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Date Posted: 07:19:22 10/23/03 Thu
Author: anjaneya - 15 Aug 2003
Subject: Convocation Speeches 1937

Convocation Speeches 1937
As Printed in Inner Culture

Dr. Lewis of Boston
Dr. M. W. Lewis, leader of the Boston Self-Realization Center, and one of Swamiji’s first students when he came to this country sixteen years ago, was one of the speakers at the Yogoda Convocation banquet. He said:
"I am very happy to be here with Swamiji, and to bring you all the greetings of Boston. Words cannot express my feeling. I shall have to let my heart speak in its own language. In wishing you all the happiest year in 1937, I think the greatest wish I can give you is that you will have deep spiritual realization and that you will find God in your meditation. Dive deeply in the ocean of Spirit and if you don’t find Him at the first dive, dive deeper. As Swamiji says, find fault with your diving. I might add a humble suggestion. When you dive take Swamiji’s hand. He knows where the pearls of wisdom are. He knows the Spirit. He can show you God".


Sri Nerode of Miami

Sri Nerode, former leader of the Mount Washington Center and lately leader of the Miami, Florida Center, spoke at The Yogoda Convocation Banquet as follows:
"Loving Swamiji, silent Sage, smiling Mr. Moss, brilliant fellow-workers, wonderful devotional workers of Mount Washington Center, my good old friends and the new ones, may I tell you all that since we leaders have been here we have been living in a fourth dimensional world. Many of you are craving for that stage of mental and spiritual growth. Ever since I came here from Miami, I have been continuously intoxicated with the Divine Love and inspiration and wisdom of our Master as well as our most wonderful friend and patron, St. Lynn.
"A month ago I went to meet Swamiji in Kansas City. I followed him to St. Louis and then to Denver and then returned home to Miami. My wife told me I had improved greatly. The intuition of women is correct. A fortnight ago, when Swamiji sent me a wire arranging for my trip here, my wife was very happy to urge me to go. I asked her why. She replied, ‘When you come back you will be so much better.’
"Since I met Swamiji many years ago, little by little I have tried to gather light from his great flame. Many times Swamiji has said, ‘One moon is greater in its light than all the stars’. We have two of them. One is Swamiji and the other is our beloved Saint.
"I have had many sorrows in my life. But by the loving waters of Swamiji’s spirit, he has washed them away. I am blessed that I came here. I came for two things, for his inspiration and for the love of God. Because, when we go out to preach, what can we preach unless we preach more God and more love? Just as the river needs to be nourished by the waters of the hill-top, so we need that water of wisdom and love and God from the hill-top of our Master of realization".


Brahmachari Jotin of Washington

Brahmachari Jotin, leader of the Self-Realization Center in Washington, D. C., for the past nine years, was one of the speakers at the Yogoda banquet. Swami Yoganandaji introduced Jotin as one of the students trained in Ranchi at Swamiji’s Yogoda Sat-Sanga school there. Swamiji also spoke highly of Jotin’s early work in organizing the alumni of Ranchi and keeping alive the spirit of the ex-students, as well as his very meritorious work in this country.
Brahmachari Jotin concluded a very eloquent and stirring address with these words:
"In India it is a custom that after the education of the disciple is finished, he is to go on a pilgrimage. The Master of one such disciple said to him, ‘Now, my son, your education is completed; you must now go on a pilgrimage.’ The disciple stood up, circled around the Master three times and then fell at the Master’s feet, saying, ‘Master, I have just finished visiting all the holy places on earth. Where the Master is sitting, there is God. That is the holiest of all places. Where else shall I go on my pilgrimage?’ This visit to Mount Washington has been to me a pilgrimage. If I had traveled all over the world and had not visited this temple and headquarters, I would consider my journey had all been in vain. Being here at my Master’s holy feet, I have visited all the holy places on earth."

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