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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.
In July 1915, several weeks after graduating from college, he took formal vows into the monastic Swami order; Sri Yukteswar allowed him to choose his own name: Swami Yogananda Giri. [3] In 1917, Yogananda founded a school for boys in Dihika, West Bengal that combined modern educational techniques with yoga training and spiritual ideals.
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.
Disciples Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, Swami Akhaynand Giri (Dadaji) India Hariharananda Giri ( Bengali : স্বামী হরিহরানন্দ গিরী ) (27 May 1907 – 3 December 2002), was an Indian yogi and guru who taught in India as well as in western countries .
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 ...
Satyananda Giri (Bengali: স্বামী সত্যানন্দ গিরি) (17 November 1896 – 2 August 1971), is the monastic name of Manamohan Mazumder, an Indian monk and a monastic disciple of Kriya Yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. He was a close childhood friend of, and brother-disciple to, Paramahansa Yogananda. In his ...
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At this time, he took further vows of renunciation and the monastic name Kriyananda. [1] According to SRF's magazine, he was given his final vows of sannyas into the swami order of Shankaracharya by Daya Mata, SRF's president from 1955 until her death in 2010. [17] Regarding this order, Yogananda stated in his Autobiography of a Yogi: