The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda - Collector's Series #7. To Make Heaven on Earth [Audio CD]

Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

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Publication Date: April 10, 2005

The voice of Paramahansa Yogananda. To Make Heaven on Earth, No. 7 in our special Collector's Series of rare recorded talks was given at a Christmas Day Banquet, December 25, 1949, at Self Realization Fellowship's International Headquarters. His words at times were an outpouring of his interiorized consciousness, and at other times he reminisced informally.
These digitally restored archival recordings of talks by Paramahansa Yogananda are unique - offering the listener a rare opportunity to hear the actual voice of a great lover of God. Anyone who admires Yogananda's writings will love hearing him speak. Yogananda can be heard sometimes expounding great truths with passion and humor, and at other times intimately talking with God, rapt in divine communion.

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About the Author

Hailed as "the father of Yoga in the West", Paramahansa Yogananda is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Born in India on January 5, 1893, he devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Daya Mata, one of his earliest and closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 1955. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world..

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship (April 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087612435X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876124352
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #501,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The fullest, most human audio glimpses of the yoga master, October 30, 2004

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This review is from: The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda - Collector's Series #7. To Make Heaven on Earth (Audio CD)

This is an exceptional CD, even by SRF standards. It presents an informal talk the great yoga master gave on Christmas Day 1949. Fully 74 minutes long, it is broken into 34 tracks so that you may fastforward directly to your favorite stories.
There are too many inspirational peaks to list them all. Many are not printed or recorded elsewhere; others are presented with a new twist. Just to cite a few:
* A most delightful telling of the master's youthful experience of overcoming hunger and learning to rely implicitly on the assistance of God (track 24).
* An elsewhere-unrecorded, very touching story of the Divine Light appearing while he and some students drove through Laguna Beach: intervening to confirm his intuition in a tiny matter - of Scotch bread. (track 26)
* An ecumenical narrative expressing the divine power, devotion, and humility of St. Francis.
* A little sample of the master's lovely teasing with a student - here he teases Tara Mata (Laurie V. Pratt) (mingling it with praise for her), the highly advanced disciple who edited Autobiography of a Yogi and who has written so inspiringly of how the master initiated her into Cosmic Consciousness (see the SRF booklet, Forerunner of a New Race).

PS: I don't know why Amz has this checked as "abridged." It has been re-engineered by SRF to reduced background noise, but it IS the full talk (periods of silent meditation omitted, of course).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Universal, May 22, 2007

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This review is from: The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda - Collector's Series #7. To Make Heaven on Earth (Audio CD)

I feel blessed and grateful to have access to this enlightening, sublime and encouraging talk by Paramahansa Yogananda.