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He served Yogananda and his organization Self-Realization Fellowship until his death. There are five recorded talks by Oliver Black. [29] [30] Rajarsi Janakananda, 1932, Kansas. Rajarsi Janakananda, born James Jesse Lynn on 5 May 1892, was the leading disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and a prominent businessman in the Kansas City, Missouri area.
Swami Yogananda (Bengali: স্বামী যোগানন্দ, romanized: Sbāmī Yōgānanda) was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, the 19th-century mystic. He took his formal initiation from Sarada Devi , the "holy mother" of Ramakrishna paramhansa Order and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna.
Lahiri Mahasaya was born to Bengali Brahmin parents Gourmohan and Muktakeshi Lahiri on 30 September 1828, in village Ghurni, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal, India, according to Yogananda. [4] In 1832, a flood killed his mother and destroyed their home, after which his family moved to Varanasi , where he received education in philosophy, Sanskrit, and ...
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha (born 13 May 1933) Swami Chidbhavananda (11 March 1898 – 16 November 1985) Swami Janakananda (born 13 June 1939) Swami Keshwanand Satyarthi (born 5 September 1943) (Paramhans Satyarthi Mission, Advait Mat) Swami Nithyananda (born 1 January 1978 or 13 March 1977) Swami Prakashanand Saraswati (born 15 January 1929 – )
Swami Brahmananda (1863–1922), whose original name was Rakhal Chandra Ghosh, was son of a zemindar in the Basirhat area. He was born on 21 January 1863 at Sikra Kulingram, 36 miles to the northwest of Kolkata. [1] Rakhal was devoted to God and used to practice meditation even in boyhood. At the age of 12 he was brought to Kolkata for his ...
Yogananda expressed this intention again in 1939 in his magazine Inner Culture for Self-Realization that he published through his organization: Paramahansa Swami Yogananda renounced all his ownership rights in the Self-Realization Fellowship when it was incorporated as a nonprofit religious organization under the laws of California, March 29, 1935.
[21] [22] Yogananda wrote that at that meeting, Mahavatar Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, "The Kriya Yoga that I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century, is a revival of the same science that Krishna gave millenniums ago to Arjuna; and was later known to Patanjali, and Christ, and to St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples ...
James Dudley, in his book Library Journal: Autobiography of a Yogi, wrote: "Yogananda's masterly storytelling epitomizes the Indian oral tradition with its wit, charm, and compassionate wisdom." [39] Phil Goldberg, in his book The Life of Yogananda, states that Autobiography of a Yogi is "the book that changed the lives of millions". [40]