowds”?
Do not imagine that if you are a member of a smaller church/group you must be “one of those few,” who have found the right way to salvation.” This is more than a numbers game.
These are the Fax….There never was only one way!
There never was only one Savior!
There never was only one holy book!
There never was only one lifetime for each of us!
“The Kingdom of God” is not out there somewhere, in time or space.
It is “here and now, right within you!”
All those old concepts are primitive religion, what Jesus and Yogananda
came to change….!
Yes ! compared to the Sanatana Dharma, the Abrahamic popular ideas are primitive as long as you are “one of the many.”

The truth of this matter is that if you go into most places of worship, you would be lucky to find 5% who really deeply understand care what it’s actually all about. Very few persons seem to be able to care enough to rise above their earlier indoctrinations and ego consciousness.
It all comes down to where you and your local culture are on the scale of your human evolution….and if you have no fear of being isolated from the flock! If you prefer to remain blind, life is pointless and comfortable and boring! Change is everything!

How blessed and cursed we are to be living in this amazing information age! Look up anything that has happened/spoken in the last few thousand years and you can instantaneously find data on it.

Of course, the responsibility of separating truth from fiction is still yours in the end! Here is where reason and intuition are so important.

Now all we need to do is make the effort to ask the questions and do the work of changing our consciousness through the life changing exercise of Kriya Yoga Meditation.
This is what gives power to your prayers! Think of the structure of a vector. Direction is the essence of your prayer, Power is the force of realization!
Are you “One of the “Few ‘, “or One of the “Many?”

Quotes from the writings, talks, and recordings of Paramahansa Yogananda;
© SRF Publishers LA USA

      (in The Second Coming of Christ)” Paramahansa Yogananda said.

“They shall come from all parts of the world, thousands and thousands of them, just as you have, for Self-Realization (Fellowship) is bringing the original Christianity of Christ and the original Yoga of India’s Krishna so that all people of all religions can follow one highway to the Infinite.”
thus saith………….... Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

This is one of Paramahansa Yogananda’s many prophecies that has already happening before the eyes of the world!

Even though our many sons of God throughout history are equal in stature, the environment into which they taught made great differences on how their life and messages remained effective and reliable! The true ones never die and are all of one consciousness.
The misunderstood idea of “Progressive Revelation “seldom applies to the world of the past. Since and example of the Lord Krishna’s “Bhagavad Gita” circa 6 thousand bce was far more advance than the Old Testament proclamations which followed millenniums later debunks that term of progressive! .

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A Major part of Paramahansa Yogananda’s world mission/dispensation was to clearly demonstrate/encourage/clarify the basic unity and harmony of the primary elements  and purposes of all true world religions. Especially from the Gita and the New Testament! He later revised His mandate to write an esoteric commentary for Islam using the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. More on this later.

This is the nature of pluralism – the main concept that alone brings peace and cooperation and democracy among all the worlds religious communities! It’s opposite is “exclusivism” the dogmatic religious approach which has been the main cause of stress, intolerance, misunderstanding and the cause of violence between religions and cultures world wide.
The attitude and desire to make everyone in the world think like yourself is to enforce your ignorance upon the world, the door to psychopathic behavior.
Until you first realize the Self, which is the knowing of God and/or the holy spirit (om), you are not ready for any kind of “missionary work.” Open minded wisdom guided sharing of ones ideas is never properly done by coercion, or deceit, narcissistic egotism or force. Those who still practice this do not even follow the wisdom of their own scriptures. Academia never produces God Knowing saints.

These conflicts are mainly caused when original teachings collect literary errors through time, including natural evolutionary language changes, and especially the political manipulation of religious works by those in power, or by a false prophets pretending to have received their comments from some God. Or those who are self deceived.

One should examine all claims closely as there are many charlatans in the world of religion. Especially test and examine those teachings that you were raised in! Remember – in most cultures you have been programmed to believe the ideas of unrealized parents and teachers. Who with good intent had little awareness of the true meaning of their professed faiths.
Many followers are unaware that there is a difference between religious beliefs and political beliefs. Only a true fully realized divine teacher can free you from the Cognitive Dissonance and darkness that holds you back. Do you wish to be “one of the Many- or one of the Few?”

This can be better understood with searching our history and your heart.
Are today’s common beliefs followed by your faith what those prophets really intended or taught? Academia is seldom the best place to learn about comparative religion and true philosophy.  Better to do your own personal searching and the truth of all this will become clearer as you go beyond your earlier programming. As a seeker of truth you owe that much to your personal integrity. We all have the same challenge in this world of Maya, from birth we were mostly misled led by the spiritually blind in every religion.

This was the story of my own sadhana, when I was ready Yoganandaji personally and posthumously introduced Himself to me, and the rest is history. Then I knew that it was he who had been personally been guiding my training and life opportunities, He is with me always. Many positive results and lessons continually came since that amazing day of divine grace. The blessings of knowing your true Guru/savoir are many!

It was mainly India’s Sanatana Dharma and the far east mystics that has kept the truly ecumenical principal of global pluralism, tolerance, and the spiritual science of Kriya Yoga alive through countless millenniums. Such is the light giving blessing of India’s “Sanatana Dharma.” This is what it takes to produce a Gandhi or a Paramahansa Yogananda.

Yoganandaji’s particular emphasis above re the historical words of Jesus and Krishna are for specific reasons as follows. The Master’s original mandate was to show the harmony between Original Christianity and Original Yoga .
This however evolved into showing the plurality in all the worlds true major spiritual scriptures. It is not unusual for a great Prophet to adjust the nature of His mandate part way through His world mission.
Yogananda, like Jesus, changed or upgraded several of His main emphasis for the immediate and long term goals.

In today’s world of global communications, mobility, and sciences, those documents provide the clearest elements referencing the highest Yoga spiritual sciences. Which Yogananda has made transparent and available for the “man in the street.” Which He has fully demonstrated in His extraordinary life. The value of any claims by any authority/prophet lies in all the results and examples of that life and statements. That becomes a living proof! If you don’t know why you believe something, you are in a state of blind belief situation going nowhere. What does the record say?

This move away from the narrowness of dogma, academia, and the secrecy of ancient monastic traditions will restore real spirituality in the hearts of many true seekers of reality world wide. It will spark a healing revolution in the hearts of a humanity that is now experiencing an emptiness and psycho derangement from the pace and direction of today’s world.

Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings via Self-Realization Fellowship are leading the way!
Our first duty is to change ourselves! Then, and only then do we have some valid qualification to share our wisdom with others who may be open to receive true light.

Monuments to the World’s Major Religions, SRF Court of All Religions, SRF Lake Shrine
[[This interesting and significant display located at SRF Lake Shrine, was
created by Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS circa 1940 ?]]

Since the erection of these noble monuments a hoard of new knowledge about world religious history has been discovered, not all of which is very flattering. And although this newer and more reliable earth shaking history may appear to change the “true story” about what has been going on in the historical records of many religious traditions, There are still the lives of so many billions of persons [“the many”] who must find their own way to reconcile their past with their future hopes. ”Can you handle the Truth.”

Although every parent attempts to teach their little one the best that they knew at the time, few parents
knew the better way or “the few.” Now that you have been programmed by society [“the blind leading the blind”], the great challenge is in your own hands! Don’t play the victim card, instead seek the truth in all matters and overcome your past dark programing from “the way of the many.”

Although Paramahansa Yogananda knew about these future [after 1952]
developments, He was able, even back before 1952 to compensate for what the future has finally revealed to the world about the true situations of some of the worlds major faith claims.

So as it was also with Jesus, Paramahansaji changed part of His divine mandate to accommodate these new discoveries half a century before they were made clear by the 3rd millennium.
Yes, Jesus did make a major change to His mandate to accommodate situational changes to His divine mission in dealing with the “lost sheep of Israel.”

Those who found Him politically in contrast to the popular leadership narrative did not have a pleasant ending. So, like Socrates, He was falsely accused and executed.
First, the evil ones shut you Up , then they shut you Down!
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also from- Aims and ideals of Self-Realization Fellowship –

“To reveal the complete harmony and basic oneness of original Christianity as taught by JESUS CHRIST and original Yoga as taught by BHAGAVAN KRISHNA; and to show that these principles of truth are the common scientific foundation of all true religions.”        Paramahansa Yogananda

“To point out the one divine highway to which all paths of true religious beliefs eventually lead: the highway of daily, scientific, devotional meditation on God.”

~excerpt from ‘Aims and Ideals’ set forth by Paramahansa Yogananda

n his personal ministry. 

Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well;

John 4:21,  “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

Yogananda concludes with this far reaching statement;

Paramahansa Yogananda said;

“We in Self-Realization Fellowship have not come to bring a new religion, or a new cult or new interpretation. We have come to teach practical methods, the exact technique of widening the channel of human consciousness, so that truth may flow in ceaselessly, endlessly, without obstructions of dogma or unproved beliefs. We seek to point out the path of concentration on a practical system of realization as well as words and personality of saints and prophets. We teach step by step progress to individual personal realization and attainment of divinity.”

Yogananda’s writing and publishing of His third major spiritual commentary “Wine of the Mystic”[published in 1994 under copy write by Self-Realization Publishers LA USA] requires further discussion to clarify His change of His approach to this project.

This inspiring work is a major change of mandate by the world prophet
Paramahansa Yogananda. His original plan was to write commentaries only on the Holy Bhagavad Gita and the Christian Bible. Showing the great unity of teaching to unite east and west. Two similar revelations that came via two true sons of God to two very different cultures about 5k+ years apart.
One that was locally rejected and one that was greatly accepted, the
circumstances differed at the time but the message was equally similar
containing the higher age teachings of the science of Yoga and freedom from
dogmatism, exclusivism, and blind belief.
We can only guess why He would also write a commentary for the Muslim world, presently representing over a billion devout followers.
It was Yoganandajis great compassion not to ignore such a large portion of Humanity whom He knew would soon be ready to move on.

The main question that rears its head here is;
Why did Yogananda not use the sacred texts of Islam to write His commentary for those believers? As He did for the followers of Jesus and Krishna.
So, many years later we now have some answers to this irregularity .
The answers to this have become clear from global research and precise investigations,  especially discoveries in the middle eastern regions.

Yogananda had this present day knowledge over 80 years ago,
and thus chose the spiritually advanced works of Omarr Khayyam known as “The Rubaiyat” to write his illustrious commentary for the Muslim world. 
Published under the title of “Wine of the Mystic”,  c SRF publishers LA USA.

Yes, I have deeply studied most matters  pertaining to this subject!………
If you wish to know what Master knew back then…………..do the research!

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