What is he talking about? The final marble statue which is of Jesus arrived from our marble sculptor in India. Jesus holds pole position in our line of Masters or Gurus. He is viewed both in India and at Ananda as a Great Master of Yoga.
“I wasn’t sent to the West,” Yogananda often told his audiences, “by Christ and the great masters of India to dogmatize you with a new theology. Jesus himself asked Babaji to send someone here to teach you the science of Kriya Yoga, that people might learn how to commune with God directly. I want to help you to attain actual experience of Him, through your daily practice of Kriya Yoga.” – Paramhansa Yogananda
Our line of gurus is 5 deep which is the reason we returned to India to commission the same artist in Jaipur, India to hand carve this statue of Jesus sitting in meditation. He is sitting in lotus posture with hands upturned. The facial features were drawn from a photograph of the Hoffman painting similar to the one which many of our meditation altars. The funds were donated to Ananda Village as our annual community Christmas gift by its members and it just arrived last week
