All quotes and the photo are from "Rajarshi Janakananda", published by Self-Realization Fellowship.

"Only my love for Divine Mother is wanted. How distressed I am when pulled away from Her and from communion with Her loved ones. I cannot live of the world and would prefer not to live in it. Drinking, smoking, and worldliness, selfishness in business and otherwise, just kill my soul-it is this environment that causes me such intense suffering. Will meditate and try to get away from the world. Am with you in spirit... how joyful it would be to be with you in person. But there are yet many things I must do before my work and business are in condition for me to leave again. I am looking forward with deepest earnestness to my return home. What a heavenly blessing that will be. Please do write often... Even short notes or just a word from your heart help to sustain me to a degree that I know it is hard for you to realize. When one knows the sweetness of Heaven on earth and is snatched away by worldly environment he suffers the agonies of Hades but my heart will be stout enough to carry on. Divine blessings, devotion, and boundless love, Your little boy." - From a letter to Paramahamsa Yogananda

"Before I met Paramahansaji [Yogananda] the thought had not occurred to me that man could be conscious to a fuller extent than I was at that time. Yet, having enjoyed the things of the world, I had come to a point of distress; because, as I said a moment ago, my soul was sick and my body was not well. Nothing seemed to satisfy me. If you have had an opportunity to observe the rich, those with vast possessions, you have found that most of them are discontented and unhappy. Wealth without wisdom cannot give joy. All of us are seeking joy in life; in everything we do we are seeking happiness."

"I awoke around two or three o'clock in the morning on January 5th, and saw Lahiri Mahasaya in the greatest blaze of light in which he has ever manifested to me. Then, one by one, Sri Yukteswar, Babaji, and Master [Paramahamsa Yogananda] appeared. Master lifted me out of the body and we floated together over many gatherings of people. Master blessed each group as we floated over it. We were not walking, but floating overhead. It seemed as though Master wanted all the people to know that I was with him. I was with Master a long time, from two or three o'clock until nine o'clock-the longest I have ever been with him in this way. Master is very busy there, just as busy as he was when he lived here-helping the people in those other spheres, teaching them the way of salvation and how to achieve, their own Self-realization."