Dwapara Yuga: E pur si muove!

Legend has it that the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei muttered this phrase - and yet it moves! - after being forced to recant in 1633, before the Inquisition, his belief that the Earth moves around the Sun

As recently as 2000, access to Yogananda's 32 years of US writing and speaking was filtered through a handful of lessons, books and CDs, unless one had access to original materials via monastics, ex monastics, grandparents, or groups willing to share freely.

One of the extraordinary things about Yogananda is that we have transcripts and writings in English and not simply accounts from disciples decades after the fact, which is our lot with many prophets, a circumstance leading to centuries of debate as to what was or was not included and/or edited, most famously with the Bible - a collection of only certain works in specific, edited forms and with questionable translations, despite the assertion to the contrary in Revelations.

The works of disciples are, of course, themselves valuable since they provide specific lines of interpretation, much as Paul's views on Christ, that constitute much of the New Testament - some Theologians go so far as to call modern Christianity Paulinism. This site has long called for SRF's archives to be opened to the public much as Presidential Libraries fully illuminate our Presidents, as big business, the Vatican and LDS Church have already done, to quiet debate over disputed texts and complete histories (warts and all).

With the Internet, online archives and Amazon publications, any motivated person can rapidly access a great deal of material, lawsuits, charity status and compare current and original versions to make their own determinations of what is true and false.

From it's inception, this site has endeavored to provide links to many groups and sources of information, especially the search features on the left hand side.

Apple's iPhone is one of the most successful computer launches in the last 20 years, with over one billion applications downloaded to-date (the author is unaffiliated with Apple). Some of these, such as Olive Tree's Bible software, are just straight copies of what has been available on the PC for decades -- the ability to keywords search and analyze many different versions of the Bible - a very Dwapara idea.

A new, free one is the text of the Autobiography of a Yogi, to peruse from the phone.

Sri Yukteswar and Yogananda were great advocates of scientific thinking and testing the proof of any conjecture, simplicity itself where the item in question is a text!