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Whitman’s “Passage to India” and Yogananda’s “My India”: Complimentary to Each Other

Author(s) Mr. Sukanta Barman
Country India
Abstract The present article aims to detail Whitman’s “Passage to India” (1871) and Yogananda’s “My India” (1929) and to show how the two poems depict shape India to the mutual benefits of both America and India. The central idea of the “Passage to India” was conceived, according to Golden Arthur, in a Notebook of fourteen pages. The central objects jotted down were Colombus, the Union Pacific Railroad of May, 1869 and particularly India: “To the mystic wisdom-the lore of all old philosophy"(Arthur 1095). According to Gay Wilson Allen, “Passage to India” owes the Western scientific and technological developments to the origin – “Passage indeed O soul to primal thought” (Whitman 430), that is, India: “To reason's early paradise, /Back, back to wisdom's birth, to innocent intuitions, /Again with fair creation” (Whitman 430) Allen’s remark aptly captures the theme America’s India, India’s America – “I hope that Walt Whitmans passage to India may become a two way cultural journey” (Allen 44) Stanley K Coffman, Jr. in his essay “Form and Meaning in Whitman’s Passage to India” reminds us that in Democratic Vistas Walt Whitman describes his poem as “image-making work”.1 Therefore, it is needless to say that in his poem “Passage to India” he has tried to do the same, that is, to make the image both of India and America. One great saint from India, Paramahamsa Yogananda went to the West with the message of India’s Yoga Philosophy. When Yogananda died in the year 1952, he had his self-composed verse “My India” in his lips. The poem matches Whitman’s “Passage to India” as both the poems glorify India in the same vein. So, the common interest lies in India becoming more materially prospering with America’s help and on the other hand, America becoming more spiritually inclined with the help of India
Keywords Whitman, India, Yogananda, spirituality, materialism, love, knowledge.
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Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-04
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