Richmond 10.16. 13 1 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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Paramhansa Yogananda's speeches published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Circa 1926
“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.”
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Richmond 10.16. 13 1
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. P. 3
HINDU TO SPEAK TONIGHT. P. 4
NERVOUSNESS Is Undermining Health P. 5
SCRAP MACHINE GUNS P. 8
WILL NEGLECTED By American People, P. 9
DIVORCE COURT May be Avoided Easily P. 12
CURE ILLS BY CHANTING P. 15
FEAR AND WORRY Are Mental Bacteria, P. 16
HEALTH SEEKING Is Commended as Ideal P. 17
ILLNESS CURED By Tonal Vibrations, P. 19
CONCENTRATION Essential To Success, P. 21
ASSORTED COMMENTS P. 23
ENDNOTES P. 25
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LECTURER
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Is To Arrive Today.
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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.
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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.
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“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
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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.
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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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SCRAP MACHINE GUNS
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And Concentrate on Peace,
Hindu Teacher Advises at Meeting.
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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