About Paramhansa Yogananda?
Yogananda is the first great master of India for a long time lived in the West, and then moved to the United States to unite in marriage the Eastern spiritual culture with the west where more than one hundred thousand disciples began to Yoga. Paramahansa Yogananda
January 5, 1893 - 7 March 1952 was a renowned Indian guru or spiritual teacher who lived most of his life in the United States of America.
Mukunda Lal Ghosh (his full name) joined the monastic order of the Swami in 1914. He came to America around 1920 spread all over the western world the teachings of the ancient Indian philosophy, teaching and starting thousands of people to the science of Kriya Yoga. (He started talking about 100,000 in its 32 years of activity in the U.S.).
founder and first president of the Self-Realization Fellowship, Yogananda (literally "Ecstasy" [ananda] "Through the divine union" [yoga]) consciously died March 7, 1952 in Los Angeles at the end of a conference.
His teachings are contained in many of his books, Autobiography of a Yogi quote from one of the most popular books on Indian philosophy and appreciated in the West. Published for the first time in the United States in 1946, this book has been published worldwide and translated into many languages. The Italian version was in the early seventies.
originated from the teachings of Yogananda Ananda also the association, founded by one of his last disciples still living, Swami Kriyananda (Donald Walters), still present in various communities around the world. Other disciples have founded their own organizations. They include Swami Premananda (Self-Revelation church), Yogacharya Oliver Black (Song of the morning ranch) and Roy Eugene Davis
Yogananda is the first great master of India for a long time lived in the West, and then moved to the United States to unite in marriage the Eastern spiritual culture with the west where more than one hundred thousand disciples began to Yoga. Paramahansa Yogananda January 5, 1893 - 7 March 1952 was a renowned Indian guru or spiritual teacher who lived most of his life in the United States of America.
Mukunda Lal Ghosh (his full name) joined the monastic order of the Swami in 1914. He came to America around 1920 spread all over the western world the teachings of the ancient Indian philosophy, teaching and starting thousands of people to the science of Kriya Yoga. (He started talking about 100,000 in its 32 years of activity in the U.S.).
founder and first president of the Self-Realization Fellowship, Yogananda (literally "Ecstasy" [ananda] "Through the divine union" [yoga]) consciously died March 7, 1952 in Los Angeles at the end of a conference.
His teachings are contained in many of his books, Autobiography of a Yogi quote from one of the most popular books on Indian philosophy and appreciated in the West. Published for the first time in the United States in 1946, this book has been published worldwide and translated into many languages. The Italian version was in the early seventies.
originated from the teachings of Yogananda Ananda also the association, founded by one of his last disciples still living, Swami Kriyananda (Donald Walters), still present in various communities around the world. Other disciples have founded their own organizations. They include Swami Premananda (Self-Revelation church), Yogacharya Oliver Black (Song of the morning ranch) and Roy Eugene Davis
(Center for Spiritual Awareness).
(Biography taken from wikipedia)
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