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Daya Mata, born Rachel Faye Wright (January 31, 1914 – November 30, 2010), was the third president and religious leader of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (SRF/YSS). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] SRF/YSS is the only spiritual organization founded by her guru , Paramahansa Yogananda , to disseminate his teachings.
Tara Mata, 1924, San Francisco. Tara Mata, born as Laurie Pratt, was a direct disciple for forty-five years and served Yogananda's SRF work until her death in 1971. She took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda and was given the name Tara which means a name for God in the aspect of Divine ...
Mrinalini Mata (born Merna Loy Brown, May 8, 1931 – August 3, 2017) was the fourth president of Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (SRF/YSS), the only church founded by Paramahansa Yogananda to care for and disseminate his teachings.
Daya Mata was the next head and president of Self Realization Fellowship/YSS from 1955 until 30 November 2010, the end of her life. [12] American yoga scholar Linda Johnsen wrote that Daya Mata was an example of a new wave of women who acquired leadership positions in Hindu spirituality. [13]
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: Every swami belongs to the ancient monastic order which was organized in its present form by Shankara.
When he died, he left an extensive body of work—public lectures and classes that had been recorded stenographically by Sri Daya Mata, along with three decades of his original writing. Yogananda had conveyed his editing wishes to his direct disciples, including Mrinalini Mata , who was one of the past presidents of SRF.
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[51] Daya Mata stated that "as he uttered these words, he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center, and his body slumped to the floor." [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 52 ] His funeral service, with hundreds attending, was held at the SRF headquarters atop Mt. Washington in Los Angeles.