Swami Kriyananda 
The Road Ahead [EPUB ebook] 
Based on World Prophecies of the Famed Indian Mystic Paramhansa Yogananda

Contents for The Road Ahead

Foreword v

1. The Need to Prepare3

2. Paramhansa Yogananda7

3. Depression11

4. Natural Cataclysms25

5. Communism27

6. World Wars and the Fate of Nations38

7. Planetary Evolution44

8. Can Sufferings Be Avoided?48

9. The Religion of the Future50

10. The Social Pattern of the Future52

11. Cooperative Communities55

12. When Will Trials Come?59

13. How to Prepare72

Appendix: Questions and Answers 91

Pub
lishers’ Appendix: On the Difficulty
of Timing in Prophecy 101

About the Author 109

Swami Kriyananda“Swami Kriyananda is a man of wisdom and compassion in action, truly one of the leading lights in the spiritual world today.” —Lama Surya Das, Dzogchen Center, author of Awakening the Buddha Within A prolific author, accomplished composer, playwright, and artist, and a world-renowned spiritual teacher, Swami Kriyananda (1926–2013) referred to himself simply as close disciple of the great God-realized master, Paramhansa Yogananda. He met his guru at the age of twenty-two, and served him during the last four years of the Master’s life. He dedicated the rest of his life to sharing Yogananda’s teachings throughout the world.Kriyananda was born in Romania of American parents, and educated in Europe, England, and the United States. Philosophically and artistically inclined from youth, he soon came to question life’s meaning and society’s values. During a period of intense inward reflection, he discovered Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, and immediately traveled three thousand miles from New York to California to meet the Master, who accepted him as a monastic disciple. Yogananda appointed him as the head of the monastery, authorized him to teach and give Kriya Initiation in his name, and entrusted him with the missions of writing, teaching, and creating what he called “world brotherhood colonies.”Kriyananda founded the first such community, Ananda Village, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in 1968. Ananda is recognized as one of the most successful intentional communities in the world today. It has served as a model for other such communities that he founded subsequently in the United States, Europe, and India.