Mining Nerode's Teachings from the Archives of the Inner Culture East-West Magazine
by Donald Castellano-Hoyt
The writings of Nerode are the writings of a soul who sees all others, not as sinners but as fellow seekers. His writings are those of a tirtha maker, one who helps people cross over the rough waters of the ocean of spiritual delusion. To this end Self-Realization Fellowship announced in the March special edition of the 1937 Inner Culture magazine that Nerode had initiated more than 10,000 disciples into the technique of Self-Realization (p. 44). “He has done admirable work.”
The East-West World-Wide Inner Culture Magazine continues to be a wondrous archive of spiritual depth and mystic experience.
This book (derived from that archive) would have been the third edition of "American Yogi-Christ Sri Nerode: Restoring His Long-Lost Teachings of Inner Culture East-West Magazine" previously published elsewhere. Likewise it includes six new articles discovered in the East-West magazine archives (and not previously published elsewhere). In the last of these six talks Nerode discusses his spiritual relationship with Yoganandaji ("Convocation Talk,"March 1938).
However this new first edition volume omits inclusion of Nerode's daily meditation contributions, in favor of a future volume that will include both meditations and poetry.
This new American Yogi Sri Nerode volume removes the 'christ' designation from the title to avoid controversy with those who know him and don't see him as a christ.
We are dedicated to publishing Sri Nerode's religious studies archive.
This archive of Sri Nerode's writings offers spiritual guidance and practical insights into meditation and mindfulness, highlighting his Advaita belief that the guru resides within the devotee. Before joining Yogananda's Yogoda movement in 1926, Sri Nerode was a well-established mystic. He arrived in 1919 in Boston, having spent over five years as an itinerant minister in India and Burma, and had done graduate studies at Harvard and the University of California. These writings will inspire you profoundly.
by Sri Nerode
This earth of ours is a very very small, very tiny, yet beautifully flowery, grassy island floating on this measureless and mobile cosmos. Man will never travel from one end of the universe to the other. Besides, there are unnumbered universes that even astronomy will never peep into. Yet every intelligent person is born with a master in himself, in herself. This
master is fantastically one interconnected consciousness interweaving all that existed, exists or will ever exist.
Nobility and integrity are the supreme beauty of man’s world. To express them in their fullest bloom requires the utmost effort and perseverance.
Therefore in The Master in You it has been emphasized again and again in order to awaken this warm universal sensitivity in every individual. Once we are aroused to this root knowledge, everything else becomes an easy pursuit.
Open the door of the master in you, you will open the door to all things. This super confidence in self is true faith in the Universal Consciousness.