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The Science of Religion
A short treatise arguing that the universal aim of all religions is to avoid pain and attain bliss, understood as God, and that there are practical methods—devotional, intellectual, meditative and the scientific method of yoga—for reaching it. It is the programmatic statement with which he introduced himself in the United States.
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Authorship note
An expansion of the address he gave at the Boston Congress of Religious Liberals (October 1920). The 1925 Los Angeles printing states a 1924 copyright and an earlier first edition in India.
Editions and translations
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English
The Science of Religion
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1982
ISBN 0876120044
Paramahansa Yogananda
The Science of Religion
The Conscious LibraryThe Science of Religion
Yogoda and Sat-Sanga Headquarters, Los Ángeles, 1925
4.ª edición; ejemplar digitalizado en Internet Archive.
Español
Paramahansa Yogananda
La ciencia de la religión
The Conscious LibraryLa ciencia de la religión
Editorial Kier, Buenos Aires, 1994
ISBN 9789501716078
La ciencia de la religión
Self-Realization Fellowship, 2004
ISBN 9780876120071
Deutsch
Paramahansa Yogananda
Religion als Wissenschaft
The Conscious LibraryReligion als Wissenschaft
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9783502626664
Italiano
La scienza della religione
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9788834010792
Other works by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Autobiography of a Yogi · 1946
- Songs of the Soul · 1923
- Scientific Healing Affirmations · 1924
- Psychological Chart and the Yogoda booklets · 1925
- Whispers from Eternity · 1929
- Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons · 1934
- Metaphysical Meditations · 1932
- Cosmic Chants · 1938
- The Law of Success · 1944
- Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda · 1952
- How You Can Talk with God · 1957
- Prayers of a Master for His Disciples · 1965
- Spiritual Diary · 1968
- Man's Eternal Quest · 1975
- The Divine Romance · 1986
- Where There Is Light · 1988
- God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita · 1995
- Wine of the Mystic · 1994
- Journey to Self-Realization · 1997
- In the Sanctuary of the Soul · 1998
- Inner Peace · 1999
- To Be Victorious in Life · 2002
- Why God Permits Evil and How to Rise Above It · 2002
- Living Fearlessly · 2003
- The Second Coming of Christ · 2004
- The Yoga of Jesus · 2007
- The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita · 2007
- Two Frogs in Trouble · 1997
- How-to-Live Series · 2009
- Solving the Mystery of Life · 2025
- Beholding the One in All · 1990
- The Essence of Self-Realization · 1990
- Wisdom of Yogananda series · 2005
- Yogoda Satsanga Society booklets · 2007
- Awake in the Cosmic Dream · 1952
- The Great Light of God · 1951
- Self-Realization: The Inner and the Outer Path · 1950
Sources
- Yogananda, Swami. The Science of Religion. Los Ángeles: Yogoda and Sat-Sanga Headquarters, 4.ª ed., septiembre de 1925 (copyright 1924; 1.ª ed. en la India). Ejemplar digitalizado en Internet Archive.
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