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Never before has J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) written so personal a story. The subject: his separation from Self-Realization Fellowship as the first step toward the founding of Ananda. In this particular re-telling, the storyplot goes from the philosophical and the spiritual into a profoundly human being dimension.
With charity, but with unflinching candor, and more detail than he has ever shared with anyone, Kriyananda describes himself and the ones involved in incidents critical to the continuing future of Paramhansa Yogananda's mission.
You'll meet a Kriyananda you've never attained before: the earnest young monk, susceptible, plagued by self-doubt, yet established to check out his guru's direction.
The story is informed with engaging immediacy. Yet Kriyananda, in his masterly way, also conveys how time and spiritual maturity have helped bring him not only detachment, but deep gratitude for many that happened, unpleasant though it was at the time. He makes of the very personal story a universal teaching.
For it is clear-- in retrospect-- that Paramhansa Yogananda understood Kriyananda's future, and carefully well prepared him for his ultimate destiny: dramatic separation from SRF and, after that, the great work that Yogananda possessed commissioned him to handle.
