Swami Rama

By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©1999
Swami Rama claims to provide knowledge of the highest of all ways for attaining spiritual reality.

Swami Rama

Info at a Glance

Name: The Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, Swami Rama.

Purpose: To help unify religions and provide the path to and knowledge of Supreme Reality (Brahman).

Founder: Swami Rama.

Source of authority: Swami Rama.

Revealed teachings: Yes.

Claim: To provide knowledge of the highest of all ways for attaining spiritual reality.

Examples of occult potential: Psychic development, spiritism.

Examples of key literature: Swami Rama, Lectures on Yoga and other volumes; Swami Ajaya (ed.), Living with the Himalayan Masters: Spiritual Experiences of Swami Rama.

Attitude toward Christianity: Rejecting.

Quote:

ā€œWe cannot reach the realm of Divinity in any other way except over the bridge of ego. Therefore he who wants to know God, should know himself.ā€ (Swami Rama, Life Here and Hereafter (1976), p. 86)

Doctrinal Summary

God: The impersonal Brahman (absolute being, consciousness, bliss).

Jesus: A master or prophet who attained Hindu God-realization.

The Christ: Cosmic (ā€œChristā€) consciousness.

Salvation: Enlightenment of one’s inner divine nature through yoga meditation.

Man: Inwardly divine.

Sin: Material attachment; ignorance, error; primarily imperfection in consciousness.

Satan: Spiritual ignorance.

The Bible: One of many scriptures properly interpreted in light of Hindu beliefs.

Death: An aspect of life.

Heaven and Hell: States of mind.

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