Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

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.

Yogananda at age sixYogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a devout family.

Yogananda was the first Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a major portion of his life in America.

In 1936, while Yogananda was visiting Calcutta, Yukteswar died in the town of Puri.

" According to an eyewitness-Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955 – 2010, as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem My India, concluding with the words " Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God — I am hallowed ; my body touched that sod ".< ref >

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

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

According to Paramahansa Yogananda in his work the Autobiography of a Yogi, it was on the Kumbha Mela in January 1894 at Allahabad that his Guru Sri Yukteswar met Mahavatar Babaji for the first time.

Yogananda wrote that Lahiri was chosen by Mahavatar Babaji to reintroduce the lost practice of Kriya Yoga to the world.

It was at the SRF Encinitas hermitage that Yogananda wrote his famous Autobiography of a Yogi.

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.

According to Yogananda, Kriya Yoga was well-known in ancient India, but was eventually lost, due to " priestly secrecy and man ’ s indifference ".

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.

" Yogananda says that Patanjali was referring to Kriya Yoga when he wrote " Kriya Yoga consists of body discipline, mental control, and meditating on Aum.

Yogananda wrote that at that meeting, Mahavatar Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, " The Kriya Yoga that I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century, is a revival of the same science that Krishna gave millenniums ago to Arjuna ; and was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

Yogananda, a disciple of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri who was himself a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, then brought Kriya Yoga to the United States and Europe during the 20th century.

It was founded and dedicated by Paramahansa Yogananda, on August 20, 1950 and is owned by the Self-Realization Fellowship.

Paramahansa Yogananda began the long process of finding a publisher for his Autobiography and in December 1946 the Autobiography of a Yogi was a published book at last.

Daya Mata ( Sanskrit for Mother of Compassion ), born Rachel Faye Wright, ( January 31, 1914November 30, 2010 ) was the president and sanghamata ( mother of the society ) of the only two organizations that Paramahansa Yogananda created to disseminate his teachings, Self-Realization Fellowship ( SRF ) of Los Angeles, California, and the Yogoda Satsanga ( YSS ) Society of India for over 55 years.

" 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.

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.

* 7 March-Paramahansa Yogananda, yogi and guru ( born 1893 ).

Yukteswar and his disciple, Paramahansa YoganandaHe had only a few long-term disciples, but in 1910, the young Mukunda Lal Ghosh would become Yukteswar ’ s most well known disciple, eventually spreading the teachings of Kriya Yoga throughout the world as Paramahansa Yogananda.

At five, he began studying with Bishnu Ghosh ( Paramahansa Yogananda ’ s brother ) and won the National India Yoga Championship for three consecutive years in his teens.

While in India, Yukteswar gave Yogananda the monastic title of Paramahansa.

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.

SRF also has a sister organization in India called Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, founded by Yogananda in 1917, and headquartered in Dakshineswar ( near Calcutta ).

There is a gift shop featuring arts and crafts from India which is adjacent to a museum focusing on Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Lake Shrine.

Her brother, Richard Wright, served as Yogananda's personal secretary for many years, accompanying Yogananda on his trip to India in June 9, 1935 and appearing in his Autobiography of a Yogi.

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India ( YSS ) is a non-profit religious organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1917.

Yogananda has created four ashrams in India: Ranchi, Kolkata, Noida, Dwarahat.

Paramahansa Yogananda actually started a small ashram in Dihika, West Bengal ( near Asansol ), in 1917 prior to moving to Ranchi, where he established and developed his first major ashram in India.

The original site where Paramahansa Yogananda started his fledgling Dihika ashram, has been purchased in 1992 by Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and is being maintained by them as a heritage site of the organization.

In 1915, he took formal vows into the monastic Swami Order and became ' Swami Yogananda Giri '.

Yogananda converted the windmill into a chapel were meditations and services were held.

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

Yogananda reports that, according to the disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya, nobody knows Babaji ’ s age, family, place of birth, true name, or other details “ dear to the annalist ’ s heart .”

It was also formerly Paramahansa Yogananda's family home — a site especially poignant to Yogananda because it was the site of his mother's death.

" Wine of the Mystic " by Paramahansa Yogananda, is an illustrated interpretation of the FitzGerald translation.

Yogananda makes an argument for the mystical basis of Khayyam's Rubaiyat.

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.

Thus Hinduism's consideration of itself as an Eastern extension of the Christian Gospel, however, is neither unique to Yogananda or his disciple, Swami Kriyananda.

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

* May 5 – Rajarsi Janakananda, A leading disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda.

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.

# Sri Yogananda Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy, Mattapalli ( at the confluence of Krishna and Musi rivers ), about 15 km from Huzurnagar taluq, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh ( Bus available from Miryalaguda / Kodada.

Narasimha Idol here is in Yogananda Narasimha posture and is from the 8th century as per historians.

Later on Yukteswar informed Yogananda that he had been sent to him by Mahavatar Babaji for a special purpose.

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

In 1920, Yogananda went to the United States aboard the ship City of Sparta, as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals convening in Boston.

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.

* Paramahansa Yogananda, " India's Great Scientist, J. C. Bose ," in ' Autobiography of a Yogi ', Los Angeles, CA: Self-Realization Fellowship.