Moments of Truth, Volume One

86 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h04min.
The Moments of Truth series Little Books, Big Wisdom Condensations of some of the greatest scriptures of our time, the Moments of Truth series takes spiritual truths and makes them easily accessible. Small, pocket-sized editions will allow you to bring these nuggets of wisdom with you on your travels — whether on pilgrimage or to the workplace. Start and end your day with a gem of inspiration with these carefully chosen excerpts from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained, Autobiography of a Yogi, TheEssence of the Bhagavad Gita, and more! One day, as I was deeply concentrated on the pages of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, I suddenly beheld the walls of its outer meanings crumble away. Lo! vast inner meanings opened like a golden treasure house before my gaze. — Paramhansa Yogananda Moments of Truth, Volume One: Excerpts from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained is the first in a series of small books of excerpts from the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, as set forth in his own books and in those of his close disciple, Swami Kriyananda. The gems of wisdom in this little volume are taken fromYogananda’s commentaries on The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, considered by Westerners a celebration of earthly pleasures, but widely recognized in the East as a work of profound spirituality. Yogananda’s commentaries are a true scripture in their own right. These selections have scripture’s power to change your consciousness, and your life. From the book: “Behold this one flaming truth: All life is fleeting. Cling to that understanding, and seek, then, within yourself that which alone endures.”Moments of Truth, Volume One Excerpts from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained By Paramhansa Yogananda Edited by Swami Kriyananda ( J. Donald Walters) Introduction This book contains nuggets of wisdom excerpted from one of the great works of modern times: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained, by Paramhansa Yogananda. The excerpts here contained are not from the poem itself, but from the commentary. They are words to live by: wise insights by one of the great spiritual figures of our times that have the power profoundly to change people’s lives. As Yogananda explains in The Rubaiyat . . . Explained, Omar Khayyam’s work is deeply spiritual; it is not, as most Westerners believe, a poem in praise of earthly pleasures. Taking the inner meaning of this work to ever greater depths, Paramhansa Yogananda produced one of his own deepest and most profoundly moving spiritual works. — Swami Kriyananda The Excerpts Stanza 6—God is Eternal Silence. To those who love Him purely He speaks through the voice of silent intuition. Stanza 7—Waste not these few, precious earth years. The bird of life has but a short arc of time to fly. Soon — ah, how sadly soon! — it will slip its earthly form and vanish into the Infinite. Stanza 9—Odiscerning one! rise above life’s dualities, above the endless gradations of relativity. Lo! every plan for success, so wantonly embraced; every looming disaster, so fearfully denied — all have as their sum total: zero! What are they but fictions — fleeting mind-children in life’s constantly changing dream. Ignore them!