On This Day in the Life of Paramhansa Yogananda…

February 23

1923

Yogananda addressed the Harvard Liberal Club luncheon at Harvard University on “India and Internationalism.”

1929

Yogananda attended an evening of religious music at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Sieber with 100 Philadelphia students.

1939

Yogananda gave a talk at Mt. Washington that was later included in the book The Divine Romance as “With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding.”


Yogananda's Speech Reported in Harvard Newspaper

GANDHI HELD AS SECOND CHRIST BY ALL INDIA, SAYS SWAMI YOGANANDA
People in India Truly Happy Because Truly Spiritual

“Gandhi is held as the second Christ by all India; he has broken all caste systems where centuries of oppression and gunpowder have failed, and has united India with one common aim,” said Swami Yogananda, representative of the Maharaja of Kasimbazar in America, and recent delegate to the International Congress of Religions, speaking yesterday before the Liberal Club. “A bloodless revolution is his idea, an India conquering through ideals, his aim.”

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