Message #37910

[Jitendra Hydonus]

It’s easier to take point by point mccoy. First you made this point;

“Steve, I did not say exactly that. My answer in relation to Kriya Yoga is that the model expounded by Yogananda explains more logically than other models many deep metaphysical truths. Then, by virtue of such logical coherence, I also trust Yogananda that Kryia burns karma. It's just an issue of credibility earned (by Yogananda).” ~mccoy

Above you have stated that you “trust Yogananda that Kriya burns karma.” So why is it you do not trust Yogananda when he stated this in the Autbiography of a Yogi (chapter 16 - Outwitting the Stars). And if you do trust him, wouldn’t you also accept the statements he made below about the Yugas and Sri Yukteswar’s ability to “ separate errors and interpolations of scholars from the truths as originally expressed by the prophets.”?

Sri Yukteswar discovered the mathematical application of a 24,000-year equinoctial cycle to our present age.4 The cycle is divided into an Ascending Arc and a Descending Arc, each of 12,000 years. Within each Arc fall four Yugas or Ages, called Kali, Dwapara, Treta, and Satya, corresponding to the Greek ideas of Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Golden Ages.

My guru determined by various calculations that the last Kali Yuga or Iron Age, of the Ascending Arc, started about A.D. 500. The Iron Age, 1200 years in duration, is a span of materialism; it ended about A.D. 1700. That year ushered in Dwapara Yuga, a 2400-year period of electrical and atomic-energy developments, the age of telegraph, radio, airplanes, and other space-annihilators.

The 3600-year period of Treta Yuga will start in A.D. 4100; its age will be marked by common knowledge of telepathic communications and other time-annihilators. During the 4800 years of Satya Yuga, final age in an ascending arc, the intelligence of a man will be completely developed; he will work in harmony with the divine plan.

A descending arc of 12,000 years, starting with a descending Golden Age of 4800 years, then begins5 for the world; man gradually sinks into ignorance. These cycles are the eternal rounds of maya, the contrasts and relativities of the phenomenal universe.6 Man, one by one, escapes from creation's prison of duality as he awakens to consciousness of his inseverable divine unity with the Creator.

Master enlarged my understanding not only of astrology but of the world's scriptures. Placing the holy texts on the spotless table of his mind, he was able to dissect them with the scalpel of intuitive reasoning, and to separate errors and interpolations of scholars from the truths as originally expressed by the prophets.