The Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the Bible and the Bhagavad GitaThe Promise of Immortality is the most complete commentary available on the parallel passagesin the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita, Indias ancient scripture. This groundbreaking book illuminatesthe similarities between these two great scriptures in a way that vibrantly brings them tolife. The Promise of Immortality makes a convincing argument for the potential unity of allreligious belief. An unprecedented era of cooperation and harmony among the worlds differentreligions seems possible as Walters clarifies apparent differences in religious teachings to reveal atimeless, underlying truth. |
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Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Key to Manifested | 21 |
Lift up your eyes and look on the fields 357 395 | 36 |
What Is the Source of Life? | 39 |
Why Is the Light Incomprehensible | 45 |
The Incarnation | 53 |
Love your enemies 275 | 73 |
The Only BegottenWhy? | 78 |
Part IV | 247 |
The Way Beckons | 249 |
Suffer it to be so now 102 | 253 |
Works That Lead to Perfection | 263 |
That which lighteth every man 60 | 272 |
Be Ye Therefore Perfect | 275 |
Restlessness vs GodCenteredness | 289 |
The One Thing Needful | 305 |
the Key to Spiritual Development | 92 |
Divine Grace vs Divine Law | 107 |
Can God Be Known? | 132 |
How to Study the Scriptures | 147 |
Finding a True Teacher | 165 |
Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord 97 | 184 |
How to Relate to a Master | 186 |
Heaven Is Our Birthright | 196 |
Imperfection Is of the EgoPerfection Is of | 205 |
Part III | 215 |
Physician heal thyself | 226 |
Resurrection and the Meaning of Divine Tests | 231 |
The Inner Way of Pilgrimage | 323 |
The Inner Kingdom | 341 |
How Devotees Fall | 360 |
How Devotees Can Rise Again | 381 |
The Eternal Present | 392 |
The Redeeming Light | 404 |
About the Author | 416 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita |
| Author | J. Donald Walters |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Crystal Clarity Publishers, 2001 |
| ISBN | 1565891503, 9781565891500 |
| Length | 425 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism Religion / Spirituality |
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