Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume II Stage Five

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The story of creation. How to Find Truth in Holy Scriptures
Part I
How to perceive the truth
Intuition is never wrong

Part II

A true scientific view of the origin
Origin or beginning of the universe according to Hindu scriptures
Part III
Part IV
Interpretation of the first book of Moses
Part V
Interpretation of the first book of Moses. The concept of the universe according to the holy scriptures of the Hindus
Mayan
Spirit and matter
"We" are expressions of the Seven Spirits
Let's make a man in our image
"We"
Special spiritual exercises
Feel the Cosmic Consciousness in the body
Feel God in the life force that tightens and loosens the tissues of the body
Feel God in pure consciousness
Christ Consciousness

Part VI

Interpretation of the first book of Moses
Adam and Eve
Tree of Life
Beginning of sexual creation
2. Weekly instruction. Only those who have experienced God know Him
3. Weekly instruction. You are the ocean that has turned into a bubble
Practice the following exercise
four. Weekly instruction. The Secret of True Religion
5. Weekly instruction. How to discover the truth
6. Weekly Instruction
7. Scientific and Spiritual Healing Methods
Part I
The Horrors of Disease
Why is the disease so terrible?
Find God
Ignorance is the cause of all misery
Cause of Nervousness and Healing
Part II
Relationship of mind to body
Willpower is a very powerful factor in healing
Preparation is necessary before healing
Heal with Divine Will
Revisiting the second part

8. Weekly instruction. Vibration of the Spirit, the great sound of OM
Weekly approval
Prayer for Preceptum
9. Path to immortality
Part I
How the body is maintained
How to realize the TRUTH
Revisiting the first part
Part II
Meditation is the path to immortality
Form a habit of meditation
God is always a new joy
Meditation on God as OM
Practicing with open eyes
10. Fairy Tale of Divine Love
Part I
Part II

11. How to Get Divine Attention
Weekly approval
12. Bird of Paradise
13. Prayer
1four. Soul Magnetism
Development through own efforts
Universal Magnetism
Spiritual magnetism vs animal magnetism
Hypnotism is very harmful
spiritual exercise
Re-review
15. The pious who sought spiritual freedom
16. Overcoming fear and failure through meditation
Eliminate fear and thoughts of failure
Fearlessness is a wonderful virtue
17. Laws of success in life
Short stories about success
Ladder to success
18. Higher vibration and occult phenomenon
Part I
Law of Vibrations
Vibration according to people
Vibrations of thoughts and conclusions
soul vibration
Be a Divine Magnet
Part II
water baptism
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Baptism with the Christ Consciousness
Baptize human consciousness
19. Seek God in the Temple of Peace
20. Christian faith and Hinduism
Christianity and Christian consciousness
The idea of ​​the holy trinity
21. Be in the world, but do not be of this world
22. Learn to love nature
23. Major Virtues
Faith, Hope and Love
Faith is proof of the invisible
The greatest of virtues is love

2four. Space ghosts
The truth about mind and matter
Top 10 disappointments
Methods for getting rid of delusions
Meditation is a cure for cosmic delusions
Limitation of the senses
There is no time or space
25. Ability of the spiritual eye
26. Life after death
Eternity is always new
What a wise man sees
eternity of the soul
27. Resurrection
Part I
Part II
spiritual resurrection
Sunday
Part III
How to Attain Christ Consciousness
Conscious, subconscious and superconscious
How to expand consciousness
Cultivate sympathy and selflessness
Metaphysical Path to Christ Consciousness
28. Steps to Self-Realization
1. STORY OF CREATION. HOW TO FIND THE TRUTH IN THE HOLY WRITINGS

Part I
All beautiful and valuable things are usually hidden under the cover of secrecy. Gems are found in hidden places, and all that is valuable we must seek with the hoe of wisdom and understanding.
The ocean is ready to pour itself into the cup, but the cup can only absorb as much as its volume allows. So the truth is in the Bible, but people with limited intellect cannot understand it, because they do not know how and do not try to go to the truth in such a way that it can be known. We need to try to open the right way to know the Truth.
The question is not what is truth, but how much we can perceive of truth; to find the real truth, you need to experience it in life. I asked one rogue if he had read the Christian Bible. He replied: "I have read it a hundred times, sir, I know everything about it." "Unfortunately," I said, "you don't know anything about the Bible because you're still a knave." It is no coincidence that in ancient India the Vedas and the Hindu Bible "Bhagavad Gita" were not printed for centuries. They were handed down from memory by pious disciples, and only a few knew the whole truth. Others were not told more than they could realize at the time. Nowadays, every yoga nova book, holy scriptures or Christian Bible can be bought for a few cents and can be intellectually swallowed. However, our own ideas about the holy scriptures, without assimilation of them, only give rise to a desire to read more books and perceive more and more ideas, resulting in chronic indigestion and spiritual indigestion.
One thirsty man once came to the lake and, seeing him, wanted to drink all the water. However, he found that he could not drink more than the size of his stomach would allow. Likewise, many thirsty philosophers and seekers sit by the great lake of truth, who want to drink all the waters of truth and claim all the secrets for themselves, but unfortunately they do not know that this is impossible. If someone wants to drink all the waters of the lake of truth, then he needs to have a stomach as big as the lake.
Western philosophers have always thought that truth can be perceived through dialectics or the mind. Immanuel Kant was the first to raise the question of whether a person has the abilities that are necessary for the correct knowledge of the truth.
All religions must be carefully justified. Over-study should be avoided. The study of religious books indiscriminately written by beginners and inexperienced enthusiasts, in most cases, results in a mixture of indigestible fantasies, inflamed feelings and weak implementation. Patanjali's Yogi philosophy, the Christian Bible, the Bhagavad Gita and some other books should be studied only a little at a time, and one should meditate on what one reads for hours or days. The best time to read the holy scriptures is after meditation, when the intuitive senses are awake. condition.
Books of spiritual truths cannot be read the way you read novels, but they must continually inspire you, because this will give constant spiritual nourishment, and the more you digest them, the more you will achieve in understanding this truth. My Master taught me this way. He commanded me to meditate for hours on these truths and taught me how to perceive them. Then one day he told me that he would no longer teach me. He said, "Go and study the holy scriptures and you will understand every place wherever you open a book." Each intellectual phase of scriptural study has to be proved by the corresponding realization, and then one has to read and realize a little more, and so on.
How to perceive the truth
How can one verify the truth of the holy scriptures? How can you check which bible is correct? Here is the Hindu Bible, the Christian Bible and the Mohammedan Bible. How can you know which one contains the truth? Many of them are not true. The fact that many people believe known interpretations does not prove that this is true. Sometimes one person knows more than the whole world knows. Columbus said the earth was round, but no one believed him. Most people are like a flock of sheep. If anyone wants to jump off a cliff, the whole herd will follow him.
There are two methods of knowing the truth - intellectual and intuitive. The intellectual method depends on the perception of the sense organs and the intellect, but the perception of the sense organs deceives us or gives us limited information. If you base your receipt of truth on the perceptions of the senses, then the result may be wrong. All our senses are limited, and therefore we can only perceive limited truth through the intellect.
We find that all consequential knowledge depends on these sense organs. If the data is wrong, then the conclusion is wrong. Therefore, with the help of the mind, it is impossible to prove the truth of the Bible. In addition, our senses are so limited that we are constantly deceived. You see only through your limited visual ability. You only hear the known vibrations of matter, hearing is also limited.
Intuition is never wrong
Intuition develops through meditation, so it can never be wrong. However, this power in most cases remains undeveloped in us. We realize that we exist only through intuition. That you exist does not require any thinking or feeling for you to know. Intuition is the power that controls truth.
You must feel the truth before you can know that it is the truth. What is true to be understood or perceived by the senses is not always actually true. The only way to know truth is to realize it intuitively. To know the atom, you have to become an atom. You need to become what you want to know. Can you know the taste of sugar without tasting it? No. Also with metaphysics. The metaphysician experiences every thing in itself. The scientist, on the other hand, experiments with every thing outside himself.
Pure thinking and pure feeling lead to intuition. The more you meditate and think in a calm position, the more intuition you will have. To test the truth, it must be experienced intuitively. All Eastern philosophy is based on intuitive experience. No matter how intellectually advanced you are, you can be a child in terms of spiritual realization. You need to convince yourself and realize the truth. You must experience the truth yourself before you can know that it is the truth. This is the power