Urantia Book Society of Oklahoma

A secret force is at work trying to carry out a plan--a moral, spiritual plan to bring order out of the seeming chaos of creation."
  --Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)

P.1306 - §8  (118:10.19) The attainment of completed spiritual insight enables the ascending personality to detect harmony in what was theretofore chaos.


    Paramahansa Yogananda, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.
    Yogananda taught his students the need for direct experience of truth, as opposed to blind belief. He said that “The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.”
    Echoing traditional Hindu teachings, he taught that the entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation. He taught that mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
    He taught Kriya Yoga and other meditation practices to help people achieve that understanding, which he called Self-realization:
    Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the               kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omni-           presence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.