Yogananda Podcast

Autobiography Chapter 16, Part 7: Sri Yukteswar’s theory of Everything


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This episode covers the next part of chapter 16: 
“The Adam and Eve story is incomprehensible to me...” 
to 
“…produced through an act of special creation by God.” 

Summary: 
Sri Yukteswar explains the profound symbolism expressed in the Adam and Eve narrative from Genesis to Paramahansa Yogananda. We carefully dissect the concepts with Cian, drawing inspiration more complete explanation from the Ashwattha Pipal tree text from the Bhagavad Gita (God Talks with Arjuna) Chapter XV:1.  We also review the benefits of having predominantly feeling or reason to govern our lives.   

0:00 Prior episode; 
2:35 The Tree of Life; 
20:45 Adam & Eve; 
26:50 The creation of man; 
36:00 Divine love vs Lust; 
42:45 Is it better to be a feminine or masculine?; 
1:03:10 Looking ahead. 

Homework for next episode— Read, absorb and make notes on the last part of chapter 16: 
“The animal forms were too crude to express...” 
to the end of the chapter.  

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