[Illustration: Luther Burbank's signature--see bsignature.jpg]
{FN38-2} New York: Century Co., 1922.
CHAPTER: 39
THERESE NEUMANN, THE CATHOLIC STIGMATIST
"Return to india. I have waited for you patiently for fifteen
years. Soon I shall swim out of the body and on to the Shining
Abode. Yogananda, come!"
Sri Yukteswar's voice sounded startlingly in my inner ear as I sat
in meditation at my Mt. Washington headquarters. Traversing ten
thousand miles in the twinkling of an eye, his message penetrated
my being like a flash of lightning.
Fifteen years! Yes, I realized, now it is 1935; I have spent fifteen
years in spreading my guru's teachings in America. Now he recalls
me.
That afternoon I recounted my experience to a visiting disciple.
His spiritual development under KRIYA YOGA was so remarkable that
I often called him "saint," remembering Babaji's prophecy that America
too would produce men and women of divine realization through the
ancient yogic path.
This disciple and a number of others generously insisted on making a
donation for my travels. The financial problem thus solved, I made
arrangements to sail, via Europe, for India. Busy weeks of preparations
at Mount Washington! In March, 1935 I had the Self-Realization
Fellowship chartered under the laws of the State of California as
a non-profit corporation. To this educational institution go all
public donations as well as the revenue from the sale of my books,
magazine, written courses, class tuition, and every other source
of income.
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