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The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels
by Paramahansa Yogananda
from Self Realization Fellowship Pub

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• misrepresentation of the gospel
  First off, the Bible isn't hiding anything. There are messages, but what we need to know isn't hidden, and definitely not found through PY. Second, look at the front cover. It quotes Luke 17:21 as Jesus says "The Kingdom of God is within you." Now this quote is not misrepresentation, as even the original Hebrew and Greek scriptures state this verse basically the same way. BUT the verse is taken out of context as to what Jesus was saying as a WHOLE. Before this passage, the pharisees were asking when the... more info

• Puts Jesus' teachings/life in proper perspective
  Very simply, it explains what happenned to Jesus after he went "east" and came back teaching something very different. It puts Jesus' teachings/life in proper perspective.
  I only gave four stars because the book is really a primer for the author's giant book: Second Coming of Christ. So you jump around a bit.
  Just say it is a primer for another book on the cover.

• Not quite a home run, but a stand up triple!!
  While I would agree that this book is of very high value, it seems to me that a lot of great topics were glossed over and didn't reach the depth of insight that I have come to know and love from Paramahansa Yogananda. My opinion is a bit biased, as I own and am currently reading his most elegant tome: "The Second Coming of Christ," which is quite detailed and has an abundance of depth to it. "The Yoga of Jesus" is of course a watered down version of "Second Coming" and is certainly well worth the time if... more info

• Yoga of Jesus
  Great book written by a great man. It has renewed my perspective on Christ (original perspective was that of a Catholic who received First Communion in a French church in Rabbat Morocco, and later attended Catechism in Southern Spain as child). The author, Yogananda, really taps into the beauty and truths that I always suspected were the things that all religions had in common.

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