Biography Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda was born in Gorakphur India January 5th 1893. Gorakphur is in the north of India and is associated with the great saint Gorakshanath who lived in the 10th – 12th Century. Yogananda was brought up in a devout loving Hindu family. At an early age Yogananda’s mother passed away and this pushed the young Mukunda (as he then was) into a deep grief. However this experience encouraged Yogananda to seek beyond the world and practise spiritual discipline.

George Harrison of the Beatles was a devotee of Yogananda, and Yogananda’s image appears on the cover of the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band . Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Swami Sri Yukteswar, other gurus in Yogananda’s lineage, are also on the album cover.

Harrison liked to give away copies of his “Autobiography of a Yogi.”

Harrison’s interest in India began during production of the Beatles’ second movie, Help! (1965), with its slapstick Hindu subplot. He was intrigued by the sitar used in an Indian restaurant scene filmed in London.

An online 16 page guidebook in PDF format to the places in and around Boston associated with Yoganandaji, Copyright© 2007 Boston Meditation Group.

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These are the public domain photos from Paramhansa Yogananda’s ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’.

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A website devoted to the preservation of Kriya Yoga as taught by Yogiraj Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasay and his Eminent Disciples.

If you wish to link to Yoga Niketan (Kriya Library) please link to the opening page at www.yoganiketan.net

What you will find – the following materials can be read for free online:

• Paramhansa Swami Yogananda: Life Portrait and Reminiscences
• Spiritual Commentary on Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Yogiraj Sri Sri Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahasaya
• Patanjali Yoga Sutras – Spiritual Commentary by Yogiraj Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Yogananda said, “When I am gone, read my Whispers from Eternity. Eternally though it, I will talk to you…”

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* Foreword * Whispers from Eternity * Key to Demands * Hints to the Reader * Watching the Cosmic Motion Picture of Life

Prayer Demands by Subject

* Sacred Demands to the Infinite * Prayers for Universality * Miscellaneous Demands * Prayers of Devotion * Prayer-Demands for Children

Poems, Chants, and More

* Chants * Poems * Our Dream World

One of the most unique autobiographies ever written, from the perspective of a great yogi.

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