Your presence helps me to approach it simply, one day at a time. In answer to our concern that he must be finding our presence a distraction from this work, he replied, "On the contrary, it is helping me! I find the whole project so awe-inspiring that I’ve felt almost overwhelmed by it. Throughout our visit, Swamiji, while playing the loving host-chatting with us for hours, going out with us to shops and to dinner-spent all his free time working on this manuscript. The prospect that your coming, he said to us, "might possibly disrupt my line of thinking was what ‘put me over the edge,’ in the sense that it brought me to a resolution of my dilemma! I felt I must begin work, or else lose whatever clarity I’d arrived at for the project already."Īctually, it was only a week or more after our arrival that he came to realize that, instead of writing the brief overview he’d first intended, he had actually launched (or been launched!) on writing the whole Gita. I had long been wanting to tackle the whole Gita, but that project, though it held paramount importance for me, also frightened me both because of its magnitude and because of its supreme importance. My first thought, he told us, was to write a slim volume, as in fact I called it in the first introduction I wrote. He had been struggling for several weeks with the problem of how to approach it.
We arrived in India for a three-week visit the day Swami Kriyananda began writing this book.
In this, his masterpiece, he declares, "Yogananda's insights into the Gita are the most amazing, thrilling, and helpful of any I have ever read." Read more The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, Kriyananda's eighty-sixth book, is the crowning achievement of his highly productive life. Kriyananda has in his lifetime lectured, taught, and written eighty-five books based on Yogananda's teachings. At that time Yogananda commissioned him to disseminate his teachings world-wide. Swami Kriyananda worked with Paramhansa Yogananda in 1950 while the Master completed his commentary. The themes presented are universal: how to achieve victory in life in union with the divine how to prepare for life's "final exam," death, and what happens afterward how to triumph over all pain and suffering. This revelation of India's best-loved scripture approaches it from an entirely fresh perspective, showing its deep allegorical meaning and also its down-to-earth practicality. The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda shares the profound insights of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, as remembered by one of his few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda. Rarely in a lifetime does a new spiritual classic appear that has the power to change people's lives and transform future generations.
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