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Paramahansa Yogananda
HIS LIFE
Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh into a rich and devout Bengali family,
Paramahansa Yogananda was born on the 5th of January, 1893, in Gorakhpur,
India. Since childhood, he had already displayed and showed that
there is a depth of awareness of the spiritual and supernatural
was really extra-ordinary. On realizing this, he sought to find
a teacher that is in close touch with all things spiritual to aid
him in his quest.
At the age of 17, in the year of 1910, he met and became a disciple
of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri who is the great master of Yoga. With
this revered man, he spent the next ten years under his strict but
loving tutelage.
He graduated in 1915 from Calcutta University and took the vows
that bonded him to India's most venerable monastic order - Swami
Order. There, he was christened with the name; Yogananda which means
- bliss(ananda), through divine union (yoga).Hence, finding fulfillment
to his desire to give his everything to God.
HIS WORKS
| Year 1917 |
Founded "How to Live" school specially tailored
for boys where yoga training and spiritual lessons are held
in conjunction with normal lessons.
Mahatma Gandhi wrote: "This institution has deeply impressed
my mind." |
| 1920 |
Served as India's delegate to an international congress
of religious leaders meeting in Boston.
Found Self-Realization Fellowship |
| 1924 |
Held cross-continental speaking tour |
| 1925 |
Set up international headquarters in Los Angeles for Self-Realization
Fellowship. |
Yogananda entered "mahasamadhi" on the 7th of March
1952. A mahasamadhi is a God-illumined master's conscious exit from
the body at the time of physical death. His passing was as superb
as his life ministry. The Director of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park
(where he was buried) said: "No physical disintegration was
visible in his body even after twenty days....This state of perfect
preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals,
an unparalleled one....Yogananda's body was apparently in a phenomenal
state of immutability."
"Most people imitate others.
You should be original,
and whatever you do, do well. "
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash
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