Paramhansa Yogananda's speeches published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Circa 1926

Swami Yogananda in the Cincinnati Enquirer. “In October, (1926) the people of Cincinnati gathered in larger numbers than have ever been known in the history of lectures at the Music Hall, which seats over 3600 people. The editors of the nationally-known newspaper, the ‘Cincinnati Enquirer’ extended their cordial support to the Yogoda message and published the lectures of the Swami in full each day in their columns, thereby reaching hundreds of thousands of Ohio people who could not come personally to the lectures.” 1

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CONTENTS: LECTURER Is To Arrive Today.

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HINDU TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

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NERVOUSNESS Is Undermining Health

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SCRAP MACHINE GUNS

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WILL NEGLECTED By American People,

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DIVORCE COURT May be Avoided Easily

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CURE ILLS BY CHANTING

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FEAR AND WORRY Are Mental Bacteria,

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HEALTH SEEKING Is Commended as Ideal

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ILLNESS CURED By Tonal Vibrations,

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CONCENTRATION Essential To Success,

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ASSORTED COMMENTS

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ENDNOTES

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LECTURER ________ Is To Arrive Today. _________ Swami Yogananda, East Indian Educator, To Give Series of Addresses on Philosophical Topics. ________ Swami Yogananda, a celebrated East Indian educator, poet-philosopher and metaphysician, who has spoken before numerous universities in this country and comes armed with a formidable list of national sponsors, including the Late Luther Burbank, “plant wizard”; Galli Curci, the songbird; Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of Mark Twain, and others, will pay his first visit to Cincinnati today. He is to arrive from New York City at 10:30 this morning and will be met by a local committee and escorted to his suite at the Hotel Gibson. Swami, who is the official representative of the Maharajah of Kasimbazar Bengal, reigning prince of India, is to give a series of free lectures at Music Hall, October 3 to 17. The first will be Sunday night. His subject will be Everlasting Youth. Yogananda is vice president of Sadhu Sabha, or Council of Savants, founder of two residential schools in India, the Mt. Washington Educational Center, Los Angeles, and other educational centers in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Waltham and Chicago. He is the originator of Yogoda, a new science which he will teach while here. This is said to be a modernization of the best teachings of the ancient Indian Yogis, which Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science drew from, and generously acknowledged. Through Yogoda, Swami claims his students may summon their superconscious powers to bring about physical and spiritual betterment. He is declared to have effected seemingly miraculous cures through Yogoda. The distinguished visitor will talk to radio listeners from Station WLW at 7:30 Saturday evening. He is to address the forum of the Chamber of Commerce and the American Business Club at noon Tuesday. 2

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HINDU TO SPEAK TONIGHT. ____________ Swami Yogananda to Give Second Lecture at Music Hall. ____________ Swami Yogananda, Hindu educator and metaphysician, who gave his first Cincinnati lecture at Music Hall Sunday night, will speak again tonight at Music Hall at 8 o’clock. His subject will be “The Art of Overcoming Nervousness---How To Attain Poise.” He will tell Cincinnatians how Yogoda, the science of meditation and concentration, which he claims to have perfected, can banish what popularly is known as “nerves, America’s great national ailment.” All seats will be free. At noon today, Swami has two engagements. At the first fall meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Forum he will talk on “Recharging Your Business Battery Out of the Cosmos.” Before the American Business Club at the Hotel Sinton, his subject will be “How Oriental Methods Can Help Occidental Business.” Tomorrow noon he is to address the Advertisers’ Club at the Cincinnati Club on “Superconscious Advertising.” The “superconsciouness,” according to Swami, differs materially from what is known as the “subconsciousness,” which, he declares, relates to the lower stratum of one’s inner life and may provoke base motives, whereas acts proceeding from the superconsciousness source are uplifting and improve the spiritual nature of man. Swami will speak at Music Hall tomorrow night on “How To Get What You Want. ‘Law of Success.” 3

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NERVOUSNESS ______ Is Undermining Health ________ Of Americans, Hindu Speaker Tells Audience. _________ Practice of Calmness and Poise is Urged By Noted Teacher in Music Hall Talk. _____ “The national health of America is menaced by nervousness. This can be overcome by beginning early to bring up the nerves properly, like little children in a boarding school, by a frugal diet and the cultivation of poise.” Said Swami Yogananda, Hindu lecturer, at Music Hall last night, on the subject of “The art of Overcoming Nervousness.” Among other things the Swami said: “It is said that he is your best friend who tells you not only about the qualities you have, but the disqualifications which you can avoid. “My loving suggestion to the American people is this---that as their national progress is specially marked by their unequaled use of machinery, so their national health is menaced by the not too dangerous, yet very uncomfortable, disease called nervousness. So a little discussion about the human nervous system, its functions and its right use would be of great advantage. “The nerves consist of highly specialized nerve cells and a number of processes. The complete unit is called a neuron. The functional unit consists of a pair of such neurons. “(a) One is destined for the reception of impulses from a sensory surface ---‘the sensory neuron.’ “(b) The other discharges impulses to some motor mechanism and is known as ‘motor neuron.’ “Nervousness might be organic or functional or both, but mostly the functional is mistaken for the organic. “If nervousness is due to organic causes, it should be treated physically whereas, if it is mental or functional, then the cure should be sought in psychotherapy, according to medical science. “The nerve fibers can be excited along any part of their course. Chemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical stimuli are capable of starting an impulse in the nerve fiber, and this impulse is conducted along the fiber, producing effects very similar to those of normal impulses. “Hence the nerves are sensitive, conscious and responsive, consisting of innumerable feeling cells, and they serve as channels (two-fold paths) or carriers of motor and sensory impulses. Each sensation passing through the nerves affects specifically the sensory Richmond 10.16. 13

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nerves. Similarly the motor thoughts passing through the motor nerves into the muscles affects them. “Affect Motor Nerves.” “Excitable thoughts affect the mortal nerves and the motor centers of speech, producing twitching of lips, fingers and throbbing of nerves. If a high voltage of current is made to pass through a bulb of 50-candle power, the wires will burn or be affected. “Similarly, superfluous mental excitement or energy and sensations passing through the nerves constantly and ceaselessly hurt and ultimately ruin them. “The American people keep the nerve wires of their bodily telephone charged all the time with superfluous impulses or currents. Too much heat of excitement and business over stimulates the delicate nerve tissues. Leading to the danger of being burnt up or fused. Besides, overeating as many Americans do, affects the health of the nerve wires. Overnutrition or want of proper nutrition or lack of proper nutrition are all bad for the health of the nerves. Hence right dieting of the living nerve cells is just as necessary as the way you treat them with your mental vibrations. “When a telephone wire is burned up it is replaced by another, but in case of the deterioration of a human nerve the cure must come from within. “Effect Is Cited.” “The nerve cells are just like little dwarfish human beings who carry the sensory messages to the brain and the motor messages away from the brain by word of mouth. Just as hungry, diseased or untrained men may distort the carrying of a message through their weakness or bad training, so the nerves suffering from malnutrition and excited by wrong thoughts always distort the experiences of human life. “The nerve cells ought to be brought up properly like little children in a boarding school. “Second they ought to be taught poise. In other words, no excitement should pass through the nerves. Wrong diet, night wakings, too much jazzing, overdoing in entertaining at the cost of the entertained, constant business worry, lead first to mental nervousness, then physical or organic nervousness in which the tissues of the nerves are affected. “American people have mostly mental nervousness. All they have to learn is the art and actual practice of poise in the early morning and evening before they go to their daily business or to their evening engagements. Ten to twenty minutes of practicing calmness according to the right way, or even blank silence will help them. The nerves behave exactly as they are taught to behave. Ninety-nine percent of the American people suffer from mental nervousness, and that can be cured by analysis and help from a mental analyst. “A man who went to different medical authorities and got himself examined and was declared to have occasional outbursts of heart disease once came to me. On examination I found out the cause of his disease was mental, induced by nervousness. So I commanded him to bring a pair of scissors. The scissors were brought, and with them I cut off his vest button and told him never to put his hand over the place on the chest. Richmond 10.16. 13

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“When I cut off the button he grumbled, ‘Ah, ah, why did you cut off my button?’ I said, ‘I will explain to you later on. But do now just as I tell you to do. Come to me after a fortnight and report to me about your condition.’ He came and said, I got myself examined by doctors and they say I am, and I feel I am perfectly cured. “Then I explained to him that he had a habit of pressing and rubbing his vest button constantly in the act of mental nervousness. That produced the sensation of a pressure on the heart, causing him to imagine he had heart disease. And he imagined it so strongly and excited the nerves connecting the heart, causing nervousness. With the vest button cut off, the imaginary cause of disease disappeared. “The mind is superior to the body. And all the body cells and nerves are living and intelligent. That’s why I know that the greatest and surest art of curing nervousness, both organic and mental, can be effected by learning the art of poise as taught by the great master-minds of India.” The Swami will lecture each night in Music Hall this week. His subject for this evening will be, “How to Get What You Want. Law of Success.” 4

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And Concentrate on Peace, Hindu Teacher Advises at Meeting. ____________ Utilizing the cosmic consciousness and concentration as a means of educating humanity to a realization of international peace was suggested yesterday by Swami Yogananda in an address to more than 300 businessmen and women at the Chamber of Commerce Forum. “Scrap your machine guns, your battleships and your armament.” Said the teacher. “Concentrate the thoughts of the nations on peace and against war. I want my fellow beings to co-operate with me in my effort to establish international schools for all-round education of all in every large city in the world. One hundred percent right education can solve all life’s complex problems and give peace and contentment to the fifteen hundred million members of the human family.” The Swami said that India would profit by having business missionaries from America to instruct the people in the efficiency of production and business methods of the United States, but he said the technique of concentration had been practiced among the Hindus for generations. 5

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WILL NEGLECTED ________ By American People, __________ Who Are Wonderful Factory Builders, Teacher Says. _________________

“Americans are wonderful builders and organizers of iron factories, but they have not yet undertaken to build and organize their mental factories. American schools, colleges and universities have not taught the adults and children the dynamo power of the human will.” Said Swami Yogananda, Hindu philosopher, in his lecture at Music Hall last night on the subject, “The Dynamic Power of Will.” He said in part: “The function of a dynamo is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. Similarly the incoherent mechanical power of will can be converted into steadily flowing dynamic power of will. “As the western mind emphasizes the making of machinery calculated to bring it material comfort, so also the Hindu savant’s mind is concentrated on the development and building of mental machineries which will bring him not only power over matter but over inner forces. “The Hindu savant gently asks his American brother as to why he is not as eager and scientifically methodical in the creation and development of his mental mechanism as he is about material mechanisms. “The iron machineries produce the commodities that secure human comfort. But few realize that without the help of the mental machinery, the mechanisms of human material can not be produced. Value of Mind Emphasized. “If Americans are such wonderful builders and organizers of iron factories, why don’t they get busy and properly build and systematize their mental factories. Out of the factory of the human mind the skyscrapers, the long bridges, the radio, colossal business organizations, artistic, literary, scientific engineering achievements and everything spring. “It is strange how the West has neglected studying the mechanism of the mental factory, and how the East has neglected building big iron factories. The time has come for the East and West to exchange engineers. “A little discussion of the evolution of the power of will from childhood to advanced age will show how this faculty, this mental force, is requires in the making of all life’s successes---spiritual or material. Yet, how strange it is that the American homes, schools, colleges, psychological institutions, do not teach adults and their children to develop the

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power of will. ‘Every human faculty does not grow without a definite exercise or some kind of use direct or indirect. “So the will needs exercise. This is the faculty of all faculties. Without will no movement, study, sleep, concentration, imagination, creative business, inventions--nothing is possible. “In childhood the will is physiological, and the child expresses it through certain cries for food and for removal of discomfort. The baby’s cries represent its will identified with its physiological functions. “Then the baby grows and walks and is directed by its mother’s will. It has unthinking will. Its physical will changes into thinking will---will which is expressed only in connection with the mother’s will. That’s why it is termed the unthinking will--the will which cannot direct itself independently, but is dependent on some one else’s will. Then when the child begins to be stubborn and the mother thinks her child is getting haughty, that’s when the child’s independent will is born through indulgence or practices in obstinacy. I remember the first night of the birth of my own will, when I managed to secure some orange-colored candies after raising a cry from 7 p.m. to 12 p.m. When I first asked for the candies from my mother, she not suspecting the birth of my will, softly commanded, ‘Never mind. Go to bed,’ she thought I would obey her, as I was oft used to doing. But when I cried again demandingly, ‘Mother, I want the candies,’ she sternly replied, ‘My boy, you are getting naughty. You are disobeying me. You shall not have the candies.’ “My mother did not realize that that was one of my happiest nights. I wasn’t getting naughty; but I was drinking the newborn wine of my own first will. “American Mothers Beware.” “So American mothers, beware. Be careful not to call your children naughty when they show through waywardness the birth of their own will. Just reason with your children when they are wayward and by love try to guide their waywardness into right channels. “After the first victory of my will. I began to exercise it right and left in my home to gain the football, bicycle and many other playthings which I was denied before. I was given up for being very obstinate and naughty. I found it is that tenacity of will in my early life, which has helped me to establish big institutions in the world in the face of great difficulties. Now imagine how much a child can accomplish in later life if only he is consciously, instead of through his obstinacy, able to develop his own will. “For three years in Boston I had only 200 followers and two or three thousand people listened to my lectures. Then somebody said, ‘Hey your Hindu stuff won’t go in America,’ to which I replied, ‘The technique of recharging the body battery and of concentration may have been discovered by the Hindus, but it is not their property, even as electricity, though discovered by Americans, does not belong to them. Truth is one. It isn’t something belonging to the Hindus or the Americans. True ideas belong to everybody.’ And then this sarcasm did me good, for I mustered up my trained will and I said, ‘I will make this go, for I want to give my American brothers and sisters a strong will. I want to do it because, influencing as they do the international minds, I want them to show stronger will for lasting spiritual success.’ And in the past two years I have Richmond 10.16. 13

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established a large educational center in one of the finest places in Los Angeles on Mount Washington. “The Hindu savants further say that the unthinking will develops into the ‘blind explosive will’ of the youth. The youth should be taught not to waste the dynamo of his will power in wrong living and wasteful habits. “The Hindu savants go deeper and train their students to bridge the gulf existing between human will, and divine will. Will is the director of energy in the body, which in turn sets in, motion certain world activities. The greater the will power the stronger, will be the power of energetic efforts in life. But the human dynamic will is just like a small motor performing or producing small activities---small production, either material or mental. “The dynamic will generates cosmic energy, which is the creator of planets, stars, the powers of attraction and repulsion and all nature, forces---flowers, food, gold, electrons, minds, everything. Hence, the little human dynamo is a miniature of the big cosmic dynamo of divine will. By learning the art of reversing the mental current of concentration inward one can connect the little human dynamo of human will with the dynamo of divine will and achieve miraculous success. As Jesus said, ‘Say unto this mountain, be thou removed into the depth of the sea, and it shall be removed hence, i.e. will it with divine will and ye shall have unlimited cosmic energy at your command, which can solve all your difficulties and accomplish everything. Radio---talking at a distance without wires--- was a miracle 50 years ago. It is commonplace now. So miracles of will which ‘Jesus performed in connection with human life will be commonplace accomplishments in the future; and the dead will rise and destiny shall be controlled by our will. Hindu savants have demonstrated that in life and can teach that to their American brothers and sisters.” 6

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DIVORCE COURT ________ May be Avoided Easily _________ By Development of Personal Magnetism, Swami Says. __________ Hindu Educator Gives Pointers on Likes and Dislikes and reasons Therefor. _______ “Learn personal magnetism and avoid the Divorce Courts.” Advised Swami Yogananda, Hindu educator, at Music Hall last night. “Each person can magnetize himself “by effort of will and by constant application of the will,” said Swami, in his lecture on “How To Develop Personal Magnetism. Attracting Objects of Heart’s Craving.” He said: “A horseshoe magnet has two poles ---positive and negative. The magnetic force acts within a certain range. Within a certain distance a magnet can draw a piece of iron bar or needle. If the two ends of the bars of a magnet are united, the magnetic force is lost through neutralization. “Electricity passing through a wire magnetizes it. If this magnetized wire is passed through cardboard and, certain metallic filings are placed on the cardboard within the range of the magnetic wires, then the magnetic wire gathers the metallic filings around it. If the electric current is withdrawn, the metallic filings fall apart again. “Likewise, each one of you is a magnet---only you don’t know it. Mental energy, youthfulness of mind, the life current in the body battery, all passing through the cerebrospinal axis or the spinal cord and nervous system, convert the body of man into the two kinds of magnets mentioned above. “We hear people say, ‘That young man is very magnetic, a live wire, & etc.’ By effort of will and constant application of will each man can magnetize himself as a wire is magnetized by electricity. Hence the range of the magnetism of each individual differs in proportion to the energy which he charges himself with. “Excited or overenthused persons just let out fitful currents of magnetism, causing more shock to their friends than attraction. The calm individual bubbling over with energy lets himself be steadily charged with his steady will power and thus exudes a silent power of magnetism around him. Richmond 10.16. 13

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“During hand-shaking two people convert themselves into a horseshoe magnet, the positive person becomes the positive pole and the negative person forms the negative pole of this human magnet. Two persons exactly positive in the same degree, or two negative persons of the same degree shaking hands, do not form any magnets. They generally stay away from one another. That’s why a man cannot live with a mannish woman. Neither can a feminine man live with a feminine woman. We do not realize that during hand shaking we expose ourselves to unwholesome or good magnetism entering into our bodies, according to the nature of the persons with whom we shake hands. Hindus Train Selves. “In India, the Hindu savants knowing the scientific law of personal magnetism, train their people not to take the risks involved in shaking hands with the wrong persons, but teach them a wonderful form of salutation in which no shaking of hands is involved. Kissing is not common in India for this very reason. A girl with higher spiritual magnetism, kissing a man living on a lower plane, is imposed upon wrongly. “We must always remember personal magnetism is exchanged between persons through conversation, hearing lectures, letters, sight, touch, smell, eating from the same plate, shaking hands, and, above all, through friendship and love. “Persons who tune their lives to personalities like Jesus Christ, or the Hindu Prophet Krishna, or any living saint, become influenced by their wholesome magnetism and lose their own weak or evil magnetism. “Only when a spiritual man is sure of the steadiness of his own personal magnetism can he afford to shake hands or associate with persons imbued with wrong undesirable magnetism. Young moral novices who start to reform wicked people without developing their own personal magnetism strongly are exposed to the danger of losing themselves. It is only Christ-like persons and persons with strong magnetism who can associate with and be fruitful friends to publicans and sinners. “That’s why the American ought to know the secret law which governs human magnets. This knowledge of the law as to how personal magnetism is created is vital to the material, social and spiritual success of an individual. A dishonest partner in the life of a businessman or a seeming friend with a wrong magnetism may ruin all life’s prosperity. That’s why unlike India, divorces are so appallingly great in America, due to ignorance of the law of magnetism. “America is full of people highly developed in business magnetism, and generally they find their coworkers. Two bosses equally positive cannot stay together in a business--one has to be at least a little negative for the harmony and success of their mutual business. “Both Kemal Pasha and his former wife are individuals with very strong positive magnetism. That’s why they cannot stay together. It is strange also that the most intelligent husbands and their talented wives cannot stay together for the same reason. The talented husband prefers a meek wife who is a little negative and doesn’t oppose him so much.

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Law Given for Happiness. “So by the knowledge of associating with the right people---selecting the right life companion or business partner or friends or even daily acquaintances according to whether they act negatively or positively to one’s life---one can be happy. Ignorance of this law often ruins the homes of many of the successful businessmen and millionaires of America. “In India, in spite of many defects, 80 percent of the marriages are happy and successful and there are no divorces. “Yogoda teaches the art of developing this human magnetism which consists in letting the conscious cosmic current flow through one’s body steadily by developing the will power; then one can attract to himself his right vocation, right friends, right soul companion, and above all right environments. It is then that all the cravings of the heart are attained. Swami Yogananda will administer “divine healing prayer vibrations” to his entire audience at Music Hall tonight. Apparently miraculous cures have resulted from treatments in other cities, he claims.

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CURE ILLS BY CHANTING, __________ Says Swami Yogananda, Urging This Method of Healing. ____________ “Volumes of vibrations produced by a sound of unvarying pitch or tone, such as chanting, are extremely wholesome in changing the disease vibrations in a sick body.” Said Swami Yogananda in his sermon on “Healing Vibrations,” which was demonstrated rather than preached last night in Music Hall. He said: “Chanting any good word loudly or playing on the deep bass notes of the organ, or blowing the conch shell, or beating drums gently and steadily without much variation in pitch or note, produce certain volumes of vibration which are extremely wholesome in changing the disease vibrations in the bodies of sick people. While producing certain loud vibrations through chantings of affirmations before certain patients I always concentrate my will to cure the disease in them. Chanting vibrations or blowing the conch shell without strong faith on the part of the patients is of little use. “Before an untrained audience of 3,000 in Carnegie Hall, New York, and Soldiers Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh, without any rehearsal I started chanting and asked the audience to follow with me. During the chantings or affirmations I ask my audience and patients to relax and understandingly chant my affirmations of health, prosperity and spiritual realization. Then I prolong the chanting notes. Producing a deep rolling sound. I ask my patients to feel these going through their bodies, and especially thorough the diseased parts. Right in the meetings, during the chants, many have gained their hearing, received their sight, been cured of long continued smoking habits, and especially have they received great illumination which changed their lives. “This is a scientific law unknown to the West. Even a layman cannot help feeling the strong vibrations during the chanting affirmations. America literally is swept with this law and form of healing and illumination which I have successfully carried everywhere. “During the healing affirmation vibrations, whenever there is deep soul cooperation between myself and my audience, I have had the greatest results. America needs this illumination. It is a far more effective method of communing with the spirit of God than by premeditated, prearranged repetition of other’s prayers day after day without life or feeling. Prayers, affirmations charged with feeling, and spontaneous singing touch God quicker than a well planned life with a formal reception given to God through hackneyed prayers.” Tomorrow evening Swami will speak on the “Science of Healing---the power of Faith, Will, Feeling and Thought in Scientific Divine Healing.’ 7

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FEAR AND WORRY ________ Are Mental Bacteria, __________ Which Threaten Health and Happiness, Swami Yogananda Says ---Science of Healing Is Topic. _________ “Fear, worry and nervousness are mental bacteria which invade the human mind.” Said Swami Yogananda in his lecture on “The science of Healing” at Music Hall last night. He said: “An unskilled driver and motor mechanic runs a high-powered automobile badly and cannot repair it when it goes wrong. Likewise each soul, although endowed with a complicated and wonderful machine, the body and mind, because unskilled in the art of living or art of running this bodily and mental mechanism generally gets—into trouble when it goes wrong. “When an automobile goes wrong it develops certain signs of trouble. Similarly, when a human being is in trouble he develops certain inharmonious physical, mental or spiritual symptoms called disease. “Physical disease manifests in certain disorders of the physical body, accompanied with some sort of discomfort. “Mental disease is invasion of the human mind by different forms of mental bacteria, such as fear, worry, mental nervousness, etc. “Soul or spiritual disease results from ignorance invading the God-like immortal soul and producing in it consciousness of mortality and the terror and agony of death. “Being grossly identified with the physical body the soul of man notices the physical sufferings more. He is hardly aware of the invisible, acute mental or spiritual sufferings. “Hence, ever since the dawn of civilization, through the different ages, efforts have been made to cure the various physical diseases which invade the body of man. Thus we can trace the evolution of the method of handling diseases as it had occurred especially in the West. “In India the spiritual doctors developed a wonderful system and a science, and a number of unique methods of treating the psychological and spiritual as well as the physical diseases of man. “This evening Swami Yogananda will lecture in Music Hall on “The Law of Attracting Abundance and Health Consciously.” 8

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HEALTH SEEKING ________ Is Commended as Ideal __________ For Busy Americans---Swami Yogananda Also Discusses Means of Attracting Material Abundance. ________ “Although America is richer than any other country and has quite a few millionaires, that does not mean that America knows the conscious method of attracting abundance and health,” said Swami Yogananda, Hindu philosopher and poet at Music Hall last night on “How To Attract Abundance and Health Consciously.” He Said: “A general survey of American life shows that few of the 110,000,000 inhabitants of the United States go after health or abundance consciously, i.e., for an ideal. That is true because few Americans know what constitutes real health and abundance. “Although America is richer that any other country and has quite a few millionaires, that does not mean that she knows the conscious method of attracting abundance and health. Her opulence, her wealth and the 60 percent of her individual average longevity are due to her natural resources and healthful climate. “By seeking abundance and health consciously I mean that these ought to be found, not only by intelligent search, but also by the application of the higher intuitive powers as well. The Hindu mystic mind traces the hidden causes of an individual’s failure in manifesting health or true abundance. If a man fails in America after repeated attempts in securing prosperity or good health he may be considered down and out or out of luck. “The Hindu mind, after considerable research in human life, has discovered there is nothing called hereditary ill luck or good luck without a prenatal cause. It found that man’s health and abundance are dependent on certain prenatal causes as well as on his individual intelligent effort. “If we believe only in heredity we cannot but notice the inequality in the possession of good qualities or material prosperity among individuals of different families. Hereditary fortunes or misfortunes derived by men without a logical reason only shows that God is an arbitrator. He gambles with our lives as He pleases. He makes only one Henry Ford or Rockefeller or one Jesus Christ. Many intelligently strive more or less in the same way to secure an object. Why is it that one is lucky enough to get it at the exclusion of others? “Thus in consciously seeking political prosperity or individual health or abundance one must know exactly how a man’s success or failure is influenced by his own present actions or past actions. In other words, when a man, in spite of all efforts, finds himself unhealthy or unprosperous from the very beginning of his life, he ought to find out the causes of past failure lodged secretly in his subconscious mind. Richmond 10.16. 13

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“Abundance and health must be provided to each individual without distinction of caste or creed or nationality, for every individual is created in the image of God, and is a being sensitive to pain and pleasure. “Selfishness, individual or national, is productive of countless potent unhatched ills. It is only by seeking abundance and health unselfishly for the greatest good of the greatest number, and living up to the ideal of truth and justice, that we can lastingly and consciously become happy by the removal of deep-seated causes, of human catastrophes and failures. 9

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ILLNESS CURED ________ By Tonal Vibrations, __________ Hindu Teacher Tells Audience--Effect of Waves on Body Cells Is Outlined. ________________

“As waves passing over an unclean area wash it of all impurities, so also strong tremors of vibrations moving through the tissues of the ultra-sensitive human body cells, wash away the disease lodged therein.” Said Swami Yogananda, Hindu philosopher, in his address at Music Hall last night. Among other things he said: “Recently we read in the New York Times that an experiment was shown in which a certain vibration of the violin extinguished the light of a candle. Vibrations act like waves. As waves passing over an unclean area can wash it of all impurities, so also strong tremors of vibrations moving through the fine tissues of the ultrasensitive human body cells, wash away the diseases lodged therein. That is why good songs, when properly listened to, often dispel dark sorrow from the brain. Singers generally (??????) (???????) with only deepest and most powerful notes. “These powerful expressions of a song not only inspire the mind but thrill the body of the listener. This thrilling vibration is a distinct physiological reaction induced by the vibrations of the songs. The waves of the thrill passing over the body of the attentive listener of an inspired song really carry healing soothing vibrations. I have cured many receptive, song-sensitive individuals with my song. Madam Galli-Curci and her husband, who are very devoted students, fully realize this power in music. In their paradise-like home in the Catskill Mountains I passed a few days this summer, and we three chanting in unison used to receive great illuminations. Listening to the vibration within, Madam Galli-Curci was healed of many physical ailments and mental restlessness. “By devotion the vibration of Jesus Christ or the Sacred Spirit of God, or the souls of the saints of India could be instilled into the Hindu Vedic chants. Any vibration which is loudly expressed affects most people, but vibrations which are loud, long drawn out, and rhythmic as well as charged with Christ spirit or Holy presence of the great comforting God, are more potent in their power of cure. Hence all effective healing, chanting vibrations ought to be surcharged with spiritual concentration as Yogoda teaches. “Many eminent singers have not only charmed their audiences through Yogoda, but have healed many listeners of physical aliments. As a loud cry or a sarcastic outburst makes one sick at heart, so also a kind voice can flush he excited nerves with calmness and effect a physical healing. “The saints of India from very ancient times have known the art of vibrating certain notes into the air through the specific intonation of their vedic chants, which acted as

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inducements to awaken the silent healing power of God and cosmic energy to work quickly in dispelling disease, sorrow or poverty. “The tone of our voice always affects our friends in a specific way, so also chanting vibrations carried on through devotion and directed towards sick people will surely affect them in a curative way. “Learning the law of vibration in intoning sounds spontaneously is a deep study. It is possible for one to affect others through the medium of their specific voices charged with their personality. Let every one study the universal laws of creating certain universal intonations, surcharged with a degree of mental will power. Then results in physical healing will certainly be secured.” His subject this evening will be “Spiritual Marriage.” 10

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CONCENTRATION _________ Essential To Success, __________ Swami Yogananda Declares in Final Public Lecture. ___________ Man Without Such Ability Is Likened To Powerful Gun Without Gunpowder. _______ Failure of most people is due to their lack of the ability to concentrate on one thing, declares Swami Yogananda, Hindu philosopher, in his final public lecture at Music Hall last night. His subject was “The Highest Technique of Meditation, Success and Yogoda.” He said in part: “When I met the great coloratura Madam Galli-Curci, of celestial voice, she asked me what concentration was and wherein lay the spring of inspiration. “’I have a great deal of concentration through my songs,’ she said, ‘but I do not know how to draw consciously from the well of inspiration, for I am more inspired sometimes than other times.’ “’I can write poems or lectures on horseback or while someone is playing a drum around me, for I have found the well of inspiration through the adjustable searchlight of my concentration.’ said I. Reason Better Through Logic. “Everybody knows how to reason, but by studying logic one can reason better. So also, everybody possesses a degree of unconscious concentration acquired as the byproduct of the vocation which one follows, but the person who learns the Yogoda art of concentration can concentrate better. He can switch on or off the life energy in his body, acquiring the power of instantaneous relaxation under exciting circumstances, or launching forth energy quickly in his body at will. Yogoda teaches the technique of concentration, meditation and the recharging of the body battery by the power of will from within. “The doctor, the musician, the scientist, the artist, the professor, the poet, the spiritual man, the preacher, and, above all, the business man and woman, have to acquire concentrations and preserve physical energy to accomplish their respective ends. “A man with a great ambition, but without concentration or physical energy, is like an ambitious powerful gun without gunpowder. Richmond 10.16. 13

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“Concentration means focusing one’s attention on any object of interest by first disengaging the attention from all distractions. “Meditation is that form of concentration which is directed inward to know God. The devotee of a church must know how to pray or meditate by learning the method of concentration; otherwise, while saying the Lord’s Prayer, he might be thinking of the Sunday chicken diner. The Hindu savants definitely train their students in the art of directing attention toward God before asking then to love Him. “Most failures in business always carry on their work unconsciously ignorant of the art of directing attention. The man of concentration not only sees the object lying in front of him but also finds out the successful path, which he ought to follow. “Many business men and women, while thinking of their business problems, get their attention snatched away by a million desires and distractions. If you are thinking of a picnic party while you think you are thinking about vital problems of your business you cannot succeed. People become accustomed to distractions, and they never can focus their minds in the right place, at the right time. Thus they never act on time and consequently do not succeed. “One-sided concentration makes one an imperfect business man or artist or an amateur spiritual man, but the man of concentration can be a poet or a business man or a great spiritual man just as he desires. “A crippled man, sitting with eyes transfixed in one direction, searchlight in his hand, cannot see in any other direction; but a normal man with an adjustable searchlight can look in all directions. “So the ordinary business man can use his concentration only for partial business success, but the concentration adept can throw the searchlights of his attention into all the avenues of success on the dark forest of life. Most successful American businessmen use only five percent of their attention consciously. “By the knowledge of the Yogoda art of focusing attention one can be an all-round success. “I have made myself an all-round success by experimenting, by concentration on literature, poetry, origination, business, philosophy, activity quietness, etc. “Concentration, meditation and recharging the body-battery are the three doors that lead to the abode and palace of all power.” Swami will conduct his private classes in Yogoda for several weeks, beginning tomorrow night, at the Hotel Gibson Roof Garden. 11

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ASSORTED COMMENTS FROM THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ABOUT SWAMI YOGANANDA. ____________ “The presence in town of Swami Yogananda, whose address in Music Hall made so deep an impression upon cultural Cincinnati that it has kept this well-known East Indian here to conduct a series of classes dedicated to his philosophy, has resulted in the formation of groups studying the simple system of Yogoda…It was presented by the Swami in simple, expressive sincerity, with a wealth of metaphor and an impressive dignity which sent its message home with engrossing results. As this method insures the perfect guidance of the conscious will, forming it to come and go at call, it energizes every organ, charging and releasing the body battery at command. As it improves the center of consciousness and the power of mental receptivity, it was found to be, even in its introductory exercises, valuable, easy to acquire and thoroughly synonymous with health, strength and resistance to fatigue,” 12 “Swami Yogananda, Hindu educator, philosopher and poet, discussed all questions with equal ease before a group of newspaper persons…His English was perfect and flowed with ease as he discussed religion, politics, mysticism, poetry, reformations, adding definitions occasionally that showed him to be no mean lexicographer… “Every question brought forth an answer in which infinite thought was expressed…There is no sign of either youth or age in his face. Looking into eyes that could be said to be almost unsophisticated, one could see no trace of the flight of time over him. Time has left the Swami unmarked---ageless. “Defending America against the accusation that she is a materialistic nation, the Swami said: ‘The very fact that this country has given millions in the past year for institutions for the healing of the sick, for educational purposes, for spiritual teachings, is ample evidence of America’s spirituality’. “As a reformer, the Swami teaches his audiences how to live different and better lives. He expressed his belief that a combination of the spirituality and inactivity of his country with the bustle and push of America would make a perfect union… Swami Yogananda has no dogmatic creed for religion.” 13 December 2, 1926: “Yesterday at his ‘Hindu Health Luncheon’ in the Hotel Sinton ballroom, Swami Yogananda was greeted by over a thousand men and women who sat down at flower decked tables, hundreds being turned away. In this enthusiastic throng there were distinguished men of affairs, bankers, literateurs, medical men, leaders of fashion, clergymen, and indeed followers drawn from many walks of life. *** “Swami Yogananda is here to offer his help to all citizens who care to receive the benefits of his experience, and not to any class, for he believes, and has proven, that through it both happiness and health are assured. His students quite agree with him.” 14 Richmond 10.16. 13

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Review of the book entitled, ‘Songs of the Soul’ by Swami Yogananda: “Though he never studied a word in the making of poetry, yet he read (one of his poems), a perfect stanza in iambic pentameter. Every sentence almost was an aphorism.” 15

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