Yogananda: The Life of a Saint

With so much turmoil in the world sometimes it is difficult to peer through the darkness and see the light surrounding us Thankfully there are scenes who through their teachings have enabled us to find the inner peace we also does partly seek Paramahansa Yogananda is one such guru who truly lived the life of a Saint Paramahansa yogananda also known as paramahansa yogananda with the given name of Michelangelo god was born on January 5th, 1893 and died on March 7th, 1952 U2 Yogananda was an Indian monk, a Yogi and Gurú who introduced millions of people the world over to the Teachings of meditation and kriya yoga through his organisation the self realisation Fellowship Paramahansa Yogananda published his book, "Autobiography of a Yogi" back in 1946, And to this day it remains on Harper San francisco\'s list of the 100 spiritual books of the 20th century Few written works have offered as much inspiration and introspection as Yogananda´s book And as a result it has been regularly reprinted and is known fondly as the book that changed the lives of millions "Autobiography of a Yogi" is easily the most popular among Yogananda's books According to Philip Goldberg Author of American V the self realisation fellowship which represents Yogananda´s legacy Is Justified in using the slogan the book that changed the lives of millions Is a sold 4 millions copies and counting During 2006 the books publisher Self-Realisation Fellowship Celebrated the 60th anniversary of autobiography of a Yogi with a series of projects designed to promote the legacy of the men, thousands of disciples still referred to as master "Autobiography of a Yogi" details Yogananda spiritual search In addition to his numerous Runnings with significant spiritual figures such as Theresa Newman Send a Mima and Mahatma Gandhi The book is dedicated to the memory of Luther Burbank, ´an American Saint´, famous Indian scientist so jagadish Chandra Bose and Nobel laureate in Physics One consequential chapter of this book is the law of Miracles, in which he gives scientific explanation What\'s the what were thought to be miraculous feet He write the word impossible is becoming less prominent in men's vocabulary The book has been an inspiration for many people including luminaries such as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, and Steve Jobs In the book´s Steve Jobs biography, the author writes that Jobs first read the autobiography as a teenager, He raided in India and later while preparing for a tree He downloaded it onto his iPad 2 and then reread it once a year ever since A proud member of a Hindu family, Yogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh India According to his younger brother Sananda, Even at his youngest Mukunda's awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond ordinary Some have gone to even classified as extraordinary His father, Bhagwati Charan Ghosh, Served as the vice president of the Bengal Nagpur railway and due to the constant travelling brought about by his job, he would move his family to several cities during Yogananda childhood These cities included Lahore and Kolkata His father would buy him train passes for his many childhood sightseeing adventures too far away cities, And of course pilgrimage Spa During his childhood he learnt about many of India's Hindu sages and saints Including the so Ham tiger Swami Gandhi Baba and Mahendra Nath Gupta Yogananda was hoping that he would find himself and an illuminated teacher to guide him along in his spiritual Quest Upon graduating High School, Yoga and formerly left his home and joined a man Manzil Hermitage Inverness However he soon became unhappy with its insistence on organisational work instead of meditation and God perception Like many others Yoganada and then began praying for guides It was in 1910 that is search for a teacher ended when at the age of 17 he met them Who would become his guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri In his book Yoga Ananda describes his first meeting with sorry your desk as a reigniting of a relationship did last for several lifetime `We entered a oneness of silence; word Seems the rankersta superfluities Eloquence flowed in sound chant from heart of master to disciple With an antenna of irrefragable insight I sensed that my Guru new god And would lead me to him The obscuration of this life disappeared in a fragile dawn of prenatal memories Dramatic time present and future or it's cycling scenes This was not the first son to find me at these holy feet Yogananda would go on to train under Sir Yukteswa as his disciple for the next 10 years from 1910 through to 1920 at his hermitages in Serampore and Puri Later on Sir Yukteswa informed to Yoganandad that an important task was at hand He had been sent to him by the great Guru of their line Mahavatar Babaji, for a special purpose: Worldwide dissemination of yoga After async is intermediate examination in art from the Scottish Church college in Calcutta in June 1915, Yagananda graduated with a degree Similar to a currently bachelor OBA from serum The college have 2 entities One is the constituent College of The Senate of 7 pork collar And the other as an affiliated College of the University of Calcutta This allowed Yogananda to spend some time at the Yukteswar ashram in Serampore

It was in 1915 that he took formal vowels into the monastic Swami order and became Sky Swami Yonaganda Giri Shortly thereafter, in 1917 Yogananda founded a school for boys in Dihika, West Bengal, that combined modern educational techniques With yoga training and spiritual ideals After a year the school was relocated to rent One of the school's first pupils What is youngest brother bishnu charan Ghosh who learned yoga asanas there and, in turn, taught asanas to Bikram Choudhury Yoga Nintendo school would later become known as the yogoda satsanga society of in the Indian branch of Yogananda's U

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-based organization, Self-Realization Fellowship It was in 1920 that Yogananda travels to the United States Aboard a ship known as city of Sparta He arrived there assuming the role of India's delegate to an international Congress of religious liberals convening in Boston That same year he founded the SRF The self realisation Fellowship to distributors worldwide teachings on India's ancient practices and Philosophy of yoga and it´s tradition of Meditation For the next few years he taught and lectured on the East Coast until in 1924 he decided to embark on a cross-continental speaking tour Thousands of curious Followers and soon-to-be followers would file into his always crowded lectures It was within this time period that he garnered and number of celebrity followers Including Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci and Clara Clements who was the daughter of Mark Twain It wasn't long before he is established an international centre for Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles California This centre became the spiritual and administrative heart this growing work Yoga Ananda what\'s the first ever Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a major portion of his life in a He lived in the United States for over 3 decades from 1920 to 1952 and only left to embark on an extended trip abroad from 1935 to 1936 To visit is Guru in India Though he did make trips to other living Western scenes such as Therese Neumann, the Catholic stigmatist And places of spiritual importance while on There was a time however when this man of Peace was being watched closely for the wrong reasons Yoganand was added to a government watch and kept under surveillance by the FBI and the British The US and Great Britain were concerned about the growing independence movement in India A secret file was kept on him from the years 1926 until 1937 Over his religious and tomorrow practice In 1935Yogananda returns to India to visit his guru Yukteswar Giri To help establish his yogoda satsanga work there During this visit he met with the great Mahatma Gandhi and introduced him into the liberating technique of Kriya yoga Because Gandhi Express his into to receive the kriya yoga of Lahiri Mahasaya While staying in India, Sri Yukteswar while gave Yogananda the monastic title of Paramahansa Paramahansa translates to supreme Swan, and it´s a title indicating the highest spiritual Payment In the year 1936 while Yogananda was visiting Calcutta, York Tesco attained Mattison a final soul liberation After returning to the United States, Yoga Nanda continue to lecture right and open churches in Southern California He lived at the SRF Hermitage in in Encinitas which was a surprise gift from his disciple Rajarsi Janakananda

Anaconda It was one of the Hermitage that yogan is a route his famous ´Autobiography of a Yogi´ and others writtings Also at this time he created and in during foundation for the spiritual and humanitarian work of Self-Realization Fellowship And the Pagoda satsanga Society of India It was there that Yogananda wrote out his aims and ideals They are to disseminate among the nations and knowledge of definite scientific technique for retaining direct personal experience of God to teach that the purpose of life is the evolution through self effort Of men\'s limited mortal consciousness into god conscious And to descend to establish self-realization fellowship temples for God Communion throug around the world And to encourage the establishment of individual Temples of God in the homes and in the hearts of men To reveal the complete Harmony and basic oneness of original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ and the original yoga as taught by Bhagavan Krishna and to show that these principles of Truth are there Scientific Foundation of all true religion To point out the one divine Highway to which all parts of true religious beliefs eventually lead That is the highway of daily scientific devotional meditation on God Deliberate man from his threefold suffer Physical disease Mental in harmonies and spiritual ignorance To encourage Plain living and high thinking And to spread a spirit of Brotherhood among call people By teaching the Eternal basis of their unit Kinship with God To demonstrate the superiority of mind over body out of Soul over mine To overcome evil Bible Sorry by Joy Cruelty by kindness and Ignorance by wisdom To you now Science and religion True realisation of the unity of the underlying principle To advocate cultural and spiritual understanding between Eastern And the exchange of the finest distinctive To serve mankind as one\'s largest self In his published work The self-realization fellowship lessons Yoghurt and offers his in-depth instruction in the practice of the highest yoga science of God realisation That ancient science is embodied within the meditation technique And the specific principles of kriya yoga Yoga and taught his students the need for the direct experience of true As opposed to blind belief Yogananda That the true basis of religion is not fully Intuitive expiry Intuition is the souls power of knowing God To know what religion is really all about One must know go In line with the more traditional Hindu teaching Yogananda instructed his followers that the entire universe was God\'s cosmic Motion Picture We are all merely actors in The Divine play Who possessed the ability to change their roles fire reincarnation Yogananda maintained that maintains deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with ones Control rather than with a movie director The reason that you\'re going in the taught kriya yoga And other meditation practice What\'s the help people open themselves to the understanding that he caused self-realization Self realisation is the new ing in body mind and soul We are one with the omnipresence of God But we do not have to prove it it comes to us But we are not Mary near it at all times But the God\'s omnipresence is our omelette We are just as much a part of him now as we ever will All we have to do is improve our knowing The science of kriya yoga is the Foundation of yoga and his teachings Kriya yoga is uni Yoga with the infinite through a certain action alright which is known as cream The sanskrit root of Korea is Cree or two due to act Andrew Kriya yoga was passed down through yoga and Gorillaz Mahavatar Babaji Square yoga two lahiri mahasaya who tortured to his Disciple you take awhile Gary yoga Nanda School Yoga and David general description of kriya yoga in his autobiography The courier Yogi mentally directors life energy to revolve Upwards and downwards around the 6 spinal set Madonna Cervical dorsal lumbar sacral and coccygeal plexuses Which correspond to the 12 Astra signs of the zodiac The symbolic cosmic man 1/2 minute of Revolution of energy around the centre of spinal cord of Man Shuffle progress in his evolution That half minute of career Equals one year of natural spiritual and fold 3 Marina Lima The former president of the srf and ys Once said Kriya yoga is so effect So Because it brings God\'s love The universal power through which god draws All Souls back to reunion with him into operation in the Davao Is life Yoga as a route in autobiography of a Yogi But the actual technique should be learnt from an authorised kriya yoga known as a courier van of self Realisation Fellowship Pogoda satsanga Society of India Kriya yoga is recounted by its practitioners as the ancient yogis system revived in modern time Spy mahavatar Babaji through his disciple lahiri mahasaya Kriya yoga gained international recognition by Paramore Hansa yogananda book autobiography Yogi And through your goodness introductions of the practice to the west from 1920 Simply put Kriya yoga is the yoga of action According to yoganand The ancient yogic The yoga sutras of patanjali contains a description of kriya yoga in the second chapter Liberation can be attained by that pranayama which is accomplished by destroying the course of inspiration And expiration The kriya yoga system is comprised of a number of levels of pranayama mantra and mudra Based on techniques intended to rapidly move towards spiritual development and enter a profound state of tranquil The anti god commune Attributed description of kriya yoga to his language of guru SRi yukteswar giri lahiri mahasaya And mahavatar Babaji The latter is said to have introduced the concept as essentially the same as the Roger yoga of Adam John And the idea of yoga as described in the bhagavad Gita Kriya yoga as taught by lahiri mahasaya is for the most part exclusively learnt fires Guru Disciple relationship and the initiation consists of a confidential Sarah Ennis yoga describes kriya yoga The creagh Yogi mentally directions life energy to revolve upward and downward around the six Final sentence Such as the Madonna Cervical dorsal lumbar sacral and coccygeal plexus Which corresponds to the 12 Astra signs of the zodiac The symbolic cosmic man 1/2 minutes of Revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of men effects Suffolk Road Evolution That half minute of career equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment The process of Performing kriya yoga is said to lead to a purification of ones Which in turn will free up the life for To withdraw its way into 1 spine Kriya yoga is a simple psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonised And recharged with oxygen The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life cover To rejuvenate the brain and spinal Centre By stopping the accumulation of venous blood The Yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissue Enter the advanced Yogi transmute his cells into Pure energy Elijah Jesus Kabir and other Pro The past masters in the use of career or a similar technique by which they cause their bodies to mateer Realise and dematerialise at will Swami satyananda Road Career Sedona may be thought of as the sadhana of the practice of being inactive Yogananda wrote in God\'s talk with arjuna the bhagavad Gita that the science of kriya yoga was give The first man according to the beach And threw him to Jamaica and other royal sage According to yoga Kriya yoga was very popular in Ancient India but was eventually lost because Priestley secrecy and demands and if Yogananda says that Krishna is referring to create a yoga in the bhagavad-gita Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath And offering the ant going breath into the inhaling breath The Yogi neutralises both these breasts He bus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control Also The Krishna was talking about kriya yoga When Krishna relates that it was he in a former in Coronation who communicated to be Indestructible yoga Ancient illuminato vivat Who gave it to manu the Great legislator He intern instructed the father of India solar warrior Dynasty Intimated that pattern jolly wrote about the courier technique when he wrote Liberation can be achieved by that pranayama which is accomplished by destroying the course of inspiration and Inspiration A direct disciple of Surrey your test lab Series sailendra does Gupta has written that Career in tales several acts that have evidently been adapted from the Gita the yoga sutras Tetris Astros and from conceptions on the yoga The bhagavad Gita doesn\'t Create yoga by name The government has said that the application was related there According to paramahansa yogananda in his book god talks with arjuna the bhagavad Gita Krishna describes kriya yoga as Play the concentrated practice of kriya yoga pranayama Offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath The act of doing so is known as piranha into a pun And offering the exhaling breath into the inhaling Orpana interpreter The yoga neutralises these two life currents and their resulting mutations of Decay and grow The causative Agents of breath and heart action and concomitant body conscious By recharging the blood and cells with life energy that has been distilled from Bray And reinforced with the pure spiritualised life force in the spine and brain The courier Yogi stops bodily Decay there by quieting the breath and Heart by rendering Flying actions unnecessary The Yogi that eighteens conscious life force control The bihar school of yoga Teachers similar techniques of kriya yoga and maintains that the accounts of kriya yoga in the yoga suit And the bhagavad Gita aren\'t all related The yoga sutras of patanjali 2

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John St Paul and other disciples Yoga and also wrote that Babaji and cry Where in continual Communion answered Have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age Through lahiri mahasaya Kriya yoga soon cost of white net throughout India Yoghurt A disciple of Sri yukteswar giri Who was himself a disciple of lahiri mahasaya Then sauce to bring kriya yoga to the United States and Europe during the 20th century Lahiri mahasaya disciples included his two sons Doucoure lahiri and tentori lahiri Surrey looked s10e pension and that HR Swami premananda Suomi cabela\'s Cast of Ananda brahmacharya Pentre Nathaniel also known as Samuel Mahon And many of The final 4 years of yoga and Ender\'s life was spent mostly in seclusion He was surrounded by a few of his inner circle of disciple Axis desert ashram in 29 Palms California It was here that he plans to finish his writing And to finish revising books articles and lessons written previously over the years During this time period Jurgen and gave very few interviews and severely cut back on his public Pictures He told his close to site I can do much more now to reach others with my pen In the days leading up to his death Yogavenue that his end was near And he began hinting to his disciples that it was time for him to leave the world On March the 7th 1952 He attended a banquet for the visiting Indian ambassador to the US Fine engine Sam and his wife at the biltmore hotel in Los At the end of the dinner yogananda smoke of India and America their contributions to world peace and Hugh Progress and their future cooperation He expressed his hope for a United world that would serve to combine the Qualities of efficient America and spiritual India According to an eyewitness who was Diameter a direct disciple of yoga You\'ve read from his poem my India and concluded with the words Where Ganges would Himalayan caves and Men dream god I am hallowed My body That\'s all Asiata peace word He lifted his eyes to the catastor centre The odds of a chakra or spiritual And his body slumped to the floor Followers say that he entered matters samadhi The official cause of death was deemed heart failure Yoganest funeral service was attended by hundreds of friends and followers It was held at the SRS headquarters a top mount Washington in Los Rajarshi janak Ananda The new President of the self realisation Fellowship Performed a secret ritual releasing the body to God Jurgen and his mortal remains are Entombed at the Forest lawn memorial park in the great mausoleum Is remains on normally closed off to visitors but yogan and his tomb is accessible in Glendale Cornea Even after his passing yogen and a story leads to even more wondrous speculation Has reported in Time Magazine on August 4th 1950 to Los Angeles mortuary Say Harry tiro of the forest lawn memorial park in Glendale California where yoga his body was Received in Bond and in turn Stated in a notarized letter The absence of any visual signs of Decay in the dead body of paramahansa yogananda What was the most extraordinary case in our experience No physical disintegration was visible in his body even 20 days after death No indication of mould was visible on his skin Is no visible drying up took place in the body tissue This state of perfect preservation of a body Is so far as we know from mortuary animals An unparalleled No odour of Decay emanated from his body at any time Because of two statements in Rose letter Some have debated whether or not the term incorruptibility is First in Rose fourth paragraph he stayed The protection of the public health in bombing is desirable if a dead body is to be exposed for several days The public view Embalming of the body of paramahansa yogananda took place 24-hours after his demise Then in the 11th paragraph he stated that on the late morning of March the twenty We observed the very slight A barely noticeable change The appearance on the tip of the nose of Abra Spot about 1/4 inch in diameter This small thin spot indicated that the process of desiccation Might finally be star No visible mould appeared Even though he\'s no longer with us physically yoga as a spiritual existence cannot be denied And it is as just as prevalent today as it has ever been The YSL All your go-to satsanga society of India is a non-profit religious organisation Founded by Google more than 100 years ago in 1917 In countries outside the Indian subcontinent it is known as the self-realization Jurgen and Enders teachings are continued through this organisation The self realisation Fellowship And you\'re going to such thing as society of India Yogananda in Cell Founded the yogoda satsanga Society of India in 1917 And then expanded in 1920 to the United State Naming it the self realisation Fellowship In the year 1935 He legally Incorporated it in America two services toll for the preservation and Worldwide Distribution Yogananda indicated his intentions again in 1939 In his magazine in a culture for self realisation that he pub Through his organisation Paramahamsa Swami yogananda renounced all his ownership rights in the Self realisation When it was Incorporated as a non-profit religious organisation under the laws of California on March 29th 1935 At that time he turned over to the fellowship all of his It\'s two and income from the sale of his Writing magazines lectures classes property automobiles and all other Sr Or y s s Is based in Los Angeles and has grown to include over 500 temples and centres around the world It has members in over 175 countries Including the self-realization fellowship Lake shrine In India as well as in surrounding Paramahansa yogananda teachings Are spread by wire says which has over 100 centres ashrams and retreat Rajathi janakan and was picked by yogananda to become the president of Sr fys In his abs Diameter of religious leader and a direct Disciple was personally chosen and trained by yogaland Who was to lead the self realisation fellowship and yogoda satsanga Society of in From 1959 to 2010 On August 30th 2017 Brotherton and was elected as the next In a unanimous vote by the srf board of directors India released a commemorative stamp in honor of yoga nana back in the year 1977 On March the 7th 2017 the prime minister of India narendra modi really stand Commemorative postage stamp Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the yogoda satsanga Society of India Prime minister modi at vigyan bhawan in New Delhi appreciated yoga in the fridge extending the mess Of India\'s spirituality to foreign lands Moody said that even though you\'re gone and left the shores of India describe his May He has always remained connected with indeed Paramahansa yogananda has also deeply and Today\'s younger Generations which is surrounded by materialism and competition Achieving prosperity and success on an international level Amidst the fierce Many younger people credits their Do paramahansa chargers autobiography of a Yogi The book still illumines the right course for all to follow in life Is that very cool That light that shines brightly upon even the darkest of pathways which possess the ability to bring All to the points in our lives that we strive to reach The movements of perfection The movements of Enlightenment The moment of inner peace which only a great man Such as paramahansa yogananda can help us find These times of teaching Which make our lives worth living With so much turmoil in the world sometimes it is difficult to peer through the darkness and see the light surrounding us Thankfully there are scenes who through their teachings have enabled us to find the inner peace we also does partly seek Paramahansa Yogananda is one such guru who truly lived the life of a Saint Paramahansa Yogananda also known as Paramahansa Yogananda with the given name of Mukunda Lal Ghosh was born on January 5th, 1893, and died on March 7th, 1952 Yogananda was an Indian monk, a Yogi, and Gurú who introduced millions of people the world over to the teachings of meditation and kriya yoga through his organization the Self-Realization Fellowship Paramahansa Yogananda published his book, "Autobiography of a Yogi" back in 1946, and to this day it remains on HarperSanFrancisco list one of the 100 best spiritual books of the 20th century Few written works have offered as much inspiration and introspection as Yogananda´s book and as a result, it has been regularly reprinted and is known fondly as the book that changed the lives of millions "Autobiography of a Yogi" is easily the most popular among Yogananda's books According to Philip Goldberg Author of American Veda, the self realisation fellowship which represents Yogananda´s legacy is Justified in using the slogan the book that changed the lives of millions of people Is a sold 4 millions copies and counting During 2006 Self-Realisation Fellowship celebrated the 60th anniversary of ´Autobiography of a Yogi´, with a series of projects designed to promote its legacy Thousands of disciples still referred to as master "Autobiography of a Yogi" details Yogananda's spiritual search In addition to his numerous runnings with significant spiritual figures such as Theresa Neumann Anandamayi Ma, 35 00:02:41,024 --> 00:02:44,352 and Mahatma Gandhi The book is dedicated to the memory of Luther Burbank, ´an American Saint´, and a famous Indian scientist, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Nobel Laureate in Physics One consequential chapter of this book is the Law of Miracles, in which he gives a scientific explanation of the miraculous energies of the saints He write the word impossible is becoming less prominent in men's vocabulary The book has been an inspiration for many people including leading figures such as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, and Steve Jobs In the book´s Steve Jobs biography, the author writes that Jobs first read the autobiography as a teenager, He raided in India and later while preparing for a trip he downloaded it onto his iPad 2 and then reread it once a year ever since A proud member of a Hindu family, Yogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh India According to his younger brother Sananda, even at his youngest Mukunda's awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond ordinary Some have gone to even classified as extraordinary His father, Bhagwati Charan Ghosh, served as the Vice President of the Bengal-Nagpur railway and due to the constant traveling brought about by his job, he would move his family to several cities during Yogananda's childhood These cities included Lahore , Bareilly y Kolkata His father would buy him train passes for his many childhood sightseeing adventures too far away cities, and of course, pilgrimage spots During his childhood, he learnt about many of India's Hindu sages and saints Including Soham "Tiger" Swami, Gandha Baba, and Mahendranath Gupta Yogananda was hoping that he would find himself and an illuminated teacher to guide him along in his spiritual quest Upon graduating High School, Yogananda formerly left his home and joined Mahamandal Hermitage in Varanasi However, he soon became unhappy with its insistence on organizational work instead of meditation and God perception Like many others, Yogananda then began praying for guides It was in 1910 that his search for a teacher ended when at the age of 17 he met them who would become his guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri In his book Yogananda describes his first meeting with with Sir Yukteswa, as the beginning of a relationship did last for several lifetime `We entered a oneness of silence; word seems the the rankest superfluities Eloquence flowed in soundless chant from heart of master to disciple With an antenna of irrefragable insight I sensed that my Guru knew god And would lead me to him The obscuration of this life disappeared in a fragile dawn of prenatal memories Dramatic time present and future or it's cycling scenes This was not the first son to find me at these holy feet Yogananda would go on to train under Sir Yukteswar as his disciple for the next 10 years from 1910 through to 1920 at his hermitages in Serampore and Puri Later on, Sir Yukteswar informed Yogananda that an important task was at hand He had been sent to him by the great Guru of their linage, Mahavatar Babaji, for a special purpose: Worldwide dissemination of yoga fter the intermediate examination in art from the Scottish Church College in Calcutta in June 1915, Yogananda graduated with a degree similar to a currently bachelor or BA The college have 2 entities, one is the constituent College of The Senate of Serampore College, and the other as an affiliated College of the University of Calcutta This allowed Yogananda to spend some time at the Yukteswar ashram in Serampore

It was in 1915 that he took formal vowels into the monastic Swami order and became Swami Yonaganda Giri Shortly thereafter, in 1917 Yogananda founded a school for boys in Dihika, West Bengal, that combined modern educational techniques with yoga training and spiritual ideals After a year the school was relocated to Ranchi One of the school's first pupils was its youngest brother Bishnu Charan Ghosh who learned yoga asanas there and, in turn, taught asanas to Bikram Choudhury Yogananda´ school would later become known as the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, the Indian branch of Yogananda's U

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-based organization, Self-Realization Fellowship It was in 1920 that Yogananda travels to the United States Aboard a ship known as ´City of Sparta´ He arrived there assuming the role of India's delegate to an international Congress of religious liberals convening in Boston That same year he founded the SRF The Self-Realisation Fellowship to distributors worldwide teachings on India's ancient practices and philosophy of yoga and its tradition of meditation For the next few years he taught and lectured on the East Coast until in 1924 he decided to embark on a cross-continental speaking tour Thousands of curious followers and soon-to-be followers would file into his always crowded lectures It was within this time period that he garnered and number of celebrity followers, including Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, and Clara Clements who was the daughter of Mark Twain It wasn't long before he is established an international center for Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, California This center became the spiritual and administrative heart of this growing work Yogananda was the first-ever Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a major portion of his life in America He lived in the United States for over 3 decades from 1920 to 1952 and only left to embark on an extended trip abroad from 1935 to 1936 to visit its Guru in India Though he did make trips to other living Western scenes such as Therese Neumann, the Catholic stigmatist and places of spiritual importance while on routes There was a time however when this man of Peace was being watched closely for the wrong reasons Yogananda was added to a government watch and kept under surveillance by the FBI and the British The US and Great Britain were concerned about the growing independence movement in India A secret file was kept on him from the years 1926 until 1937 In 1935 Yogananda returns to India to visit his Guru Yukteswar Giri to help establish his his Yogoda Satsanga work there During this visit, he met with the great Mahatma Gandhi and introduced him to the liberating technique of Kriya yoga Because Gandhi express his interest to receive the kriya yoga of Lahiri Mahasaya While staying in India, Sri Yukteswar while gave Yogananda the monastic title of Paramahansa Paramahansa translates to supreme Swan, and it´s a title indicating the highest spiritual statement In the year 1936 while Yogananda was visiting Calcutta, Yukteswar attained Maha Samadhi a final soul liberation After returning to the United States, Yogananda continues to lecture right and open centers in Southern California He lived at the SRF Hermitage in Encinitas which was a surprise gift from his disciple Rajarsi Janakananda

It was in this hermitage that Yogananda wrote his famous Autobiography of a Yogi and other writings

Also at this time, he created and in during foundation for the spiritual and humanitarian work of Self-Realization Fellowship and the Pagoda Satsanga Society of India It was there that Yogananda wrote out his aims and ideals They are to disseminate among the nations knowledge the method for retaining direct personal experience of God to teach that the purpose of life is the evolution through self-effort of men's limited mortal consciousness into god conscious And to descend to establish self-realization fellowship temples for God Communion through around the world And to encourage the establishment of individual temples of God in the homes and in the hearts of men To reveal the complete harmony and basic oneness of original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ and the original yoga as taught by Bhagavan Krishna and to show that these principles of Truth are there Scientific Foundation of all true religion To point out the one divine highway to which all parts of true religious beliefs eventually lead That is the highway of daily scientific devotional meditation on God to free man from his triple suffering: physical diseases, mind in disharmony and spiritual ignorance to encourage plain living and high thinking and to spread a spirit of brotherhood among all people by teaching the eternal basis of their unity, kinship with God, to demonstrate the superiority of mind over body, and the soul over mind To overcome evil by good, sorry by joy, cruelty by kindness and ignorance by wisdom to unite science and religion, true realisation of the unity of the underlying principles, to advocate cultural and spiritual understanding between Eastern-West and the exchange of the finest distinctive features, to serve man kind as one's largest self In his published work the self-realization fellowship lessons Yogananda offers his in-depth instruction in the practice of the highest yoga science of God realization That ancient science is embodied within the meditation techniques, and the specific principles of kriya yoga Yogananda taught his students the need for the direct experience of truth as opposed to blind belief Yogananda said that the true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience Intuition is the souls power of knowing God to know what religion is really all about One must know God in line with the more traditional Hindu teaching Yogananda instructed his followers that the entire universe was God's cosmic Motion Picture We are all merely actors in The Divine play who possessed the ability to change their roles fire reincarnation Yogananda maintained that maintains deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one´s role rather than with a movie director The reason that Yogananda taught kriya yoga and other meditation practices what's the help people open themselves to the understanding that he caused self-realization Self-realization is the knowing in body, mind, and soul We are one with the omnipresence of God But we do not have to prove it, it comes to us but we are not nearly it at all times But God's omnipresence is our omnipresence we are just as much a part of him now, as we ever will be All we have to do is improve our knowing The science of kriya yoga is the Foundation of yoga and his teachings Kriya yoga is union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite The Sanskrit root of Kriya is kri, to do, to act, and react; Kriya yoga was passed down through yoga and Guru´s linages Mahavatar Babaji talked Kriya yoga two Lahiri Mahasaya who talked to his disciple Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda´s Gurú Yogananda give a general description of kriya yoga in his Autobiography The Kriya Yogi mentally directors life energy to revolve upwards and downwards around the 6 spinal centers medullary cervical dorsal, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal plexuses which correspond to the 12 Astra signs of the zodiac, the symbolic cosmic man one half-minute of revolution of energy around the center of the spinal cord of man Shuffle progress in his evolution that half minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual and fold Sri Mrinalini Mata the former president of the SRF and YSS once said Kriya yoga is so effective, so complete, because it brings God's love The universal power through which God draws all souls back to the union with him, into operation in the devotees life Yogananda written in Autobiography of a Yogi that the actual technique should be learned from an authorized Kriya Yogui known as a courier van of Self Realisation Fellowship Pogoda Satsanga Society of India Kriya yoga is recounted by its practitioners as the ancient yogi's system revived in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya Kriya yoga gained international recognition by Paramahansa Yogananda´s book Autobiography of a Yogi and through Yogananda introductions of the practice to the west from 1920 Simply put Kriya yoga is the yoga of action According to Yogananda The ancient yogic The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali contains a description of kriya yoga in the second chapter Liberation can be attained by that pranayama which is accomplished by destroying the course of inspiration And expiration The kriya yoga system is comprised of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra based on techniques intended to rapidly move towards spiritual development and enter a profound state of tranquility and God´s communion Yogananda attributed his description of kriya yoga to his lineages of guru Sri Yukteswar Giri, Lahiri Mahasaya and Mahavatar Babaji The latter is said to have introduced the concept as essentially identical to the Raja Yoga of Patanjali and the idea of yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita Kriya yoga as taught by Lahiri Mahasaya is for the most part exclusively learned fires Guru Disciple relationship and the initiation consist of a confidential ceremony As Yogananda describes kriya yoga the Kriya Yogi mentally directions life energy to revolve upward and downward around the six spinal centers such as the medullary cervical dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexus which corresponds to the 12 Astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic cosmic man one half minutes of Revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of men effect self evolution That half-minute of a career equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment The process of performing kriya yoga is said to lead to a purification of ones blood which in turn will free up the life for To withdraw its way into 1 spine Kriya yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the Yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissue, and the advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriya or a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies to dematerialize at will Swami Satyananda wrote Kriya Sadhana may be thought of as the sadhana of the practice of being inactive Yogananda wrote in God Talks with Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita that the science of kriya yoga was given to man the first man according to the Vedas According to Yogananda, Kriya yoga was very popular in Ancient India but was eventually lost because priestley secrecy and demands in differences Yogananda says that Krishna is referring to Kriya Yoga in the Bhagavad-Gita Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath And offering the ant going breath into the inhaling breath the Yogi neutralises both these breasts He bus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control Yogananda also said The Krishna was talking about Kriya Yoga when Krishna also relates that it was he, in a former incarnation, who communicated the indestructible yoga to an ancient to an ancient illuminato Vivasvat, who gave it to Manu, the great legislator He, in turn, instructed Ikshwaku, founder of India’s solar warrior dynasty Yogananda intimated that Pantajali wrote about the courier technique when he wrote `Liberation can be achieved by that pranayama which is accomplished by destroying the course of inspiration and expiration´ A direct disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri said Kriya in tales several acts that have evidently been adapted from the Gita the yoga sutras Tantra and from conceptions on the yoga The Bhagavad Gita doesn't teach Kriya Yoga by name, that Yogananda has said by application was related there According to Paramahansa Yogananda in his book God Talks with Arjuna, the Bhagavad Gita

Krishna describes kriya yoga as by the concentrated practice of kriya yoga pranayama, offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath the act of doing so is known as Prana into Apana and offering the exhaling breath into the inhaling prana into apana the yogi neutralises these two life currents and their resulting mutations of decay and grow, the causative agents of breath and heart action and concomitant body consciousness By recharging the blood and cells with life energy that has been distilled for breath and reinforced with the pure spiritualized life force in the spine and brain The Kriya Yogi stops bodily decay thereby quieting the breath and heart by rendering the purify actions unnecessary The Yogi doesn´t conscious life force control The Bihar School of yoga teachers similar techniques of kriya yoga and maintains that the accounts of kriya yoga in the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita are all related The yoga sutras of Patanjali 2

1 define three types of actions known as Kriya, the yoga of action known as kriyayoga is asceticism (tapas), recitation (svadhyana), and devotion, known as pranidhana to the lord known as Ishvara The yoga sutras of Patanjali are a compilation of the 196 Indian Sutras or aphorisms On the theory and practice of yoga the yoga sutras were organised before the Year 400ce by Patanjali, who integrate and categorised knowledge about Yoga that was learnt from older traditions The yoga sutras of Patanjali was the most translated ancient Indian text in the mediaeval era It has been translated into around 40 Indian languages as well as to non-Indian languages old Javanese and Arabic The text fell pretty much into obscurity for almost 700 years from the 12th to the 19th century It's been made a come back in the late 19th Century because of the efforts of Swami Vivekananda, the Graduate Philosophical Society and many others The yoga sutras of Patanjali gained prominence again as a come back classic in the 20th century Before the 20th century began, history shows that medieval Indian yoga science was dominated by the Vedas and other texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Vasistha, text attributed to Valmiki, but the real author is unknown, as well as literature on hatha yoga, tantric yoga, and Pashupati shavers some yoga, rather than the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Hindu Orthodox tradition maintains that the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, are one of the foundational texts of classical yoga philosophy But the usage and disuse of the yoga Sutra and the influence that it had on the latter systematization of yoga Have been questioned by scholars such as David Gordon White and reaffirmed by others Today's yoga Scholar such as Philip a Mars and Mallinson consider the study on the sutras to be Patanjali's own and the sutras to be his summary of more ancient yoga accounts The combined document is supposed to be a single word known as the Patanjali Yoga Sutras The yoga sutras are usually viewed as a compilation of multiple traditions of yoga According to Dr George Feuerstein specializing in the philosophy and practice of yoga, the yoga sutras are a mixture of two different traditions, namely eight limbs of Yoga, known as Ashtanga yoga, and action yoga or Kriya Yoga The description of the eight limbs is an interpolation into the text on Kriya According to Feuerstein, Kriya Yoga is contained in chapter 1 Chapter 2 verses 13 27 Chapter 3 except verse 54 and Chapter 4 The eight limb yoga is described in chapter 2 verses 28 through 55 and verse 3

3 and 54 According to celebrated kundalini yoga teacher Kihameela Kriya yoga is the active performance of yoga It is built on part of Niyamas or observances The second limb of Pantajali 8 limbs According to Miller, Kriya yoga is a threefold discipline involving ascetic practice the study and chanting of sacred hymns and syllables and dedication to god Miller also indicates that some commentators regarding regard the first five limbs together as kriya yoga but that Patanjali himself states kriya yoga to be a subset of the second limb

Lahiri Mahasaya getting initiated into kriya yoga by the Yogi Mahavatar Babaji in 1861 is told in Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda wrote that during that meeting Mahavatar Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya the Kriya Yoga that I am giving to the world through you in this 19th century is a revival of the same size Krishna gave millenniums ago to arjuna and was later known to Patanjali and Christ and to St

John and St Paul and other disciples Yogananda also wrote that Babaji and Christ where in continual communion, and together have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age Through Lahiri Mahasaya Kriya yoga soon cross the white net throughout India Yogananda a disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri who was himself a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya Then sauce to bring kriya yoga to the United States and Europe during the 20th century Lahiri Mahasaya disciples, included his two sons: Dukori Lahiri and Tinkori Lahiri, Sri Yukteswar Giri, Panchanan Bhattacharya, Swami Pranabananda Swami Keshavananda, Balananda Brahmachari And many of others The final 4 years of Yogananda's was spent mostly in seclusion He was surrounded by a few of his inner circle of disciples at his ashram in 29 Palms California It was here that he plans to finish his writing and to finish revising books, articles and lessons written previously over the years During this time period, Yogananda gave very few interviews and severely cut back on his public lectures He told his close disciples, I can do much more now to reach others with my pen In the days leading up to his death Yogananda knew that his end was near and he began hinting to his disciples that it was time for him to leave the world On March the 7th 1952 he attended a banquet for the visiting Indian ambassador to the US Mr

Binay Ranjam Sen and his wife at the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles At the end of the dinner, Yogananda spoke of India and America, their contributions to world peace and human progress, and their future cooperation He expressed his hope for a "United World" that would combine the best of "efficient America" and "spiritual India" According to an eyewitness who was Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda he read from his poem My India concluding with the words "Where Ganges woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream god I am hallowed my body touched that sod" he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center (the Ajna Chakra or "spiritual eye") and his body slumped to the floor His followers said that he entered mahasamadhi The official cause of death was deemed heart failure Yogananda´s funeral service was attended by hundreds of friends and followers It was held at the SRS headquarters atop Mt

Washington in Los Angeles

Rajarsi Janakananda, the new President of the Self-Realisation Fellowship, performed a secret ritual releasing the body to God Yogananda's remains are interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Great Mausoleum (normally closed off to visitors but Yogananda's tomb is accessible) in Glendale, California Even after his passing, Yogananda´s story leads to even more wondrous speculation As reported in Time on August 4, 1952, Los Angeles Mortuary, Harry T

Rowe, Director of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, where Yogananda's body was received, embalmed and interred wrote in a notarized letter that said: “The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramhansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience No physical disintegration was visible in Yogananda’s body even twenty days after death no indication of mold was visible on Yogananda’s skin and no visible desiccation (drying up) took place in the bodily tissues

This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one

No odor of decay emanated from Yogananda's body at any time" Because of two statements in Rowe´s letter some have questioned whether the term "incorruptibility" is appropriate First, in his fourth paragraph he wrote: "For protection of the public health, embalming is desirable if a dead body is to be exposed for several days to public view

Embalming of the body of Paramahansa Yogananda took place twenty-four hours after his demise

" Then In the eleventh paragraph he wrote: "On the late morning of March 26th, we observed a very slight, a barely noticeable, change the appearance on the tip of the nose of a brown spot, about one-fourth inch in diameter This small faint spot indicated that the process of desiccation might finally be starting No visible mold appeared however Even though he's no longer with us physically, Yogananda´s spiritual existence cannot be denied, and it is as just as prevalent today as it has ever been The YSS or Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, is a non-profit religious organisation founded by Yogananda more than 100 years ago in 1917 In countries outside the Indian subcontinent, it is known as the Self-Realization Fellowship

Yogananda´s teachings are continued through this organization, the Self-Realisation Fellowship, and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India Yogananda itself founded the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in 1917, and then expanded it in 1920 to the United State naming it the Self-Realisation Fellowship In the year 1935, he legally incorporated it in America to serve as his instrument for the preservation and worldwide dissemination of his teachings Yogananda indicated his intentions again in 1939 in his magazine Inner Culture for Self-Realization that he published through his organisation, Paramahamsa Swami Yogananda renounced all his ownership rights in the Self- Realisation Fellowship when it was incorporated as a non-profit religious organization under the laws of California on March 29th 1935 At that time, he turned over to the fellowship all of his rights to and incomes from the sale of his books, writing magazines, lectures, classes, properties, automobiles and all other posesions SRF is based in Los Angeles and has grown to include over 500 temples and centers around the world It has members in over 175 countries, including the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine In India as well as in surrounding countries, Paramahansa Yogananda´s teachings are spread which has over 100 centers, ashrams and retreat Rajarsi Jakananda was picked by Yogananda to become the president of SRF/YSS Daya Mata, a religious leader and a direct disciple of Yogananda who was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda, was head of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society from 1959 to 2010 On August 30th, 2017, Brother Chidananda was elected as the next president in a unanimous vote by the SRF board of directors India released a commemorative stamp in honor of Yogananda back in the year 1977 On March the 7th 2017 the prime minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, released a commemorative postage stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Yogoda Satsang Society of India Prime minister Modi at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, appreciated Yogananda for extending the message of India's spirituality to foreign lands Modi said that even though Yogananda left the shores of India describe to spread his message, he was always remained connected with India Paramahansa Yogananda has also deeply impressed to younger generations who is surrounded by materialism and competition Achieving prosperity and success on an international level, many younger people recognize the value of Autobiography of a Yogi The book still illumines the right course for all to follow in life Is that very course that light that shines brightly upon even the darkest of pathways which possess the ability to bring all to the points in our lives that we strive to reach The movements of perfection The movements of Enlightenment The moment of inner peace which only a great man such a teachar as Paramahansa Yogananda can help us find These times of teachings Which make our lives worth living