How You Can Talk With God (Self-Realization Fellowship) - Softcover

Paramahansa Yogananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876121601 ISBN 13: 9780876121603

Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1957

Synopsis

In this classic guide, a renowned spiritual teacher answers the question: Is it really possible to talk with God and receive definite responses to our prayers? How You Can Talk with Godexplains how we can all experience God s presence directly in our lives. A favorite of spiritual seekers around the world, it shows the reader how to pray with greater intimacy to create a deep and fulfilling personal relationship with the Divine. This is a book to keep by the bedside, discovering with each reading new gems of inspiration and wisdom.

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About the Author:

Hailed as "the father of Yoga in the West", Paramahansa Yogananda - author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi - is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Born in India on January 5, 1893, he devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Daya Mata, one of his earliest and closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 1955. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world.

Review:

"Yogananda dispels the notion held by most people that direct contact with God is beyond their reach....Millions of readers who were introduced to the spiritual wisdom of the East through "Autobiography of a Yogi.,."will find the same deep inspiration and wisdom in the pages of "How You Can Talk with God." -- Reviewer "Arkansas State Press (Little Rock)"

About this edition

• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0876121601
• ISBN 13: 9780876121603
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 40