God First

On this day in 1931, on a lecture tour in Salt Lake City, Paramahansa Yogananda met Faye Wright, who would later become Sri Daya Mata, future president of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship (from 1955 until her passing in 2010).

'...The tiny 100-pound saint radiated physical, mental, and spiritual health. His soft brown eyes shone with intelligence, sincerity, and discrimination; this statesman has matched wits and emerged the victor in a thousand legal, social, and political battles. No other leader in the world has attained the secure niche in the hearts of his people that Gandhi occupies for India’s unlettered millions. Their spontaneous tribute is his famous title — Mahatma, “great soul.” For them alone Gandhi confines his attire to the widely cartooned loincloth, symbol of his oneness with the downtrodden masses who can afford no more.'

— Paramahansa Yogananda
"Autobiography of a Yogi"

Further Reading:
📖 yssi.org/AoY
📖 yssi.org/AYTranslations