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Date Posted: 04:30:28 11/09/03 Sun
Author: nojdw - 12 Oct 2003
Subject: "....he isn't physically here to check my efforts."

Give me a damn break!!
nojdw

(Who is the gaucho, amigo?)



From Kriyananda's preface:

God Is for Everyone

Inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda


As Taught to, and Understood by, his Disciple,
J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda)


Preface
This book was first intended to be a slightly polished version of Paramhansa Yogananda's first literary offering, The Science of Religion, which he published in 1920 before coming to America from his native land, India. Instead, it has become a new book. The message, though expanded upon, is the same, though I don't suppose a sentence of the original remains. I have written it as though it had been penned by Yogananda himself. This method has often been employed by disciples of a great master. In Paramhansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi we are told that his guru's guru, Lahiri Mahasaya, would sometimes tell a disciple, "Please expound the holy [scripture] stanzas as the meaning occurs to you. . . . I will guide your thoughts, that the right interpretation be uttered." (1) In this way Yogananda continued, many of Lahiri Mahasaya's perceptions were recorded and published.

Though all my books represent a conscious attempt to be an instrument for his teaching, it must be said that this one has been more so. It was a sincere effort to rewrite his book for him — as a ghostwriter if you like, though he isn't physically here to check my efforts. I present it as his book because all the ideas are, deliberately on my part, his own. This present version will, I hope, be easier to comprehend and more enjoyable to read. For although the first edition contained wonderful teachings, it stated them so weightily that many a daunted reader has not remained with it to the end.

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