Margaret Salinger wrote in her memoir "Dream Catcher" that she believes her parents would not have married, nor would she have been born, had her father not read the teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya, a guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, which brought the possibility of enlightenment to those following the path of the "householder" (a married person with children).
Imela sta dva otroka, Margaret (rojena 10. decembra 1955) in Matthewa (rojen 13. februarja 1960).