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Paperback, 660 pages, ISBN: 978-81-89430-35-1, Ananda Sangha Publications.
Product Description:
The New Path is the fascinating tale of one man's search for truth. It is often considered a companion to Autobiography of a Yogi, for it continues Yoganandaji’s story past where he ended its pages.
This first-hand account reveals through the disciple’s eyes his life and training with his guru during the last four years of his life. Swami Kriyananda presents Yoganandaji as a true spiritual sage and master, indeed an avatar, whose work in the West revolutionized how people perceive themselves and their life purpose. He tells over four hundred stories about the great Master, including rare anecdotes of times at his desert retreat and his mahasamadhi.
The New Path recounts how as a young man J. Donald Walters examined and discarded as false many of the promises offered by modern society.
Gradually he realized that lasting human happiness comes not from outer success, but from deepening spiritual awareness. Eventually his searching brought him to the door of one of the spiritual giants of this century, Paramhansa Yogananda—author of Autobiography of a Yogi.
What ensues is Swami Kriyananda’s spiritual training under Yogananda, who showed him a clear path to the attainment of spiritual ideals through the practice of the science of deep yoga meditation.
The yoga philosophy and way of life are explained vividly through stories and sayings from Kriyanandaji's experience of living with Yogananda.
Living the spiritual life, as a close disciple of Yogananda eventually inspired Swami Kriyananda to found a spiritual community and worldwide movement, so as to better share with others Yogananda’s principles and teachings.
The New Path offers a wealth of practical and inspirational wisdom. Indeed, it holds for those seeking it the transforming power of a true spiritual classic.
What Others Are Saying:
The New Path is a deeply moving revelation of one man’s poignant search for truth. With this book, Kriyananda provides us with a rarely seen portrait of the joys and the problems of the spiritual path. The Path is filled with profound insight and practical advice for the novice and the more advanced seeker. I cannot conceive of anyone not deriving value from reading Kriyananda's life story. —Michael Toms, founder & President, New Dimensions Radio; author of True Work
The New Path provides clues to the synthesis of East and West, and testifies to the opening of hearts and minds to a new age. —David Spangler, author of Everyday Miracles and The Reimagination of the World
[P]erfectly captures the personality of Paramhansa Yogananda. I am delighted that my brother disciple has produced this monumental work. I highly recommend The New Path. —Roy Eugene Davis, founder and Director, Center for Spiritual Awareness; author, Paramahansa Yogananda As I Knew Him, The Science of Becoming Excellent, and How to Use Your Creative Immagination.
Your openness, your undeviating devotion to a life of love and service, and your joyous good humor express themselves in your book . . . it came to an end too soon! —Ken Keyes, Jr., author, Handbook to Higher Consciousness and Your Life is a Gift
This book let me see inside the life and teaching of a great modern saint. Yogananda found a worthy Boswell to convey not only the man but the spirit of the man. —James Fadiman, author, Unlimiting Your Life and Essential Sufism
When one has been moved to laughter and tears, deep contemplation and joyful insight, as I have been while immersed in The New Path, it is hardly possible to find a word or phrase sufficient to encompass the enriching experience. "Deeply inspiring"—though hardly adequate—is the best way I can find to describe it. —John W. White, author, Thinking the Unthinkable
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