Yogananda – simple living, higher thinking

“To liberate man from his threefold suffering: physical disease, mental inharmonies, and spiritual ignorance.” – Wikipedia

Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in 1893 in Gorackpur, India. As a child he sought out wise sages & gurus in an attempt to find a spiritual teacher who could take him forward on his spiritual journey & finally found his guru, Swami Yukteswar Giri, at the age of 17. At 22 he finished the equivalent to an arts degree & entered an Ashram to further his spiritual quest. Shortly after he established a school for boys, which in addition to mainstream education, included learning yoga & spiritual practices.

In 1920 under the guidance of his guru, he moved to the US, became a renowned public speaker & formed the ‘Self Realization Fellowship’, an organization to broaden & continue his teachings. Yogananda was the first Hindu Yoga teacher to spend extended time outside his home country. He settled in LA, California & spend over 30 years in America.

Yogananda’s style of yoga, ‘Kriya Yoga’, was the 3^rd generation teaching of Mahavatar Babaji and focused on the combination of physical postures & meditation practices to stimulate life force energy for natural spiritual enfoldment. One of his aims was to unite East & West, science & religion, to raise the individual’s consciousness to a state of Oneness above all forms of religious belief.

In 1946 Yogananda published his life story “Autobiography of a Yogi” which is now circulated internationally & has sold over 4 million copies. Yogananda passed consciously from his body in 1952.

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