Do Jesus Christ and his great commandments of love correspond with Eastern traditions? Of course they do. Read an excerpt from Paramahansa Yogananda’s commentary on the Bible.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

He said unto him, “What is written in the law? How readest thou?”

And he answering said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.”

And he said unto him, “Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live” (Luke 10:25–28).

Parallel passage from the Gospel of Mark:

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which is the first commandment of them all?”

And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O