“If India's idea of an International Yoga Day has found easy acceptance in the UN, much of the credit must go to Paramahansa Yogananda, India's first yoga guru in the US…he played a huge role in laying the foundation for yoga in the United States a century ago.” —The Times of India
“Yogananda can be said to be the father of yoga in the West... not the mere physical yoga that has become popular, but the spiritual yoga, the science of Self-realization that is the real meaning of yoga.” —Dr. David Frawley (Director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies)
“Like any other science, yoga is applicable by people of every clime and time. The theory advanced by certain ignorant writers that yoga is ‘dangerous’ or ‘unsuitable’ for Westerners is wholly false, and has lamentably deterred many sincere students from seeking its manifold blessings.
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to men of the East and to men of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest need exists for yoga: the science of mind control.” —Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi)
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