10/16/2022
THE ONE RELIGION OF GOD-REALIZATION; ALL MEN EQUALLY DEAR TO GOD ~ Yoganandaji
Truth is one… Divine incarnations do not come to bring a new or exclusive religion, but to restore the One Religion of God-realization. The great ones, like waves, all bathe in the same Eternal Sea. . .
Truth is no theory, no speculative system of philosophy, no intellectual insight. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. . . .
The wisdom garnered by India, the eldest brother among the nations, is a heritage of all mankind. Vedic truth, as all truth, belongs to the Lord and not to India. The rishis, whose minds were pure receptacles to receive the divine profundities of the Vedas, were members of the human race, born on this earth, rather than on some other, to serve humanity as a whole.
Distinctions by race or nation are meaningless in the realm of truth, where the only qualification is spiritual fitness to receive.
The rishis taught that each human being has been created by God as a soul that will uniquely manifest some special attribute of the Infinite before resuming its Absolute Identity. All men, endowed thus with a facet of Divine Individuality, are equally dear to God.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi “The Years 1940 – 1951″