Page "Second Coming" Paragraph 35

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

Turning directly to The Bible, Kriyananda argues for a more scripturally mature Christianity in which The Second Coming is treated not in terms of a profane materialism-one which favors a literal, physical and subsequently anti-spiritual resurrection-but rather unfolds in accordance with the more spiritual aspirations of The Book of Luke ; for " Neither shall they say, Lo here!

or, lo there!

for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

" ( Luke 17: 21 )