Fort Worth, Texas – December 1, 2007“Dwapara Yuga and Yogananda: blueprint for a New Age by Poor Richard” is a take on Franklin’s Almanac, offering not weather, household hints and amusements but teachings of simple living and high thinking from Yogananda, the author of the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi”. From 1920, the Indian Yogi spoke of a New Age of “Dwapara Yuga” unfolding, becoming the most popular speaker in America, with the ear of the President, the Governor of California, Burbank, Ford and Edison.
Yogananda answered the question of why civilization fell from the Romans to the Renaissance with the ancient idea of a natural, 24,000-year cycle of time called a Yuga. He explained that from 1600 to 1900 we transitioned to a New Age characterized by a breakdown of the idea of a material world and a growing consciousness of the underlying unity of peoples, energy and nature. Franklin, with his belief in “God as the infinite” and reincarnation, seized lightning from the sky and the scepter from the hand of tyrants, epitomizing the New Age.
Yogananda’s message of healthy diet, exercise and meditation was complimented by predictions that the future holds a coming together of the East and West, combining the spiritual qualities of India with the can-do competence of America, leading to a United States of the World – “Man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen. A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”
The author can be contacted via Dwaparayuga.com. “Dwapara Yuga and Yogananda: blueprint for a New Age by Poor Richard” can be purchased from the publishers, Lulu.com, and will shortly be available via Amazon.com and other booksellers.
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