January 05, 1893
– Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Date of
Death
March 07, 1952
– California, United States of America.
Identity
Indian Yogi and
Spiritual Guru
Date-wise Events / Works
1910: He met his guru,
Swami Yukteswar Giri, at the age of 17.
1917: He founded the Yogoda
Satsang Society of India.
1920: He went to the United
States as India's delegate to an International Congress of
Religious Liberals convened in Boston.
1920: He founded the
Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) to disseminate worldwide
his teachings on India's ancient practices and philosophy of
Yoga and its tradition of meditation.
1935: He returned to India
to visit Yukteswar and to help establish his Yogoda Satsanga
work in India.
1936: While Yogananda was
visiting Calcutta, his Guru Yukteswar died in the town of
Puri.
1999: His life story,
Autobiography of a Yogi, has since been translated into
twenty-eight languages. In 1999, it was designated one of
the 100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century.
More than 4 million copies of this book have been sold.
March 07, 2017: Indian
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi released a Special
Commemorative Postage Stamp to commemorate 100 years of
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India at a function in New Delhi;
Remembering last words of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Prime
Minister said:
his teachings are full of compassion towards
all.
Kriya Yoga practised by Yogananda revitalises subtle
currents of life energy in the body.
the path shown by Yogi ji was not about ‘Mukti’ but
‘Antaryatra’.
Special
Achievements / Events
Birth name: Mukunda Lal Ghosh.
He introduced many westerners to the teachings of
meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of
a Yogi.
He describes his first meeting with Giri as a rekindling
of a relationship that had lasted for many lifetimes.
He was the first Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a
major portion of his life in America.
During this visit, Guru Yukteswar gave Yogananda the
monastic title of Paramahansa, that means "supreme swan" and
is a title indicating the highest spiritual attainment.
His discourses in his lectures across US, taught of the
"unity of the original teachings of Jesus Christ and the
original Yoga taught by Bhagavan Krishna.
मोदी जी
का प्रेरणादायक संबोधन ! जरूर सुने ! 100 Years of Yogoda Satsang
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