Articles Posted by Gilead
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In reflecting on his participation in an Assembly of the World’s Religions held at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, Rabbi Rami Mark Shapiro writes: "Because of the small and intimate nature of our gathering, we moved very quickly beyond a study of comparative traditions and into the much more fruitful sharing of personal experiences. Each of us told the story of our spiritual quest . . . . For me that is the heart of religion: the telling of stories, powerful tales that open the listener up to holiness. ". . . At Snowmass we strove for intimacy. We...
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An Easter Message From Inner Culture magazine, April 1938 Easter may bring lilies, bunnies, and eggs for you to celebrate Christ's resurrection; but I pray that the lily of Christ wisdom grow in the garden of your soul, that you taste the sweetness of Christ love in your heart, that you enjoy the infinitely colored egg of true happiness—and that, like the fast-footed bunny, may you quicken your pace towards your divine home. I want you to pray to Christ the following prayer in the secret temple of deep meditation: "Thou didst resurrect Thyself from the bondage of flesh, karma,...
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<!-- --> Christian Reincarnation Scriptural support for reincarnation There are many Bible verses which are suggestive of reincarnation. One episode in particular from the healing miracles of Christ seems to point to reincarnation: "And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus answered, 'Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1) The disciples ask the Lord if the man himself could...
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People who believe they live only once are compelled to compromise their hopes of perfection. Orthodox believers may try to conduct their lives in such a way as to avoid hellfire after death, but most I think, even so, are inclined to ask themselves pragmatically, "How bad can I be and get away with it?" Belief in the principle of rebirth helps one to view progress joyously, without fear and self-doubt. "Is there any end to evolution?" a visitor once asked Paramhansa Yogananda. "No end," the Master replied. "Progress goes on until you achieve endlessness." At Mt. Washington, reincarnation was...
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Spiritualizing the NewpapapersFrom East-West, March-April 1928"Blessed are those who do not indulge in sensational news."Millions start the day with the gruesome sight of murder headlines in the morning newspapers. The sleep-refreshed young mentality starts the day's race for success with the dark cloud of wrong thoughts hanging over his mind. The law of "All's well that starts well" is trampled upon. Newspapers have more or less become the tin gods worshipped by the mass mind. They can make or unmake a man, at least in the public eye. Human opinion, however, and God's opinion are different. One forsaken by all...
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"Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness."1 In these words to John the Baptist, and in asking John to baptize him, Jesus was acknowledging the divine rights of his guru. From a reverent study of the Bible from an Oriental viewpoint,2 and from intuitional perception, I am convinced that John the Baptist was, in past lives, the guru of Christ. There are numerous passages in the Bible which infer that John and Jesus in their last incarnations were, respectively, Elijah and his disciple Elisha. (These are the spellings in the Old Testament. The Greek translators spelled the names...
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(Original 1946 Edition)by Paramhansa YoganandaCHAPTER 39Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist "Return to india. I have waited for you patiently for fifteen years. Soon I shall swim out of the body and on to the Shining Abode. Yogananda, come!"Sri Yukteswar's voice sounded startlingly in my inner ear as I sat in meditation at my Mt. Washington headquarters. Traversing ten thousand miles in the twinkling of an eye, his message penetrated my being like a flash of lightning.Fifteen years! Yes, I realized, now it is 1935; I have spent fifteen years in spreading my guru's teachings in America. Now he recalls me.That...
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