The Essence of Kriya Yoga Paperback – January 5, 2006

Parmahansa Yogananda was the one who opened my eyes to another way of thinking about God, something EVERYONE needs to do, especially in todays fear based, extreme religious thought! Remember that GOD IS LOVE and anything, ANYTHING that deviates from that is from the DEVIL or sinfilled side of HUMANDKIND. This little book gives you a basis of a technique that realigns your body, mind and soul to sense the presence of GOD. No Church can do that, only from WITHIN can you realize the LOVE of the CREATOR!

Super quick shipping and very good book. Highly recommend! Thank you very much.

I prefer the book autobiography of a yogi.

Recommend!

Thank you so much

This collection evidently inspires some ire from reviewers because it is not clear simply from the cover that this is not a new work by Yogananda, but a collection of various texts that embody what the editor felt was "The Essence of Kriya Yoga." First, to clear up a few things:1. Paramhansa Yogananda's name was spelled as it is in this volume during the life of the great yogi's life. I have a first edition of Autobiography of a Yogi with his signature, and I am sure other copies of that edition are available for verification. I was surprised that this volume had the name correct, given the widespread misspelling, and that was what interested me in it in the first place.2. This collection contains Science of Religion and Songs of the Soul in their entirety, and not merely excerpts. Otherwise, the Autobiography, Healthy Diet, and Ladder of Evolution are excerpted as Steven indicated.3. If the works included in this volume were redundant to the Autobiography, I would not have even considered purchasing it.I only write this review to correct some flagrant misinformation. Those corrections aside, I think this is a fair publication except from the formatting, which is lackluster. It would also have been wise for the publisher to indicate on the cover that this is, in fact, a collection, and not some newly discovered work.That said, if you lack any of Yogananda's writings included in it, then it is certainly worth the price. As far as I know, this is the only publisher that has brought multiple works by the master in a single volume.

perfect!

I had been interested in the real Yoga for a long time and was searching for something that fit what I felt I was missing in my life. This book is the one that started me on my path to fulfillment.The basis of Kryia Yoga and all Yogas is a realization that we have separated ourselves from God and that our purpose here in this life is to become one with God, again.After reading this book, I have continued to read other books both sanctioned and un-sanctioned by the SFR. All of them are moving me, step by step towards the path I want to go.