Wealth & Money Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda builds a pipeline of grace: soul to heart to eyes, then outward into the world. It is spiritual logistics dressed up as tenderness. The phrasing treats a smile less as a mood than as an instrument of transmission, almost a sacrament. That matters because it quietly demotes the ego. You are not being asked to perform cheerfulness or “stay positive”; you are being asked to become a clear channel, so whatever is deepest in you can be legible in the most ordinary human interface: the face.

The subtext is disciplined compassion. “Let my soul” reads like a petition, not a brag. The smile is not self-generated optimism but something permitted, cultivated, then offered. Yogananda’s rhetorical chain also suggests an ethical hygiene: if the soul must pass through the heart before reaching the eyes, then the inner life has to be softened, metabolized, made warm enough to be seen. Eyes without heart become surveillance, judgment, charisma without care. He wants the opposite: visible gentleness with an inner source.

Context sharpens the stakes. As a Hindu monk and global teacher of Kriya Yoga, Yogananda preached spiritual realization alongside practical daily conduct in an era rattled by world wars, migration, and the churn of modernity. “Scatter rich smiles in sad hearts” frames public life as a field hospital, not a stage. Richness here isn’t volume; it’s quality - a smile with spiritual backing, meant to comfort without condescension, to offer contact without claiming control.