I'm going to have trouble expressing myself as I'm not a native English speaker S:

Have any of you read that book? I find it quite interesting and VERY enlightening. Maybe I'm too young to fully understand it as I'm only 16, but still.

But it basically describes that once a person reaches a certain state of mind (when your soul has 'canceled' all of it's karma and has learned so much that there isn't a proper body for it anywhere to learn even more), you can leave your body conciously and become one with the higher force (not the stereotypical Christian God). Yogananda did that himself, he didn't actually die.

It also tells you about the 'laws' that rule in the spiritual world. Like, nothing can exist without it's opposite (light without dark, cold without heat, good without bad) and such (aka karma).

The thing that caught my eye aswell, was when it said that a baby is born dead; It's because the soul that has inhabited it realized that there will be nothing new to learn in it's life, so the soul left the body.

What I'm trying to ask is, has anyone read that book and fully understood it?

What are your thoughts on it? Do you believe in anything it says?

Also, have you read the text the Self-Realization Fellowship (if you're a member) sends you? Occassionally it has an 'educational' story in it, but I've only read one a few years back and don't remember it fully, but I think it's based on the fact that if you BELIEVE in something, it WILL happen.

this would be much more interesting if you would allow for people to discuss the ideas presented rather than just promote anyone that has read the book.

Heh, I wasn't sure, since the book discusses religion :P

yeah, i'm sure that's the reason

Hurr, durr.

Sounds a lot like doing drugs to me.

Hmm. Sounds like these two religions... er..

OHWAIT.

Maybe Hinduism and Buddhism? Nirvana?

It's nothing, new really. If the debate were 'do you think we reach Nirvana', then there might be something to discuss.

It's about as deep as the Bible. Which is really, really not all that deep.

This isn't a debate, I'm moving this to Literature.

There's more to the Bible than a lot of people see. I shouldn't be the one talking as I don't fully understand it, nor am I really interested in it. But I've read some literature concerning it and I believe there's more to it than your average person can understand.

And I wasn't aware that the thing was called Nirvana. Heh XD Also thanks for moving this into the correct forum :)

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