Where do we look for fulfillment? Appearances and conditions in the world seem to say that our fulfillment comes from things outside of us. However, over and over experience shows us that nothing outside satisfies the longing in the pit of our gut for something more out of life. What is it?
We always seem to be working for something in the distance that is not within our reach. Most of the time we are wrapped up in doing something. We get so consumed with action that we have little or no awareness of our being.
What is that something we are looking for? I see it as a state of being in complete calmness. I think that it is difficult to wrap our mind around the possibility of complete calmness of mind where our feelings just stop. We are so used to the constant motion of the mind and feelings. Yet we hear about people who have it all the time. How do they do it?
The Bible says to, "Be still, and know that I am God." How do we be still and know God? In the book "The Second Coming of Christ"and also in the book "The Yoga of Jesus" Paramahansa Yogananda talks about how we can do just that. Yogananda is the author of the highly acclaimed book "Autobiography of a Yogi" which has been a best selling book for more than 60 years. In the book "The Second Coming of Christ" and in "The Yoga of Christ" Yogananda answers many questions like where was Jesus during the missing years? What were the hidden teachings that Jesus gave to his closest disciples which have been lost or suppressed throughout the centuries? Did Jesus actually teach that all non-Christians are excluded from God's kingdom?
Here is an excerpt from The Second Coming of Christ:
"In these pages I offer to the world an intuitionally perceived spiritual interpretation of the words spoken by Jesus, truths received through actual communion with Christ Consciousness. They will be found to be universally true if they are studied conscientiously and meditated upon with soul-awakened intuitive perception. They reveal the perfect unity that exists among the revelations of the Christian Bible, the Bhagavad Gita of India, and all other time-tested true scriptures."
"The saviors of the world do not come to foster inimical doctrinal division; their teachings should not be used toward that end. It is something of a misnomer even to refer to the New Testament as the 'Christian' Bible, for it does not belong exclusively to any one sect. Truth is meant for the blessing and upliftment of the entire human race. As the Christ Consciousness is universal, so does Jesus Christ belong to all."
If you would like to read "Autobiography of a Yogi" free, here is a link to Gutenberg.org where free versions of "Autobiography of a Yogi" can be downloaded for reading devices in e-book form, or it can be read online. I enjoyed reading Autobiography of a Yogi. Gutenberg Project eBook-Autobiography of a Yogi
You can read my June 2011 blog entry called The Yoga of Jesus.
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