Paramahansa Yogananda's Teachings

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New Atlantis should be there.
King Canute on the Seashore
The Sahara Park and Gardens
On making good things last
Many children

New Atlantis and Exciting Sahara Gardens with Waterfalls: Think Big

Eager for new experiences, you feel very open. Let it be for your own good.

Where to put it.

The sands of the Sahara desert were once like a garden or savannah. However, the climate gradually changed, and now Sahara is the greatest desert on the planet. "Long before recorded history, the Sahara was evidently more widely occupied. Stone artifacts, fossils, and rock art, widely scattered through regions now far too dry for occupation, reveal the former human presence, together with that of game animals, including antelopes, buffalo, giraffe, elephant, rhinoceros, and warthog. Bone harpoons, accumulations of shells, and the remains of fish, crocodiles, and hippopotamuses are associated with prehistoric settlements along the shores of ancient Saharan lakes [Ebu, "Sahara"]."
The Sahara region may become a blossoming idyl again in time, and feel very, very open to such a huge blessing to mankind. We feel just as open to see true gurus and Christian believers throw mountains into the sea according to plan, to build a New Atlantis. "Hurrah," you may say, "a good idea - nay, two." But wait - is anyone known to have thrown mountains thus? It is in the Bible, is it true anyhow?

Tasks fit for True Followers of Christ Too

"Are stunning feats really fit to show off?" some duped ones may ask. Well, don't be too shy to put God to the test and let him prove himself. In short: try to accomplish what those with faith is said to have got the power to do, and drop the hundred excuses. That could do good. He might be really eager too, you cannot disregard that . . . [Malachi 3:10; John 14:12, etc.].
Have you throught that many sayings of Jesus in the gospels don't mean a thing? Not just the one about throwing mountains; there are others too. In case you doubt - which is OK - here is an admirable task for excellent persons: Let someone with the right sort of faith command top suitable parts of Tibet and the Andes to gather in the sea outside Portugal to form a New Atlantis - well shaped, perfectly adjusted to ocean currents, with large plains and a range of mountains in the north, middle and perhaps the north-east too, to make the climate almost too good. The size of this new land could be four times the size of Portugal, to give a hint (see the red dot on the map). There is place for it. It could be needed.

The future Sahara Garden: Vizualise it.

Further, it is assumed that your dealings just lower a lot of mountains and plateaus in, say, Tibet and Andes, so that no one gets hurt, all get satisfied, the climate in both places improves for far more thriving.
Ahh, two noble tasks are etched out right in front of you here. The gospel's Jesus tells that the true follower has faith to do things like this, so why does it not happen? It is because the gospels give false instructions or there are no true followers of his without doubt. Faking, duped and conform followers do not show the marks of having the gospel faith that babies and various seeds have. Their innate handling is hardly and preferably not sawed down by impressing padre words.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. [Matthew 21:20-22]

Judged by the stark lack of such feats, there were never any true followers. And do you know what the Holy Ghost and all the apostles agreed on right after Jesus were gone? They dispensed with the commandments and sayings of Jesus, to be sure. It is all there, in Acts 15 and 21:25. Many tricksters who say "Lord, Lord," are unsure in these matters. It is no wonder. The Bible is there to confound them. Do not let it puzzle you.
It could be well to know, too, that the guru Paramahansa Yogananda told his own guru had power over all the forces of nature - now it is high time to stand up to prove it in a very, very constructive vein. "That guru is dead," you might retort, as if it matters! You see, Yogananda tells somewhere that his guru came back from the dead to shoo Satan off Yogananda's chest so that he could breathe again . . . The alarming story is "Yogananda, the Devil, and the Greater Enemy": [LINK]
Those who believe it is not too late to summon some almighty all-knower to such a task, should indeed do so. "Are the dead good at (for) something, set them to the tasks that matter," is the strong, quite biblical idea behind "Let the dead bury their dead" too . . .
Back to the issue great faith would have you do, if you claim to have what is needed and do not "chicken out" and try to mask your pathetic braying by evasions and nonsense without end. And if you cannot accomplish this seemingly fine thing, cut the crap.

"Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I . . . pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. Is not 2000 years of mountain-thrower failures enough? [Malachi 3:10]
"Those who can, do. Those who cannot do, preach [Saying]."

To be a maker of the New Atlantis and Sahara Gardens means to have a fit faith. Now, great compassion with those high up in the icy cold mountain areas, and with those who lack water and pastures, and all who lack land to settle on these days or live in North Canada, might get channeled into it too.

King Canute on the Seashore

The mighty king and the waves

It's an error to get tics if the friendly tide disobeys you.

A HUNDRED years or more after the time of Saxon king Alfred, the Danish king of England was called Canute. The great men and officers who were around King Canute were always praising him.
"You are the greatest man that ever lived," one would say.
Then another would say, "O king! there can never be another man so mighty as you."
And another would say, "Great Canute, there is nothing in the world that dares to disobey you."
The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches.
One day he was by the seashore, and his officers were with him. They were praising him, as they were in the habit of doing. He thought that now he would teach them a lesson, and so he bade them set his chair on the beach close by the edge of the water.
"Am I the greatest man in the world?" he asked.
"O king!" they cried, "there is no one so mighty as you."
"Do all things obey me?" he asked.
"There is nothing that dares to disobey you, O king!" they said. "The world bows before you, and gives you honor."
"Will the sea obey me?" he asked; and he looked down at the little waves which were lapping the sand at his feet.
The foolish officers were puzzled, but they did not dare to say "No."
"Command it, king! and it will obey," said one.
"Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther! Waves, stop your rolling, and do not dare to touch my feet!"
But the tide came in, just as it always did. The water rose higher and higher. It came up around the king's chair, and wet not only his feet, but also his robe. His officers stood about him, alarmed and wondering all at once.
Canute took off his crown, and placed it on the sand.
"I won't wear it again," he said. "And do you, my men, learn a lesson from what you have seen."

"I have heard ...", said Lord Sandwich in a debate, "of the words 'orthodoxy' and 'heterodoxy'; but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely what they mean.
"Orthodoxy ...," said Bishop Walburton in a whisper, "Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."

THERE IS ample wisdom in handed-over Nordic traditions. As for Fathers of Orthodoxy, for many centuries in Europe, none or very few had the time to muse as they had.

It is suggested you avoid trying something rash till your dear faith is strong and effective. Emulate Canute the Mighty first, for example. That should be better than drinking deadly poison in the name of Jesus and find out how the faith is - So now comes an interesting experiment free for all to engage in - the Sahara Woodland!

Sahara Woodlands - Nothing Better?

A good thing allows itself to be tested: Prepare for the deep Sahara laughter against outsmarting teachings.

One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants. - British wisdom. [Dp]

Say "no thanks" to the quite improbable vision the sooner the better.

Neat investigation can revolve around this: Are some of Yogananda's masters almighty just because they say it or allow their emissary Yogananda to decree it about them? To check out things a bit, ask for a wonderful Sahara Desert demonstration.
Granted that we cannot survey much outside the planet in first-hand ways, allow the man of strong almightiness claims to take a plane to the Sahara desert and soak it with freshwater from seemingly nowhere at his bidding. It is much wanted. And it is quite attuned to what any normal follower of the original Christianity of Jesus is said to be able to. He is to cast mountains into the sea and much else - so there you are - great promises are not wanting [cf. John 14;12.].
Let us agree that SOMEONE (one of the true followers of Jesus or an almighty guy) should make the Sahara desert into a delighting garden one night. It would be simply a wonderful thing to do; it could be done with no harmful side effects and so on. A brilliant accomplishment it would seem to be, and a mastermind evidence.
Long ago, nature teemed with life where a growing desert is now. How it might help bird-life when the Amazonas trees are chopped up.
Next, let the almighty helper allow a river to flow permanently upwards from the ocean around Madagascar, a river made to become freshwater at once the water leaves the ocean. Or let there be Moses-looking fountains of drinking-water from all mountains - hundreds and thousands all of a sudden. It may be no big deal for a Christian who is told he should command mountains to cast themselves into the sea. It's much similar. So what is the matter?
Turning all the deserts in the world could help many to survive - so they won't have to slave, starve, beg, steal and loot so much manjana ("tomorrow").
Christian missionaries know that in order to help well, they have to feed and educate the miserable ones - or else they may become offenders. To care for the body, mind and spirit may go well, whereas much braying up in the air, so to speak, may not help anyone. It looks more natural to build from bottom - helping materially first very often, next cultivate the mind broadly, and help the spirit side next - For if you are starved, you cannot learn. And if you cannot use the head, you cannot get instructed - so many things allow themselves to be built somewhat. But this is not the only approach - it is a much common one among Christian missionaries among pagans.
Is it wicked to ask an almighty friend of mankind to give a potent demonstration all at once? Let us also try to bear in mind there is a difference between minor miracles done by elves, brownies and pucks in folk belief, and real miracles on a big scale. To be mighty in some ways is not being almighty. Let us keep that point aligned so well that we never fall victims to master plotting in the dark, shall we?

There is a difference between saying one is almighty and really being it. There are also differences between a seeming miracle, minor miracle and a factual big one to look on or to.
We find masters speculate too much in coarse conceptual abilities among gullible North Americans.

Now helpers of mankind are politely invited to flood the Sahara desert with sweet water, and ensure steady supply of freshwater for at least ten centuries. How small a request for verification in this huge universe we are in -

Many great miracles never occur.

Adn there is something to reckon with: it is called exaggerated claims.

Good Things May Not Last Unless You Master How to Replenish Them

Two Great, Budding Projects: New Eden and New Atlantis

New Eden: The sands of Sahara.
New Atlantis: boulders of mountain parts thrown into the ocean off Portugal.
A few words to all who are found of fine landscaping and building projects, and to those who would like to work in deep secret to make the Sahara desert into an idyll again, and build the New Atlantis in the ocean by boulders and mountain parts that may be dispensable: Let the deeds and the process be very, very well documented: none would have read about miracles surrounding Jews on their way out of Egypt, unless they were recorded and thought to be reliable . . .
And some mountain plateaus might be far better places to live in if they were levelled some thousand metres. Many tell they can do it, or God can. And the mass of boulders might be used to build a New Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. How fit -
We will go into that. But first: If you want an idyl, conform to its conditions. When Adam did not drop Eve at once when she had destroyed the basic conditions of the idyl of the Garden, he got many later reasons to worry and drop dead. Copious reading may not be of much help after that.

When the Cat's Away, the Mouse May Play

Try and attain to warm, sound, and brilliant humour too.

Decent living is truly fit.

NOWADAYS the hairy apes generally suffer from lack of a good domain. It ties in with dwindling jungles and that sort of stuff. And the shrinking forests tie in with very mercantile interests. They shun little. Even holocaust-killings have occurred.
The other side of the story is that to bring down ruin on those who profit on top of the consumerist idiot race nowadays is not looked on as good per se (in itself). Yet it should find a firm place near the heart of the great men and woman to come, or else there is global disaster waiting. Is not that fair to say? So at the heart of the great man's purpose should be a firm no to consumer-idiot living so long as life lasts - maybe a little longer. Letters may be for that. We saw it in the case of St. Paul - letters lasted longer than his personal handiness in the clutch of Jesus, whose prisoner of the gospel he was.

Getting trapped in consumerist living is no good deal, ideally.

Confess and Be Hanged (British)

The freedom of prisoners - a mistake in the first place?

We often see a solid worrier often has a lot of other problems, and one of them can be helping a consumer friend that never feels he is in need of it. For such a reason the intimidated worrier could be worrying, in other words performing a sort of personal sacrifice that does not appear to be much fit. Emulating this behaviour and not social smartness, and is often sure to bring about a certain distance, even great solitude.
And still, many persons nowadays lose comrades and friends as a result of commercial business enveloping most of us - or consumerism, in a nutshell. To the degree it means giving up good friendships, it means missing highly important nuances in the long art of living. And there is reason to fear that, and that many consumerism-trapped persons may end up like idiots on a path that calls down destruction of self-sufficient dealings very often.
So a worrier may find himself having great problems without seeing them, and a warrior may never be reckoned with as his friend even though acting like one in the larger picture we are inside. And forgiving natures that are not backed up by such as university tokens, may get many other problems as well. These look like fun a little longer, perhaps.

Nuisance deals often reflect our inward problems.

Even Today Many Children Have a Bad Day

For a Fleeing Enemy One Should Construct a Bridge of Silver (Erasmus)

You should have enough control to keep sane honesty intact.

We should not talk down on clowns and the flower power movement. It's best to observe that the latter just did not last. A very delicate flower is seldom hardy enough when it comes to action, where action is called for. Many so-called hippies were brilliant men and women, and others may nearly develop neuroses from hearing about far less horny whereabouts nowadays -
Let us think that a Great Friend is someone who does what he can to help you, when needed or desired. The Hindu emissary Yogananda guaranteed that once he had given his friendship, he never took it back [cf. Say] He also asserted one should never be false to a friend, for that is one of the greatest sins before the divine tribunal, etc., etc. [cf. Ak; Say].
He also defined a Master as someone with stunning powers - and that his own master had control over all natural powers [Say].
In his autobiography that master of his assures that he had met someone that was much greater - Lahiri Mahasaya - and so on [cf. Pa].
Well, go ahead; ask them to make the great Sahara desert into a lovely garden overnight - with dams and nice floods - for God can do it, is a typical refrain where they talk God, talk big, talk down on the worth of the egohood of common people, and so on.
And then comes the desirable project New Atlantis in the middle of the ocean. Are Hindu gurus the only ones with said, enormous powers to build it - perhaps with stones from outer space, or some unpleasant peaks in Jotunheimen, the Andes area and in Tibet, as the case may be? Of course not! Any real follower of Jesus is said to have the power to cast mountains into the sea by simple command. It is in fact presented as one of the hallmarks of having the faith.

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." [Matthew 17:20]
I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done [Matthew 21:21; see also Mark 11:23]

There you have it in three different places. And note that you ARE allowed to put God's graces to the test.

Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I . . . pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. [Malachi 3:10]

You can start practicing and do even greater works than Jesus accomplished - plumb the significance of John 14:12 for it. Then, as you forge ahead to increase the very good conditions on planet Earth, take good notes of what happens, and don't kill anybody by rash eagerness as a boulder-commander or whatever. Even more important, perhaps, announce the findings. You are called to be honest, for truthfulness is a hallmark of being one of God's friends, as sure as any other token. And someone says that "honesty may save you". Let us hope that. It is a good help of integrity, at any rate.

Some say Hindu gurus may do it, the gospel says any genuine follower may do it. And still the Sahara desert is lying there, spreading, spreading year by year -

Refrain from Jesting About Old Imagined Things if You Can

To tackle bosses, hanker not for the religion they impose on others far and wide, or uphold.

Where people call Jesus good and mild, they appear to forget he came to bring something more edged that a broom on earth. Besides, one day he whipped persons who obeyed the Law that was handed over in the hands of priests. Now, where people call Jesus good, they seek to profit from regulated or stereotyped thinking. Very much done in the name of religion, serves bosses deep down. Let that be a hint.
Now, "Why do you call me good?" Jesus once asked. And truth is not bad - if others can tackle it. Much depends on that. Look to Jesus; others had him crucified.
Alarming numbers of troubles, violations, starvation, bad sanitation and lack of good clothing happen daily, and perhaps some look like novelties. Yet there is a fair chance that the best of men have observed very similar dynamics - have observed how things happen long before us. You may next conclude: "No matter how great these masters are called by proselytes and wild ones, the Sahara Desert is still sand." let us look into that a little, shall we?.
Very often we can derive key information or even better: key benefits from many singular, candid observations by the foremost men and women. Gautama Buddha saw much that is not out of place here today - that there is much suffering. We can add to it: "much unneeded suffering - and much suffering mars deep inside". This outlook ties in with understanding of the id (life zest) in mice and men, whose best plans often go awry.
We can look out for good and major observations, for they tie in with truth somehow, no matter how we love to define it. Look out for the finest among the often isolated key observations. It could make a difference. Even if we are not for many of the very old-fashioned, outmoded or perhaps deranged arguments that abound outside folklore, very good quotations, fine expert summaries and maxims that sum up rather important lessons, we slowly degenerate unless we heed the lessons of far-sighted men and women - maybe some of their cherished arguments or lines of reasoning too at times.

Observe the Sahara Desert is still sand. After that it could be fit to wonder why . . .

Success Is the Better Part of Valour

Independent thinkers often seem offensive to cowed persons.

Thus, major proverbs are still good reading for men who can think and consider odious things for themselves. They do not tempt a lot. They often allow for more "both-and" thinking too - the sort of thinking that came up in quantum physics in the 1930s, with John von Neumann.
Copious reading, on the other hand, may not be to much help in these waters, for very often sin is fun to look at, just as being mean to smaller ones too. And mere reading is seldom an antidote to that.
We could be prepared to demask hidden haughtiness inside much of what is called fun and much common entertainment nowadays. it is not only bread and circus entertainment that looks offensive to the heart. Observe well; think for yourself, and dare to come out of your cocoon, if you have one. To find yourself robbed of even that, means consumerism victim fairly often.
Man is supposed to be better than a donkey for others to ride on top of. Savoury living is to be fit for the common man, or else there are dangers in the future, as was the case with Atlantis a long time back, according to Plato in two of his dialogues. [LINK]

Is mere faith - as little deviant as possible - a way?

Literature
Ak: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: SRF, 1975.
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main ed.), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
Ha: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 12th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), 1981.
Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), 1971.
Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.

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