The Eternal Way of Truth: A Four Part Survey by Yogeshwar Muni This slide show places before you the nature of God and how God's nature manifests as the world. In the process it reveals how yoga, the union of the individual with the Absolute, is attained. It was conceived by Yogeshwar Muni (Charles Berner) in 1978 and finished 1979 at his ashram Kayavarohana West, in St. Helena California. 28 years later, after 8 hours a day of meditation, on-going study, contemplation and development of the principles presented, Yogeshwar commented that he had encountered nothing in his subsequent experience or study that contradicted the information contained here. He said at the time, it was like he was on fire. Out of his own union with the the Absolute, the root of the world's religions and how he could share it with others became clear to him. It was then just a matter of assembling the illustrations and text. This was a big project in itself. He enlisted the help of Darshana, Narada (Jared Hess), Nishkala (Brock Palmer, photographer), Lakshmi (Nancy Nugent, artist) and Sundar, sound engineer.

(1) :24 Every aspect of life shows Divine Order. Here is a galaxy in the constellation Virgo showing the orderliness of billions of stars slowly rotating around its core. Why is the Universe orderly? Why isn't it completely chaotic? (2) The biological world is another stage of order. This flower has radial symmetry. What is the inner pattern that guides living things to manifest such order? (3) The growth spiral expands from a critical center at the top of the human head. Orderliness is the most obvious exposition of God's nature

1.What does beauty, order and duplication have to do with each other? 2. What is the relationship between the Vastu-Purusha-Mandala and the four ages of man? 3. How are maleness and femaleness created? 4. What is the basis of Universal order? 5. The dome of a temple represents what? 6. How many steps are there in the ladder of Yoga? 7. Is a yoga temple a meeting place for a group of worshipers? 8. Who is the equivalent of Noah in yogic scripture? 9. Tell the story of Shiva and the pillar of fire? 10. What is kundalini?

(1) The Buddhist wheel of dharma symbolizes the universal law. This key to liberation shows the dynamic balancing of the 3-fold spiral, positive, negative, and equilibrium. (2) This painting by Eiki Kano hangs in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. The human soul to the Japanese is three interlocking spirals. (3) A drawing of the same tripartite aspects of life uniting in an equilibrium in the centre. (4)1:09 Lama Govinda has summarized the 8-fold path to samadhi as being a balance of will, sensuality and wisdom, the 3 aspects of life.

1. Draw the anorexia cycle and its eight parts. 2. The monkey god, Hanuman, is the son of ___________________. 3. How does impurity affect the cycle of life? 4. What is the technique an artisan uses for personal growth? 5. Vishnu is the god of what part of the cycle of life? 6. Are the three white streaks on the forehead of a Shivite vertical or horizontal? 7. At what point of the cycle of life is the doorway to salvation? 8. Where is the kauli located in the temple? 9. What does a god or goddess standing on an animal symbolize? 10. Can one remain at the peak of achievement if it has been attained willfully?

Transformation for the European medieval alchemist consisted of releasing the uncommon gold, aurum non vulgi that was actually imminent in all things, by a psycho-metaphysical transmuting process. Within the vas hermetiacum, the retort hermetically sealed, processes were initiated that were intended only to accelerate and fulfill, not to oppose, the travail of nature, which was normally to render from the element of its soil a 'golden flowering` of the spirit. The vessel on the left shows the rain from a cloud being transformed by a winged monster through a hermaphroditic process. The result is poured onto the centre retort, a spiritual beginning of a virgin birth of a new man. The distillate from the transformed rain condenses in the heated vessel on the right, out of whose sulphur rises a living caduceus of the world axis, surrounded by copulating snakes.

1. The transformation channel is formed by what process? 2. What is the basic action that one needs to do in order 10 transform ones nature 2 3. Does who you basically are undergo transformation? 4. What is the connection between the philosopher’s stone and sacrament? 5. What is the Sanskrit word for enabling energy? 6. When shakti flows through the central channel, what is it called? 7. What opens the golden door to transformation? 8. In order to transform sexual energy into kundalini, what must one do? 9. Name the seven chakras in Sanskrit. 10. True or False 2 One is to kill pass ion and thereby achieve union with God

(1) The sacred symbol AUM is made up of four parts: a, u, au, and m. In the Sanskrit script, devanagri, the `a' is shaped like a ‘3’. If a curved line is added to the ‘3’ at the middle right ‘a’ becomes ‘u’. When a crescent shaped line is added above, the`u' becomes `au'. A dot completes the sound as `m m m'. (2) When one says AUM the four parts are gone through. If the head is taken as a microcosm for the entire body, the sound `AUM' follows through the four stages of the development of man. (3) This same pattern of evolution is reflected in the body as one's focus of interest goes from the legs to the abdomen to the chest and, finally, to the head.