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              “Your religion is not the thoughts and beliefs in which you enclose yourself,
                           but the garment of light you weave around your heart.
            Discover who you are, behind those outer trappings, and you will discover who
                                       Jesus was, and Buddha, and Krishna.
            For the masters come to earth for the purpose of holding up to every man a
                                    reflection of his deeper, eternal Self.”
                                                                                          —Paramhansa Yogananda

             “In the divine plan, Jesus Christ was responsible for the evolution of the West, and
               Kishna (later, Babaji), for that of the East. It was intended that the West specialize
               in developing objectively, through logic and reason, and that the East specialize in inner,
               intuitive development. But in the cosmic plan the time has come to combine these two
               lines into one. East and West must unite.”
                                                                     —Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

    In 1920, Yogananda came to America, not to “dogmatize you with a new theology,” as he
    later told his students, but “to teach you how to commune with God directly.”
    He lectured to hundreds of thousands across the country. His Autobiography of a Yogi,
    first published in 1946, has become one of the most well-loved spiritual books of the last
    century, and a classic of religious literature. He was devoted to helping unite East and West
    by bringing the original teachings of yoga to the West, and showing their underlying unity
    with the original teachings of Christ.
    He advocated the founding of what he called “world-brotherhood colonies” where people
    could live together in spiritually supportive communities.

    Yogananda means “Divine Bliss through Yoga” (union with God).
    Paramhansa, a title given to him by his guru, Sri Yukteswar, means “highest swan.”
    In Indian philosophy, the the white swan, or hansa, is said to have the power of extracting
    only milk (wisdom, enlightenment) from a mixture of milk and water (the mundane world),
    and is a symbol of spiritual discrimination.

         Sri Yukteswar (1855-1935)
    “He fitted the Vedic definition of a man of God. ‘Softer than the flower where kindness is
     concerned’ stronger than thunder, where principles are at stake.’ He taught by sublimity
     of example alone the true measure of a man.”
                                                              —Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

                         " Love is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families and nations."