[BoM] The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You ~ May ‘08

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You: A Revelatory Commentary on the Original Teachings of Jesus - Volumes I and II
Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Published: 2004, First Edition
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From back cover:
“In titling this work The Second Coming of Christ, I am not referring to a literal return of Jesus to earth … A thousand Christs sent to earth would not redeem its people unless they themselves became Christlike by purifying and expanding their individual consciousness to receive therein the second coming of the Christ Consciousness, as was manifested in Jesus … Contact with this Consciousness, experienced in the ever new joy of meditation, will be the real second coming of Christ - and it will take place right in the devotee’s own consciousness.”

In this unprecedented masterwork of inspiration, Paramahansa Yogananda takes the reader on a profoundly enriching journey through the four Gospels. Verse by verse, he illuminates the universal path to oneness with God taught by Jesus to his immediate disciples but obscured through centuries of misinterpretation: “how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one’s Self.”

Never before available in its entirety, this landmark work by one of the most revered spiritual teachers of our time transcends divisive sectarianism to reveal unifying harmony underlying all true religions. A groundbreaking synthesis of East and West, it imparts the life-transforming realization that each of us can experience for ourselves the promised Second Coming - awakening of the all-fulfilling Divine Consciousness latent within our souls.

“A masterpiece of divine insight … [Yogananda's interpretation] is not a product of scholarly study or comparison of existing Biblical commentaries, but has come forth in an awe-inspiring originality from the deeps of an unerring spiritual and intuitional judgment. It will live when whole libraries of intellectual theorizings on Christ have long been forgotten - the most important clarification of his teachings that has ever been offered the Christian world.”

- The Reverend Arthur Porter, D.D.

“Yogananda was a God-filled seer and saint, philosopher and poet who experienced a multitude of the innumerable aspects of Ultimate Reality … A rare genius who has penetrated further than most men into the secrets of spiritual existence.”

- Raymond F. Piper, Ph.D,
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,
Syracuse University, New York