The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ within You a Revelatory [Jan 01, 2007] Yogananda, Paramahansa Paperback – June 5, 2007

I highly recommend this monumental work to those students whose personal dharma leads them toward the unification of Christianity with the various Ageless Wisdom traditions reflected in Hinduism, Buddhism and Theosophy. I would point out a marked similarity between the beliefs expressed in this book and those laid out in great detail in the books written by the Tibetan master, Djwhal Khul, through Alice A. Bailey. For those who prefer a shorter study, I recommend Yogananda’s condensed book “The Yoga of Jesus”, which at 160 pages, is only one-tenth the length of “The Resurrection of the Christ Within You”.Through this studious explanation of the Gospels, Christians can begin to see that the Christ Jesus was an Initiate; a Yogi Who was possessed of far greater secrets than those that are openly shared in the Holy Bible. We can all begin to understand that Jesus taught His disciples many deeper truths, including the science of yoga as well as other concrete information about the underlying structure of life, the human body and its energy centers and how to raise the kundalini (or serpent force) within the etheric channels in the spine. Christians are also given ample evidence of reincarnation as a fundamental belief among the Jews of the time, as well as the early Christians.Furthermore, the form of Kriya Yoga which Paramahansa Yogananda alludes to in this book, and teaches in his Lessons, he asserts is virtually identical to the method used by Bhagavan Krishna, the Christ Jesus as well as many saints and mystics from diverse Paths, to achieve Their liberation from form through union with Spirit. Yogananda states that the techniques of Kriya Yoga can be used by disciples to eventually achieve union with the Aum Vibration, the Christ Consciousness, and then the ultimate goal of union with the Cosmic Consciousness of the Father.