"Being Twice-Born" - The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita with Swami Kriyananda

Part 15 - Chapter 1, Stanza 7. http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BEBPB The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda as remembered by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda. This book shares the profound insights of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, as remembered by one of his few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda.

This revelation of India's best-loved scripture approaches it from an entirely fresh perspective, showing its deep allegorical meaning and also its down-to-earth practicality. The themes presented are universal: how to achieve victory in life in union with the divine; how to prepare for life's "final exam," death, and what happens afterward; how to triumph over all pain and suffering.

Swami Kriyananda worked with Paramhansa Yogananda in 1950 while the Master completed his commentary of the Bhagavad Gita. At that time Yogananda commissioned him to disseminate his teachings world-wide. Kriyananda has in his lifetime lectured, taught, and written over one hundred books based on Yogananda's teachings.

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita is available from Crystal Clarity Publishers.

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• kriya
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• bliss
• meditation
• happiness
• peace

[crabbster21]

Re: at 4:05 -- "many souls still wandering after a Day of Brahma": If a soul can rise up through the angelic and causal realms to merge in Spirit, is it possible that the Spirit substance of this soul might be cast out again into physical Creation with the next Day of Brahma, only to repeat the evolutionary process over again? If this is so, then the Boddhisattva decision to remain incarnate seems to make even more sense. I know this is a very abstract question, but it interests me.

[AnandaWorldwide]

The Boddhisattva would be the Buddhist equivalent to a Jivan Mukta, one who is "freed while living." Some such souls, my Guru told me, actually defer their liberation indefinitely in order to free their disciples.

swami kriyananda

[AnandaWorldwide]

Dr. M. W. Lewis, Yogananda's first kriya yoga disciple in America, once asked the Guru, "If I attain liberation in this life, will I have to come back into maya with the next Day of Brahma, and have to work all over again toward liberation"

The Guru replied, "Never fear. Once the soul achieves liberation, it is free forever."

swami kriyananda

[OneDharmaYouMovement]

Thank you dharmic brother.

The twice born understanding for me came straight away, as for you, i realised straight away, that our first birth is the physical, and our second birth is of knowledge and enlightenment. Im glad to see that you truly are wise, and didnt follow the colonially racist interpretation of twice born.

Stay on the path, and realise god inside you. I see your going in the correct direction.

[DwayneBSapling]

"All things are speaking, in spite of their apparant silence." I can't remember who said this.

[AnandaWorldwide]

Thank you for sharing your story. Joy is our true nature. When we feel great joy we know we are on the right track.

[AnandaWorldwide]

I'm sorry that I can't help you out with this question. I know nothing about astral travel or using the astral realm as a learning environment. On our spiritual path we go within in mediation and learn through God's guidance. I have heard that souls in the astral world are always trying to guide us here on Earth. But the only way we here at Ananda try to tune into that guidance is through meditation.

[jignaeri]

are you swami kriyananada

[crabbster21]

Thanks so much for your reply. It's comforting to know that I'm in such good company (with Dr. Lewis) with my questions.