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The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

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This book captures Paramanhansa Yogananda's spoken words and writings and puts them into clear focus in one volume on the much misunderstood teachings of Jesus. This new book "The Yoga Of Jesus" is a hundred years in the making. The editors and publishers do a great job of putting Yogananda's thoughts in a logical order so that it reveals a much deeper message--one that shows the hidden yoga of the gospels.

This book will awaken some people to new ideas while others may just have their inner truth reaffirmed. The book is a significant spiritual work and will remain a best seller (As does his classic "The Autobiography of a Yogi") for decades if not centuries.

There is even a chapter devoted to the missing years of Christ's life, which were spent in India according to Yogananda. The references and footnotes help build strong support for what this book is revealing about the life and teachings of Jesus.

The book is an eye opener for non-yogis and a blissful confirmation of truth from those who follow the teachings of Yogananda. This is one of his best books. I would suggest reading this book along with "The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You" - which blazed huge new spiritual roads just a few years ago.

This book, as with many of Yogananda's books, shows parallels between the teachings of all the great Christian saints, mystics and other enlightened founders of spiritual thought. This book should help unify and promote inter-faith understanding for those with open minds and hearts.

This book is well worth adding to your spiritual library. It can be read in a full afternoon but it may take a lifetime or longer to full grasp all the truth that is within its pages. The book is best read slowly while allowing time to ponder and digest the meaning of what is read. There is so much wisdom and love within these pages. This book receives my highest possible personal recommendation. This is a MUST READ BOOK!

This book is really great! I bought it to read to decide if I thought it was worth pursuing Yogananda's Second Coming of Christ set, which is rather expensive. Once I read this book I had to order the set, and am ready to start reading that now. This book and Yogananda's views are able to clear up some questions of the new testament which had never been clearly answered previously. It just really clears up a lot of murky areas.

I would suggest that someone new to this topic do like I did. Read this book to see if you think the things he says make sense to you. If they do, and you believe he could be right, then move on to the other set to get a more thorough saturation. I still have not decided for sure, but after reading the Second Coming I'm sure I will have made up my mind. I will also say that years ago I had read many of PY's works, and I have always found him to be a very good, decent person. Honesty and integrity of the highest caliber. (This last just in case you are not familiar with him.)

I've often found myself confused by the Bible, and rarely have I really grasped the pertinence of its teachings to the dilemmas of our present society. Never before reading this book have I found the Gospels to be so interesting, so universal in scope, and so applicable to my daily concerns.

I found this book (as well as the larger "the Second Coming of Christ") to beautifully and engagingly present the truths of Jesus in great detail and specificity, as well as in terms of universality and Oneness.

Yogananda and the Yoga of Jesus - I've found it to be valuable in helping me to personalize and deepen my Christian heritage with my evolving spirituality. I am a yoga practitioner, seeking Enlightenment, and also respectful of where I've been and how I'm "traveling". The interesting thing is that all religious paths lead to one end, we just have different symbols for how we name and classify the roadmaps. Reading this book has helped me to be open to the spectacular opportunities for connection with the Divine which are possible in this lifetime for me and anyone else who is interested in pursuing them.

I'm always a little disheartened by people who proclaim to "love" Jesus but do nothing to become like him. I have always had an affinity for Jesus. I remember when I was just a little boy of five, my mother gave me a beautiful picture of Jesus - not the blonde haired, blue eyed "surfer boy" Jesus, but a Jesus who was dark haired and dark eyed and had a look in his eyes like he knew something I didn't and I can remember just looking at that picture every night before bed and saying, "Teach me to be like you, Jesus...teach me to be like you..."

I didn't know that this simple prayer was actually manifesting itself in me even though I had to go through a relatively painful process to lead me "full circle" back to that realization that I wanted to drop the burdens and the cares of the world off my mind and heart and reveal the Light and the Love and the Life of the Holy Spirit that were already within me waiting to come forth.

And how, exactly, does one come to these inner revelations?

Meditate.
Meditate.
Meditate.

The cover of this book is absolutely stunning and really, if it didn't contain the always straight-to-the soul writing of Yogananda, I would've bought the book just for the cover. It pictures a meditating Christ which is refreshing because for centuries we have been bombarded by images of a crucified Christ, a mournful Christ, a betrayed Christ and I don't think we know the full implications of these "negative" images on our psyche. But the cover art of this beautiful book is that of a meditating Jesus...a Jesus whose face is partially obscured by the Light of God and I don't know if you've ever had that experience in meditation of where you completely dissolve in the Light of God, but if you have, then you'll agree with me that you can never again go back to a "normal" mortal life and a "crucified Christ", a "mourning Christ", a Christ that can be "betrayed" is not only impossible but also highly improbable. And for those of you who disagrre, I invite you to open your heart and

Meditate.
Meditate.
Meditate.

A lot of people don't want to think that there are things "hidden" in the Gospels....they like to think that everything they've ever read in the Bible can have only one interpretation and it's usually theirs. But maybe...just maybe...Jesus spoke and taught on all kinds of levels all at once. Maybe the things that weren't outwardly spoken were the most important aspect of his teaching. Maybe he said things so that one could go into their "inner room in secret"...and have God reveal things to them just as God revealed things to him through

Meditation.
Meditation.
Meditation.

I really believe that Jesus wanted us to be like him. I don't think he wanted us to follow behind him as much as he wanted us to walk with him. This book helped me to remember that childhood longing; to be like him...to be a place of Love...a space of Light...to bring to the world those things that are already in Heaven...to know that I do not have to wait, but can ascend and transcend with him even now.

If you don't want organized supestition...I mean religion...to tell you what to think about Jesus, I, from a True Place of Love, recommend this book and to just read a few of its lovely passages every morning and evening and meditate in the glad knowing that the Christ truly does overcome the world everytime we are willing to let go of the outer distractions and into the stillness of the Heaven within where we simply breathe in....breathe out and just allow ourselves to

Be.
Be still.
Be still and know.
Be still and know I AM God.



Peace and Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'

Finally a book which depicts Jesus in his true light. Yogananda reveals Jesus as an Oriental master of God conciousness and strips away Western concepts of Jesus which have been fostered since the second century.

While I would agree that this book is of very high value, it seems to me that a lot of great topics were glossed over and didn't reach the depth of insight that I have come to know and love from Paramahansa Yogananda. My opinion is a bit biased, as I own and am currently reading his most elegant tome: "The Second Coming of Christ," which is quite detailed and has an abundance of depth to it. "The Yoga of Jesus" is of course a watered down version of "Second Coming" and is certainly well worth the time if you want a quick study, that is; "How Sri Yogananda Interprets Jesus - 101" kind of thing. It will definitely get you thinking, with quite a few "ah-ha!" moments. I strongly recommend you read "The Yoga of Jesus" before "Second Coming." A 4 star recommendation today!

Great book written by a great man. It has renewed my perspective on Christ (original perspective was that of a Catholic who received First Communion in a French church in Rabbat Morocco, and later attended Catechism in Southern Spain as child). The author, Yogananda, really taps into the beauty and truths that I always suspected were the things that all religions had in common.

The Yoga of Jesus from P. Yoganada is a must read book, specially for all the Christians of our time. It's a transforming reading, in which the teachings of Jesus are explained, from the message of the Gospels. I understood more the teachings of Jesus after 30 years of being Christian. I recommend this book to everyone.

there has been so much discussion in recent years on what Jesus really said and did,
and even whether He really existed.
Paramahansa Yoganandas commentary sampler "The Yoga Of Jesus," from
Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers LA USA really clarifies a lot in these matters.
This volume serves as a handy and welcomed introduction to the Masters larger and acclaimed work
"the Second Coming of Christ;Resurrection the Christ Within You" from the same publisher in 2004.

This work will most likely answer in the most direct and inspiring way all the questions you had about Jesus life and teachings.
It is truly inspiring and eye opening. For students of scriptures and seekers in general this work
could easily be considered to be "the real Restoration of Jesus teachings before it was so distorted by the
forces of time and politics etc,

For those who need deprogramming [those still attached to the status quo] this volume will be a very effective
starting point to renewed understanding of one of the worlds great prophets/gurus.

It will renew and advance your faith in the real Christ!
It was one of Paramahansa Yoganandas primary missions to RESTORE THE TRUE TEACHINGS of JESUS.

I would also recommend reading the complete work >>>>>
"The Second Coming of Christ; Resurrecting the Christ Within You."