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The Philosophical Foundations of the Religious Consciousness
by Swami Krishnananda


Publishers' Note

With great pleasure, we are publishing our new book 'The Development of Religious Consciousness'. The book presents a series of discourses that Worshipful Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj gave in the Ashram during Sadhana Week in 1989 on the evolution of religious consciousness in the human mind.

In this series, Sri Swamiji Maharaj takes the reader through the five stages of religious consciousness from its initial stage of concluding that the various phenomena in the world are caused by gods or deities in heaven, to seeing God as a Father in heaven transcending but controlling the world, then to bringing God closer in the form of a Divine Incarnation taking birth in the world, and finally merging with God in mystical experience. The last chapter provides arguments and proofs for the existence of God for those with a logical and philosophical attitude.

Worshipful Sri Swamiji Krishnanandaji Maharaj's illuminating and all-comprehensive approach to this important subject makes the book interesting and thought-provoking as well. The printed edition is titled "The Development of Religious Consciousness".

—THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY