Why God Permits Evil and How to Rise Above It

by Yogananda

Book Overview

In these pages Paramahansa Yogananda provides strength and solace for times of adversity by explaining the mysteries of God's lila, or divine drama. Readers will come to understand the reason for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876124619
• ISBN13: 9780876124611
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
• Length: 55 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A Beacon of Hope in the Dark

I learned much from this book. It explained how to rise above any suffering I have experienced, and brought me a lot of hope contrary to how I was raised. This is a wonderful book of the few I recommend that will speak to your soul and teach you how to overcome adversity. An excellent read and highly beneficial for all. Most Highly Recommended!

Divine Will and the Choice of Love Peace and Forgiveness

The deeply moving words of truth from Paramahansa Yogananda show us all how God endowed us with free will, so that we may come to learn, know, feel, practice, and act with love and peace. This little gem and treasure of a book is as great and as big as the cosmos with Divine truth, which will illuminate your mind, and speak to your soul. It teaches us to go within, and discover our own Divine God-Self within, where we CA N prevail in peace in our world, once we each choose to individually. It is then that the world will know peace collectively. HIGHLY Recommended to discover your own Divinity within. Deserves 10 Stars! Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of Know Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Wholeness, Radiance & Supreme Confidence and Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE

A very thought-provoking, uplifting viewpoint

How refreshing to hear a level-headed, non-dogmatic exposition on an eternally "hot" topic. This yogi makes a lot more sense to my heart than ninety-nine percent of the stuff I was brought up hearing.

Comfort for my heart and head

Compassion, loving the doer of evil, turning toward the light... It is wonderful that Yogananda shows how the tragedies of the world deserve our compassion - and also our dedication to renewing our own connection to the Light. He doesn't deny all the pain of living in a human, fallible world - but he offers a compassionate view of The Divine - and Its call to work our way out (and love our way out) of the pain of a material existence. The rational mind may balk when it sees no explanation for the suffering and evil that exists in The Creator's Universe. This little volume offers revolutionary insight - for more see Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi.Give Peace a chance. Give Love a chance. Find, in a genuine EXPERIENCE of God, the love that changes your whole world.

A master's words to comfort your heart and spur action...

Yogananda addresses the ultimate questions that torment the heart of all sensitive human beings. From his deep study of yoga principles and from years of meditation in samadhi, this revered 20th Century Indian saint provides answers that satisfy - because he is not just regurgitating scriptural dogma but mining the Truth that underlies ALL scriptures.In these three powerful expositions the yoga master comforts us with awareness of the Divine Assistance that is always available and simultaneously keeps us on track by reminding us of the Great Learning in which we each need to participate to co-create a more divinely loving environment for our brief stay in the earthly realm. As in all his writings, Yogananda impresses upon the reader the importance of both our inner and outer work as contributions to our own lives and the world as a whole. The overall effect of his teaching is to instill a positive vision of one's own place and work - a vision of grandeur and yet of humility - with an immediacy and clarity unparalleled by any other writer in the modern age.