The "New Dispensation" of spiritual understanding expressed by Yogananda includes an embrace of life and this world as a divine manifestation: not only or simply as "maya", or delusion. In short: BOTH-AND.
Today's poem is "Yogoda Dream Hermitage," Yogananda's paean of gratitude for the Encinitas Hermitage gifted to him by his beloved, St. Lynn.
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