In 1931, Thomas Sturge Moore introduced Purohit to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
[1] Yeats wrote an introduction to Purohit's 1932 book, The Autobiography of an Indian Monk: His Life And His Adventures.
In 1934, Purohit was mentioned in Bhagwan Shri Hamsa's book The Holy Mountain, supplemented with an introduction by Yeats.
He represents a very important but largely unremembered link between the generation of Swami Vivekananda and the post-World War II society in which Eastern thought has become an accepted element of spiritual life.
During his state visit in June 2023 to the US, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi presented the Bidens with a first edition print of the book The Ten Principal Upanishads (1937), translated from Sanskrit by Purohit Swami and Yeats.