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Date Posted: 04:59:22 11/16/02 Sat
Author: Anonymous-30Oct02
Subject: Re: SRF Wins Copyright Lawsuit against Ananda !!!!!
In reply to: Anonymous-30Oct02 's message, "Re: SRF Wins Copyright Lawsuit against Ananda !!!!!" on 04:58:31 11/16/02 Sat

Food for thought.........

Yogananda wrote the following about Jesus Christ (see the "Second Coming of Christ", vol. II, published by Amrita Foundation, see page 176 and following):

"Because Jesus was human and divine and by spiritual labor reaped the plenteous spiritual harvest of God Consciousness, therefore the Heavenly Father sent him on earth TO WORK OUT HIS LAST EFFORTS FOR FINAL SALVATION THERE. AT THE SAME TIME, WHILE JESUS WAS STRIVING TO ATTAIN HIS FINALITY ON EARTH, HE WAS TO SERVE AS A SPIRITUAL EXAMPLE TO MISERY-LADEN PEOPLE OF THE EARTH."

"All the prophets of God who come on earth were tempted and had to overcome certain human frailties in order to attain the final state of Cosmic Consciousness.... But when human beings find that Jesus was tempted but by his divine consciousness overcame his human consciousness then they, too, hope and feel encouraged to overcome their own strong temptations."

In SRF's posterior literature, we have learned that avatars come to earth already fully God-realized and liberated. However, Yogananda in his first writings, wrote the following (see his first Bible commentaries, same book):

"All Masters, WHEN THEY ARE ALMOST FULLY SPIRITUALLY DEVELOPED, come on earth through the will of God to carry out His special dispensations. These Masters are often called Incarnations of God."

"Masters are distinguished according to the number of Christlike souls they have helped to produce on earth and according to the number of people they have inspired during their stay on earth. Jesus created eleven Masters from his twelve disciples. Lahiri Mahasaya created almost as many Masters--one of them was Sriyukteswarji, my own teacher."

See also Yogananda's own definition of "Yogavatar" (Inner Culture magazine, January 1937):

Meaning of "Yogavatar"

Lahiri is the family title of Brahmins to which Yogavatar Shama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya belonged. Mahasaya signifies "high soul". Yogavatar means "the awakened incarnation of God", (Avatar) one who came to earth to demonstrate the technique which would enable students to accomplish the scientific union (Yoga) of soul and Spirit by their own effort. In a later article I shall explain the meaning of Avatar more elaborately.

I give Lahiri the title of Yogavatar because in him and through him the highest form of Yoga or step-by-step scientific union with God has been handed down to the world. God can be known through inner wisdom, not book-learning, and through royal Yogic union of soul and spirit by different methods of consciously-pursued meditation, not blind meditation. It is by God-manifesting karma (action) and not by following any moral (but God-obliterating) action, that Spirit is revealed. By inner soul-touching devotion and not by holy-rolling, muscle-contorting, insincere devotion, or blind devotion, one can know God.

Lahiri thus deserves the title Yogavatar, one of the greatest incarnations of God which descended in flesh. From flesh he ascended to complete realization of Spirit by step-by-step methods of realization. All human beings are His children, in whom God is potentially present in His fullness. That is why Lahiri Mahasaya pointed the actual way by which each deluded man could bring out his potential Godhood into distinct consciousness, and reclaim his hidden Godhood, becoming one with Him.

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  • Re: SRF Wins Copyright Lawsuit against Ananda !!!!! -- Mike-30Oct02, 04:59:55 11/16/02 Sat
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