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Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) is a worldwide religious organization founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who authored Autobiography of a Yogi. Before moving to the United States, Yogananda began his spiritual work in India in 1917 and named the organization Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS).
[1] [2] It was originally published in 1995 in Los Angeles by the Self Realization Fellowship, and later published in other countries and languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book is significant in that unlike other explications of the Bhagavad Gita , which focused on karma yoga , jnana yoga , and bhakti yoga in relation to the Gita, Yogananda's work ...
Minott W. Lewis, a Boston dentist, and his wife Mildred were among Yogananda's first disciples in America; they met him shortly after his arrival in America in 1920 and became lifelong disciples. Minot served for many years as the vice-president of and a minister of Self-Realization Fellowship, Yogananda's worldwide mission.
Tales of the miraculous have always encircled the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre ...
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship, 2004, ISBN 978-0-87612-079-8, paperback and hardback, available in fifty languages [3] The Divine Romance , Paramahansa Yogananda Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life, Volume II, Self-Realization Fellowship, 2004, ISBN 978-0-87612-241-9 , paperback ...
Rajarsi Janakananda, born James Jesse Lynn (May 5, 1892 – February 20, 1955), was a wealthy American businessman who became the closest disciple of the yogi Paramahansa Yogananda after they met in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1932.
In October 1953, Self-Realization Fellowship, Yogananda's organization, acquired the rights to the book and have been printing the book ever since, including translating it into over fifty languages. [ 24 ] [ 42 ] According to Project Gutenberg , the first edition of Autobiography of a Yogi is in the public domain in the USA.
Sunburst, also known as Brotherhood of the Sun, [1] is an intentional community founded in 1969 by Norman Paulsen in Santa Barbara, California. [1] Sunburst began in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of the 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship.