Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji married Mata Kishan Kaur ( sometimes also referred to as Sulakhni ) the daughter of Sri Daya Ram of Anoopshahr ( Bulandshahr ) in Uttar Pradesh on Har Sudi 3, Samvat 1697.

Elvis developed a 12-year relationship with Sri Daya Mata, the woman who was then the president of the Self-Realization Fellowship, and would often call her for advice when he was troubled.

Sri Daya Mata

Paramahansa Yogananda wrote to Sri Daya Mata on her birthday in 1946:

" 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.

Some of Sri Daya Mata's family members became members of SRF.

Sri Daya Mata was one of the first women to lead a worldwide religious organization and monastic order.

* Sri Daya Mata in Memoriam

* Sri Daya Mata credentials by Sri Anandamayi Ma, an Indian Saint

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More recently, the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Shirdi Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Swami Muktananda, Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Shriram Sharma Acharya, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Mata Amritanandamayi has inspired millions to create new centers of spiritual development.

Sannyasini Gauri Ma ( 1857 – March 1, 1938 ), born Mridani, Saradeshwari Ashram in a Glance published by President Mataji Bandana Sri Saradeshwari Ashram also Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi A Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna published by Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Institute and Community, Ganges, MI USA, was a prominent Indian monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, companion of Sri Sarada Devi and founder of Kolkatta's Sri Saradeswari Ashram.

" Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri, A Monastic Disciple " of Sri Ramakrishna ".

" Saradeshwari in A Glance ", pg 23, by Mataji Bandana Puri Devi, President of Sri Saradeshwari Ashram and direct monastic disciple of Sannyasini Gauri Ma was published by Sri Sri Saradeshwari Ashram, 26 Gauri Mata Sarani, Kolkatta.

Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi: Founder of Sri Sri Saradeshwari Ashram, oldest women's convent in the direct lineage of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi in 1895, kolkatta, India.

" Saradeshwari in a Glance " by Mataji Bandana Puri Devi, President of Sri Saradeshwari Ashram in 1895, and direct Monastic Disciple of Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi, a Direct Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.

" Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi a Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna " by Swami Shivatatvananda a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and published by Nagpur Ashram and Mothers Trust mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Institute and Community, Ganges, MI USA.

Guru Amar Das was the eldest son of Sri Tej Bhan Bhalla, a farmer and trader, and Mata Lachmi. The Guru's father was a shopkeeper in the village of Basarke near Amritsar.

Through its sister organization, the Mata Amritanandamayi Center, houses have also been constructed in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board maintains the shrine.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )

Composer Dinesh Subasinghe became the first Sri Lankan to write a cappella pieces for SATB choirs.

That same year Lara amassed 688 runs in the three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three centuries, and one fifty – including the double century and a century in the first and second innings of the 3rd Test Match at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, equating to 42 % of the team's runs in that series.

The census will cover all Grama Niladhari ( GN ) divisions of the country. The first scientific census in Sri Lanka was conducted on 27 March 1871.

India won the cup by defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai on 2 April and became the first team to win the World Cup final on home soil.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

South Africa lost the first Test in Johannesburg but before the second test the two teams plus Pakistan and Sri Lanka competed for the Mandela Trophy, New Zealand failed to gain a win in the six match round robin stage while South Africa beat Pakistan in the final.

In addition, since the time of Rahula's writing considerable evidence has emerged indicating that Theravadins and Mahayanists interacted extensively in Sri Lanka throughout the first millennium CE, so any suggestion that there was no contact between the two would be incorrect.

* 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province.

The first militias formed in Sri Lanka were by Lankan Kings, who raised militia armies for their military campaigns both within and out side the island.

In Sri Lanka's first triumph on foreign soil, Muralitharan confused the crease-bound New Zealanders on a grassy pitch in Dunedin.

He was also responsible for first intervening and then sending Indian troops ( Indian Peace Keeping Force or IPKF ) for peace efforts in Sri Lanka in 1987, which soon ended in open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country.

Vijaya is the first of the approximately 189 native monarchs of Sri Lanka that the chronicles like Dipavamsa, Mahāvamsa, Chulavamsa, and Rājāvaliya describe ( see List of Sri Lankan monarchs ).

Sri Lanka experienced the first foreign invasion during the reign of Suratissa, who was defeated by two horse traders named Sena and Guttika from South India.

Sri Lanka was the first Asian country to have a female ruler ; Queen Anula who reigned during 47 – 42 BC.

Ancient Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to have established a dedicated hospital, in Mihintale in the 4th century.

Following a seventeen year long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the Chola out of Sri Lanka in 1070, reuniting the country for the first time in over a century.

It made Sri Lanka the first South Asian country to liberalise its economy.

The History of Sri Lanka begins around 30, 000 years ago when the island was first inhabited.

In 1971, the Senate was abolished, and the following year, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka, and became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first President of Sri Lanka.

This has resulted in a small but thriving community of nuns in Sri Lanka, who in turn ordained the first Theravada Buddhist nun in the history of Thailand, Ven.