Paramahansa Yogananda — Collected Poems

Paramahansa Yogananda made poetry part of spiritual practice. After arriving in the United States in 1920 and establishing Los Angeles as the center of Self-Realization Fellowship, he used English lyric forms to address God not as a distant abstraction but as mother, beloved, light, silence, cosmic music, and an intimate presence hidden inside ordinary experience. Songs of the Soul moves between devotional cry, playful dialogue, natural image, and ecstatic vision; Whispers from Eternity expands that voice into prayers and meditations meant to be spoken, repeated, and lived. The poems carry Indian philosophical traditions into American religious language while preserving the urgency of direct encounter. This Collected Poems gathers the recoverable verse from the books and periodicals, revealing a literary dimension of Yogananda’s work that complements—but is not overshadowed by—the worldwide fame of Autobiography of a Yogi.