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Swami Yogananda’s famous “Autobiography of a Yogi” has passed its 60th year in print. Originally published in 1945 and then revised in 1951, the famous narrative of a guru’s life and times includes this great Indian teacher’s descriptions of his first trip to the U.S. in 1920, where he was embraced by affluent intellectuals curious…

YouTube.com isn’t the exclusive realm of wacky home videos made by suburban boys in their teens and early twenties. Here’s a vintage black-and-white film snippet of Swami Yogananda in which he lectures Westerners on how to go to sleep.

Heavenly Father, bless the nations of the earth, our own large family, that all may realize their eternal kinship as Thy children. Thou art our one spiritual Father, the Beloved of the Universe and the Beloved of our hearts. May the strong thoughts of love we broadcast today possess the brains of the dictators and…

This is fascinating. I’ve never read it before. In 1950, Martin Luther King took a course called “The Religious Development of Personality,” and wrote an autobiographical work about the various religious stages of his own early life. The professor marked it “Excellent.” Here’s an excerpt: “I had always been the questioning and precocious type. At…
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