This newly revised and expanded edition of this life-changing book commemorates Swami Kriyananda's 60th year of discipleship to Yogananda. It includes a new cover and introduction and special sections not published in the original. Seventy years ago, a young American of thirteen dedicated himself to a search for truth. He at once rejected the values to which he'd been raised: prosperity, security, social acceptance and worldly ambition. But where lay the answers? He began with science; proceeded to social reform and then sought self-transformation through the arts. Each path he tried led to a dead end. At last he realised that the only force in history that has done any lasting good is religion. In a moving chapter of this book he describes how he agonised over the question, 'What is God?' The answer he received led him at last to Autobiography of a Yogi, and, thence, to its author, Paramhansa Yogananda, whom he accepted as his guru. The rest of the book is the only extant, complete account of what it was like to live in close proximity to that great man of God - one who, our author deeply believes, was destined to bring major changes to the world.
"Here, the teaching, the message, and the life of Paramhansa Yogananda are illuminated in a way that makes it possible for us to not only easily access his timeless wisdom, but - through the living example of one of Master's most devoted disciples - actually apply Eternal Truth to our present-day life. It is impossible for me to think of a greater gift that humanity could receive at this critical time..." - Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God "The New Path is a beautiful account of the experience of working with a great master. It's a book to be treasured for the breadth and depth of its portrayal of one of the great saints of our time as well as the devotion of its author."-Swami Chetanananda, Director, Nityananda Institute, author of The Breath of God
Author Biography:
One of the foremost spiritual teachers of Yoga principles in the world. In 1948, at the age of twenty-two, he became a disciple of the Indian yoga master and world teacher, Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic, Autobiography of a Yogi). At Yogananda's request, Swami Kriyananda devoted his life to teaching and writing, and helping others to experience the joy and living presence of God within. Over the course of more than sixty years, he lectured on four continents in seven languages. His television programs, audio and video recordings of his talks and music, and his many books in twenty-eight languages have touched the lives of millions. Swami Kriyananda took the ancient teachings of Raja Yoga and made them intensely practical and immediately useful for people in every walk of life, on a daily basis. His books and teachings cover nearly every field of human endeavor, including spiritualizing business life, leadership, education, the arts, community life, and science. He wrote extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Swami Kriyananda was also known as the "father of the intentional communities movement," which began in the United States in the late 1960s. Inspired by his guru's dream of establishing spiritual communities, in 1968 he founded the first of what are now ten Ananda communities worldwide. They provide a supportive environment of "simple living and high thinking," where a thousand full-time residents live, work, and worship together. "The time has come for people to live lives of even higher dedication than that which inspired monks and nuns of the past. . . . The time has come for people to direct their spiritual awareness also downward into matter . . . to everything they do: their work, to education, to family life, to friendship, to their communications with strangers, to the way they build their homes - to all the most mundane, practical aspects of daily, human life. "Men need now to become God-centered from within, and from that center to see God everywhere, in everything." - Cities of Light by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
