Other authors such as Swami Sri Yukteswar, and Paramhansa Yogananda believe that it is now Dvapara Yuga.

The new movements look up to Swami Vivekananda ; Rabindranath Tagore ; Ramana Maharshi ; Shri Aurobindo ( for his Integral Yoga ); Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( founder of the modern Hare Krishna movement ); Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha ; Narayana Guru, Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, Paramhansa Yogananda ; Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

Mr. James Jesse Lynn, disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda was also referred to by the title of the Rajarshi, as Rajarsi Janakananda.

Paramhansa Yogananda was an early proponent of kirtan in the west, chanting Guru Nanak Dev Ji's Hey Hari Sundara (" Oh God Beautiful ") with 3, 000 people at Carnegie Hall in 1923.

In his book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda provides details about the astral planes learned from his resurrected guru.

In his book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda provides details about the astral planes learned from his resurrected guru.

Swami Kriyananda Giri, born James Donald Walters ( born May 19, 1926 ), is a direct disciple of the yogi Paramhansa Yogananda ( 1893 – 1952 ) and founder of Ananda, a worldwide movement of spiritual intentional communities based on Yogānanda's World Brotherhood Colonies ideal.

His themes were reiterated in books by Sister Tara Mata, Paramhansa Yogananda and Walter Cruttenden, to growing public interest over the last century.

Those rhapsodic songs describing direct vision of God ..." Paramhansa Yogananda also was an admirer of Ramprasad and his devotional songs, frequently singing them.

Besides these traditional denominations, movements of Hindu revivalism look to founders such as Swami Vivekananda, Swami Dayananda ( Arya Samaj ), Rabindranath Tagore, Ramana Maharshi, Aurobindo, Shriram Sharma Acharya, Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha, Narayana Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, Pandurang Shastri Athavale ( Swadhyay Movement ) and others.

* August 16 – Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure ( b. 1836 )

The temple is widely recognized as one of the most important places of worship in Hindu religion and most of the leading Hindu saints, including Adi Sankaracharya, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Goswami Tulsidas, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Gurunanak have visited this site.

The Face of Silence ( 1926 ) is about the nineteenth century saint and visionary Ramakrishna Paramhansa and is said to have deeply influenced Romain Rolland ( See Swami Tathagatananda, ' Dhan Gopal Mukerji and The Face of Silence ', Prabuddha Bharati, January and February 2006 ( two part article ).

Yogananda also stated that Krishna was referring to Kriya Yoga when " Lord Krishna … relates that it was he, in a former incarnation, who communicated the indestructible yoga to an ancient illuminato, Vivasvat, who gave it to Manu, the great legislator.

Later, Yogananda said about him that " I would roll on the ground where he ’ d walked, so great was my love for him.

In light of this, the Indian guru Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, scribed an extensive commentary on the Gospels published in the two-volume set The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.

* January 5 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru ( d. 1952 )

Paramahansa Yogananda an Indian yogi and guru introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

A poem, entitled " To The Aurora Borealis ", written by world-renowned Indian yogi and guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, while visiting Forest Lake in 1927, appears in the book " Songs of the Soul ".

Paramahansa Yogananda ( January 5, 1893March 7, 1952 ), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

* NP Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian spiritual guru and author

Galli-Curci was a student of the Indian meditation and yoga teacher Paramahansa Yogananda.

Weaver had been a vegetarian since 1958 and student of yoga and meditation since the 1960s and a devoted follower of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who established the Self Realization Fellowship in the US.

After this pioneer work, some representatives from known lineages of Indian and Asian spiritual and philosophical tradition like Vivekananda, Anagarika Dharmapala, Paramahansa Yogananda, and others, started coming to the West.

Ravi Shankar, Indian classical musician, " met Paramahansa Yogananda on two occasions in the 1930s as a boy.

On March 7, 1952, the well-known yogi and author Paramahansa Yogananda, while giving a speech in honor of the Indian ambassador Binay Ranjan Sen, dropped dead of a heart attack at the Biltmore Hotel.

For the west, Yogananda translated the Indian name as Self-Realization Fellowship ( SRF ) which is located in Los Angeles, California, USA.

In 1917, Yogananda founded a school for boys in Dihika, West Bengal that combined modern educational techniques with yoga training and spiritual ideals.

At the conclusion of the banquet Yogananda spoke of India and America, their contributions to world peace and human progress, and their future cooperation, expressing his hope for a " United World " that would combine the best qualities of " efficient America " and " spiritual India.

Lahiri Mahasaya prophesied that the infant Yogananda would become a yogi, and " As a spiritual engine, he

The Self-Realization Fellowship is a worldwide spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 and based in Mount Washington in Los Angeles, California.

" Yogananda also wrote that Babaji and Christ were in continual communion and together, " have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age.

The Autobiography of a Yogi takes the reader on a journey into the spiritual adventures of Paramahansa Yogananda.

As president and sanghamata ( spiritual head ) since 1955 of SRF & YSS, the only two worldwide organizations founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, she has devoted herself with singleminded devotion to fulfilling these words of her Guru.

" Through her many years of discipleship as one of the closest personal assistants to Paramahansa Yogananda, and with the caring discipline of the Guru, Sri Daya Mata came to embody the spiritual depth and universal love required of the one who was chosen by Paramahansaji to lead his spiritual and humanitarian work.

In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda dedicated an entire chapter to describing his friendship with Mahendranath, which was along spiritual rather than academic lines.

Some of his notable disciples included Panchanon Bhattacharya, Yukteswar Giri, Swami Pranabananda, Swami Keshabananda, Bhupendranath Sanyal, and the parents of Paramahansa Yogananda.

Presented as a double album with one track on each side, its concept is based on singer Jon Anderson's interpretation of four Shastric scriptures from a footnote in Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

Brahmananda, Shivananda and Yogananda were also married at one time.

She is " one of the close disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda personally chosen and trained by him to help guide his society after his passing ," and had held the position of vice-president since 1966.

Sri Daya Mata first met Paramahansa Yogananda in 1931 at the age of 17 years old, while seeking one thing: perfect, unconditional love.

She became one of Paramahansa Yogananda ’ s first monastic disciples after entering his Self-Realization Fellowship ashram atop Mt.