Sophia Tarila, ForeWord Magazine (Fall Trade Show Issue 2003)
Walters has rewritten Yogananda’s Science of Religion into a clear captivating book, making it more accessible to spiritual seekers.


Review
Not many theologians can speak of Conscious bliss from a place of personal experience. The author, a renowned twentieth-century spiritual teacher and founder of the Self Realization Fellowship, the source behind this book, can. His personal authority lends dramatic credibility to concepts and methods for spiritual aspirants from any tradition, from uncertain agnostics to fervent believers.

Walters has rewritten and updated Yogananda's earlier The Science of Religion into this clear and thoroughly captivating book, making the original work eminently more accessible to large numbers of contemporary spiritual seekers. ...Yogananda offers an extraordinary ecumenical outlook even as he embodies age-long traditions of Indian spiritual wisdom. The rational, cognitive Western approach to religion is balanced with the wisdom and compassion so honored in the East. By synthesizing these two valuable frames of influence, God Is for Everyone helps the modern reader consider concepts of God and spiritual meaning within an intelligent, religiously unified framework.

--Sophia Tarila, ForeWord Magazine (Fall Trade Show Issue 2003)



Book Description
Inspired by Yogananda's classic The Science of Religion, here is a nondogmatic approach to religion for the agnostic and believer alike.


About the Author
J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) has been a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda’s since 1948. He has given thousands of lectures over the years in many countries, acquainting people with his Guru’s teachings. In addition, he has written over eighty books and edited two books of Yogananda’s which have become well known: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained and a compilation of sayings of the Master, The Essence of Self-Realization. Among his other books is his autobiography, The Path, which describes his three and a half years of discipleship under the great Guru until Yogananda’s death in 1952. All of these activities have been in obedience to his guru’s personal instructions. In 1968 Walters founded an intentional community near Nevada City, California, based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. The community’s name is Ananda. Since then, Walters has founded five other Ananda communities in four American states and in Italy, where he lives at present.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Spiritual religion", as explained by Paramhansa Yogananda, one of the great spiritual masters of the twentieth century, offers a pragmatic, eminently useful set of solutions to our most profound problems. The Divine Spirit is the hidden inspiration behind all that we do, the one true experience that we all seek, the lasting happiness that eludes us when we seek it elsewhere. No mere abstraction, God is a real, ever-present, ever-conscious force available for us to tap into at all times.

Importantly, this is a vision of spiritual practice that emphasizes the underlying unity of all religions, while respecting the many different ways and forms of worship. In these times of intense religious strife, this landmark approach to religious unity is certain to help usher in an era of true mutual respect and understanding among the world’s great religious traditions.

God Is for Everyone is a thrilling, compassionate exploration of our deepest human needs... and the only way to fulfill them. This book brings fresh new insight to ourselves and our most sacred practices.

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