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Joan Ruvinsky

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Yogananda at age sixYogananda was born in, India, to a devout family. According to his younger brother, Sananda, from his earliest years young Mukunda's awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond the ordinary. In his youth he sought out many of India's sages and saints, hoping to find an illuminated teacher to guide him in his spiritual quest.Yogananda's seeking after various saints mostly ended when he met his, in 1910, at the age of 17. He describes his first meeting with Yukteswar as a rekindling of a relationship that had lasted for many lifetimes:We entered a oneness of silence; words seemed the rankest superfluities. Eloquence flowed in soundless chant from heart of master to disciple. With an antenna of irrefragable insight I sensed that my guru knew God, and would lead me to Him. The obscuration of this life disappeared in a fragile dawn of prenatal memories.

Dramatic time! Past, present, and future are its cycling scenes. This was not the first sun to find me at these holy feet!Later on Yukteswar informed Yogananda that he had been sent to him by for a special purpose.After passing his Intermediate Examination in Arts from the, in June 1915, he graduated with a degree similar to a current day Bachelor of Arts or B.A. (which at the time was referred to as an A.B.), from, the college having two entities, one as a constituent college of the and the other as an affiliated college of the. This allowed him to spend time at Yukteswar's in Serampore. In 1915, he took formal vows into the order and became Swami Yogananda Giri. In 1917, Yogananda founded a school for boys in, that combined modern educational techniques with training and spiritual ideals.

A year later, the school relocated to. This school would later become the, the Indian branch of Yogananda's American organization,.Move to America 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.

That same year he founded the (SRF) to disseminate worldwide his teachings on India's ancient practices and philosophy of and its tradition of meditation. For the next several years, he lectured and taught on the East Coast and in 1924 embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Thousands came to his lectures. During this time he attracted a number of celebrity followers, including soprano, tenor and, the daughter of.

The following year, he established an international center for Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, California, which became the spiritual and administrative heart of his growing work. Yogananda was the first Hindu teacher of yoga to spend a major portion of his life in America. He lived there from 1920—1952, interrupted by an extended trip abroad in 1935–1936 which was mainly to visit his guru in India though he undertook visits to other living western saints like, the Catholic of, and places of spiritual significance en route. Visit to India, 1935–1936 In 1935, he returned to India to visit Yukteswar and to help establish his work in India. During this visit, as told in his autobiography, he met with, and initiated him into the liberating technique of Kriya Yoga as Gandhi expressed his interest to receive the Kriya Yoga of Lahiri Mahasaya;; renowned physicist; and several disciples of Yukteswar's guru.

While in India, Yukteswar gave Yogananda the monastic title of. Paramahansa means 'supreme swan' and is a title indicating the highest spiritual attainment. In 1936, while Yogananda was visiting Calcutta, Yukteswar attained mahasamadhi in the town of.Return to America, 1936 After returning to America, Yogananda continued to lecture, write, and establish churches in southern California. He took up residence at the SRF hermitage in which was a surprise gift from his disciple. It was while at this hermitage that Yogananda wrote his famous and other writings.

Also at this time he created an 'enduring foundation for the spiritual and humanitarian work of Self‑Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.' The last four years of his life were spent primarily in seclusion with some of his inner circle of disciples at his desert in to finish his writings and to finish revising books, articles and lessons written previously over the years. During this period he gave few interviews and public lectures. He told his close disciples, 'I can do much more now to reach others with my pen.'

Death In the days leading up to his death, Yogananda began hinting that it was time for him to leave the world.On 7 March 1952, he attended a dinner for the visiting Indian Ambassador to the US, and his wife at the in Los Angeles. 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.' According to an eyewitness –, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of the 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.' 'As he uttered these words, he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center (the Ajna ), and his body slumped to the floor.' Followers say that he entered.His funeral service, with hundreds attending, was held at the SRF headquarters atop Mt.

Washington in Los Angeles., the new president of the Self-Realization Fellowship, 'performed a sacred ritual releasing the body to God.' Yogananda's remains are interred at the in the Great Mausoleum (normally closed off to visitors but Yogananda's tomb is accessible) in.

Teachings. Paramahansa Yogananda giving a class in Washington, D.C.In 1917 Paramahansa Yogananda 'began his life's work with the founding of a 'how-to-live' school for boys, where modern educational methods were combined with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals.' In 1920 'he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals convening in Boston. His address to the Congress, on 'The Science of Religion,' was enthusiastically received.' For the next several years he lectured and taught across the United States.

His discourses taught of the 'unity of 'the original teachings of Jesus Christ and the original Yoga taught by Bhagavan Krishna.' Main article:The 'science' of Kriya Yoga is the foundation of Yogananda's teachings. Kriya Yoga is 'union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite (kriya). The Sanskrit root of kriya is kri, to do, to act and react.' Kriya Yoga was passed down through Yogananda's guru lineage – taught Kriya Yoga to, who taught it to his disciple, Yogananda's Guru.Yogananda gave a general description of Kriya Yoga in his Autobiography:The Kriya Yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man.

One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.Sri Mrinalini Mata, current president of SRF/YSS, said, ' Kriya Yoga is so effective, so complete, because it brings God's love – the universal power through which God draws all souls back to reunion with Him – into operation in the devotee's life.' Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi that the 'actual technique should be learned from an authorized Kriyaban (Kriya Yogi) of Self-Realization Fellowship (Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.)' Autobiography of a Yogi. Cover of first edition ofIn 1946, Yogananda published his life story, Autobiography of a Yogi. It has since been translated into 45 languages.

In 1999, it was designated one of the '100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century' by a panel of spiritual authors convened by and publishers. Autobiography of a Yogi is the most popular among Yogananda's books. According to Philip Goldberg, who wrote American Veda, 'the Self-Realization Fellowship which represents Yogananda's Legacy, is justified in using the slogan, 'The Book that Changed the Lives of Millions.' It has sold more than four million copies and counting'. In 2006, the publisher, Self-Realization Fellowship, honored the 60th anniversary of Autobiography of a Yogi 'with a series of projects designed to promote the legacy of the man thousands of disciples still refer to as 'master'.'

Autobiography of a Yogi describes Yogananda's spiritual search for enlightenment, in addition to encounters with notable spiritual figures such as, Nobel laureate in literature, noted plant scientist (the book is 'Dedicated to the Memory of Luther Burbank, An American Saint'), famous Indian scientist Sir and Nobel laureate in physics Sir. One notable chapter of this book is 'The Law of Miracles', where he gives scientific explanations for seemingly miraculous feats.

He writes: 'the word 'impossible' is becoming less prominent in man's vocabulary.' The Autobiography has been an inspiration for many people including (1955–2011), co-founder, former chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. In the book the author writes that in preparation for a trip, Mr. Jobs downloaded onto his iPad2, the Autobiography of a Yogi, 'the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager, then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.'

Claims of bodily incorruptibility As reported in on August 4, 1952, Harry T. Rowe, Los Angeles Mortuary Director of the in, where Yogananda's body was received, and interred, wrote in a notarized letterThe absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramahansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience. No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death. No indication of mold was visible on his skin, and no visible drying up took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one. No odor of decay emanated from his body at any time.Because of two statements in Rowe's letter, some have questioned whether the term 'incorruptibility' is appropriate. First, in his fourth paragraph he wrote: 'For protection of the public health, embalming is desirable if a dead body is to be exposed for several days to public view.

Embalming of the body of Paramhansa Yogananda took place twenty-four hours after his demise.' In the eleventh paragraph he wrote: 'On the late morning of March 26th, we observed a very slight, a barely noticeable, change - the appearance on the tip of the nose of a brown spot, about one-fourth inch in diameter. This small faint spot indicated that the process of desiccation (drying up) might finally be starting. No visible mold appeared however.' As Forest Lawn’s Mortuary Director, Rowe, was professionally well qualified to distinguish the exceptional from the ordinary. He continued in paragraphs fourteen and fifteen: 'The physical appearance of Paramhansa Yogananda on March 27th just before the bronze cover for the casket was put into position, was the same as it was on March 7th.

He looked on March 27th as fresh and unravaged by decay as he had looked on the night of his death. On March 27th there was no reason to say that his body had suffered any physical disintegration at all. For these reason we state again that the case of Paramhansa Yogananda is unique in our experience. On May 11, 1952, during a telephone conversation between an officer of Forest Lawn and an officer of Self-Realization Fellowship, the amazing story was brought out for the first time.' Self-Realization Fellowship published Rowe’s four-page notarized letter in its entirety in the May-June 1952 issue of its magazine Self-Realization. From 1958 to the present it has been included in that organization's booklet Paramahansa Yogananda: In MemoriamThe location of Yogananda's crypt is in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Golden Slumber, Mausoleum Crypt 13857,.

Legacy Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India Paramahansa Yogananda's dissemination of his teachings is continued through the organization he founded – the (SRF)/ (YSS). Yogananda founded Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in 1917 and then expanded it in 1920 to the United States naming it the Self-Realization Fellowship. In 1935 he legally incorporated it in the U.S. To serve as his instrument for the preservation and worldwide dissemination of his teachings. Yogananda expressed this intention again in 1939 in his magazine Inner Culture for Self-Realization that he published through his organization:Paramahansa Swami Yogananda renounced all his ownership rights in the Self-Realization Fellowship when it was incorporated as a nonprofit religious organization under the laws of California, March 29, 1935. At that time he turned over to the Fellowship all of his rights to and income from sale of his books, writings, magazine, lectures, classes, property, automobiles and all other possessions.SRF/YSS is headquartered in Los Angeles and has grown to include more than 500 temples and centers around the world and has members in over 175 countries including the. In India and surrounding countries, Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings are disseminated by YSS which has more than 100 centers, retreats, and ashrams.

Was chosen by Yogananda to become the President of SRF/YSS when he was gone., a religious leader and a direct disciple of Yogananda who was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda, was head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India from 1955–2010. According to Linda Johnsen, the new wave today is women, for major Indian gurus have passed on their spiritual mantle to women including Yogananda to the American born Daya Mata and then to Mrinalini Mata.

Mrinalini Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, is the president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India as of 2014. She too was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda to help guide the dissemination of his teachings after his death. She is assisted by the SRF Board of Directors, which includes other direct disciples of Yogananda trained by him. India's Commemorative Stamp 1977 India released a commemorative stamp in honor of Paramahansa Yogannada in 1977. 'Department of Post issued a commemorative postage stamp on the occasion of the twenty‑fifth anniversary of Yogananda's passing in honor of his far‑reaching contributions to the spiritual upliftment of humanity. “The ideal of love for God and service to humanity found full expression in the life of Paramahansa Yogananda.

Though the major part of his life was spent outside India, still he takes his place among our great saints. His work continues to grow and shine ever more brightly, drawing people everywhere on the path of the pilgrimage of the Spirit.” India's Commemorative Stamp - 100th Anniversary of YSS 2017 On March 7, 2017, the Prime Minister of India, released the commemorative postage stamp honoring the 100th anniversary of the, founded by Yogananda. Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday at in appreciated Paramahansa Yogananda for spreading the message of India's spirituality in foreign shores. He said that though Paramahansa Yogananda left the shores of India to spread his message, he always remained connected with India. Noted direct disciples The members of this list were drawn from Yogananda's book Journey to Self-Realization, unless otherwise noted, and the date and location of first discipleship to Yogananda are given. Minot and Mildred Lewis, 1920, Boston.

Lewis, a Boston dentist, and his wife Mildred, met Paramahansaji a short time after Yogananda’s arrival in America in 1920 and became lifelong disciples. Minot served for many years as the vice-president of and a minister of Self-Realization Fellowship, Yogananda's worldwide mission. SRF published a biography about Minot Lewis, Dr. Lewis: The Life Story of One of the Earliest American Disciples.

In 1991 Brenda Rosser wrote a book about his and Mildred’s life with Yogananda called Treasures Against Time. There are many recorded lectures freely available on Yyoga.org. Yogamata, 1920, Boston.

Yogamata, born as Alice Haysey, took her final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda, making her the first nun ordained in SRF. Tara Mata, 1924, San Francisco. Tara Mata (Laurie Pratt) was a direct disciple for forty-five years and served Yogananda's SRF work until her death in 1971. She took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda and was given the name Tara which means a name for God in the aspect of Divine Mother. Yogananda assigned her as a member of the SRF Board of Directors and Editor-in-Chief of SRY/YSS publications and she was the Vice-President from 1962 – 1966. She wrote two books: Astrological World Cycles free download and A Forerunner of the New Race.

Gyanamata, 1924, Seattle. In 1932 Gyanamata (Mother of Wisdom) took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda. She served Yogananda and his Worldwide organization, SRF, until her death. She was assigned to train other disciples and provide counseling.

Part of her counselling came in letters she wrote. These letters are printed in the book about her life called God Alone, The Life and Letters of a Saint. Mildred (Mother) Hamilton, 1925, Seattle. Hamilton was made the center leader for Self-Realization Fellowship in Seattle, WA, and ordained a minister in 1950 by Yogananda.

He gave her the title Yogacharya in 1951 – one of six worldwide. After Yogananda went into Mahasamadhi (Yogi's final exit from the body), she continued as center leader until 1958 when she was dismissed from her role as a center leader in SRF. After that she continued on her own and held meetings in her disciples' homes and centers in the Northwest and Canada. She was a lifelong disciple of Yogananda's and never formed her own organization. She also had great reverence for who she says helped her gain complete Realization of God after Yogananda's Mahasamadhi.

She died on 31 January 1991. Kamala Silva, 1925, Los Angeles. Kamala met Yogananda in 1925 and assisted with the work of disseminating his teachings.

In 1935, Yogananda ordained Kamala, making her the first lay female Self-Realization Fellowship minister, and she continued to serve SRF as a lay minister until her retirement in 1974. Kamala established the first official Northern California Center of SRF and served as its minister. Kamala, along with the Bay Area SRF students, saved contributions for this purpose and searched for 25 years for a final home which became the recently closed SRF Richmond temple. This temple has been moved to Berkeley, CA. She wrote two books about her life with Yogananda called The Flawless Mirror and Priceless Precepts. There are 12 free recordings of her talks on topics related to her guru's teachings. Premananda, 1928.

In 1941 Premananda was given the title of Swami by Yogananda. After Yogananda was gone, he left SRF/YSS and started Self-Revelation Church of Monism in Bethesda, Maryland, based on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda with a focus on Kriya Yoga meditation.

Durga Mata, 1929, Detroit. Durga Mata was born as Florina Dufour. Durga Mata took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting her life fully to Yogananda and his SRF worldwide mission. When she took her monastic vows from Yogananda, she was given the name Durga Ma which is a name for God in the aspect of Divine Mother.

She wrote the book Paramhansa Yogananda: A Trilogy of Divine Love. SRF has published a book with 2 CD's called Chanting for Deep Meditation with Sri Durga Mata which presents archival recordings of the Cosmic Chants that are reminiscent of Yogananda's life and teachings. Ananda Mata, 1931, Salt Lake City. She took her final, lifelong vow of renunciation from Yogananda in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order and was given the name Mataji. She devoted her life fully to Yogananda and his SRF worldwide mission., 1931, Salt Lake City. Daya Mata (Mother of Compassion) was one of the foremost disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda.

She took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda and was given the name Daya. For more than seventy-five years, she dedicated her heart and soul to loving God and serving the worldwide work of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. She was the spiritual head and president from 1955 until her death in 2010.

She wrote four books and there have been ten DVD's and fifteen CD's recorded. Oliver Black, 1932, Detroit. Oliver Black was given the title Yogacharya (Yoga Teacher) by Yogananda and started the SRF Detroit, MI center and when encouraged to 'ad lib' the Sunday Services, instead he would read Yogananda's lecture saying that he couldn't improve on Yogananda teachings. He was one of very few non-monastic ministers qualified by SRF to conduct SRF Kriya Yoga Initiation Ceremonies. In 1970 Black founded Song of the Morning Ranch, a spiritual retreat, and Clear Light Community to carry out Yogananda's wishes. He served Yogananda and his organization Self-Realization Fellowship until his death.

There are five recorded talks by Oliver Black., 1932, Kansas. Rajarsi Janakananda, born James Jesse Lynn on 5 May 1892, was the leading disciple Paramahansa Yogananda and a prominent businessman in the Kansas City, Missouri area. A self-made millionaire when he met Yogananda in 1932, he later left a total endowment of approximately six million dollars to Yogananda's organization, Self-Realization Fellowship(SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS), helping ensure its long-term success.

He took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order. Janakananda built the SRF Encinitas Hermitage and Retreat, in Encinitas, CA. Yogananda also chose Janakananda to succeed him as president of SRF/YSS and he did so from 1952 until his death in 1955. Sradha Mata, 1933, Tacoma, WA. When she took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda, she was given the name Sradha which means receptivity to the Divine Will.

Sailasuta Mata, 1933, Santa Barbara. Sailasuta Mata took her final, lifelong vow of renunciation with Yogananda in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order and devoted her life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda. Bhaktananda, 1939. Bhaktananda took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting his life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda.

He served Yogananda for over sixty years until his death in 2005. Bhakatananda was recorded giving this talk The Personal Approach to God on the teachings of Yogananda which is available on DVD. He also shared stories about Yogananda on the DVD of the SRF Lake Shrine 50th Anniversary Celebration. Mrinalini Mata, 1945. Since January 7, 2011, she has been the current president, spiritual leader of SRF/YSS, Yogananda's worldwide work.

Mrinalini Mata took her final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda. Since 1966 she held the position of Vice-President of SRF/YSS. Mrinalini Mata is one of the close disciples of Yogananda personally chosen and trained by him to help guide his society after his death. She has dedicated more than 60 years to serving the Guru's work.

She oversees the spiritual and humanitarian activities of SRF/YSS, including the worldwide dissemination of Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings, the establishment and guidance of temples, centers, and retreats, and the spiritual direction of the SRF/YSS monastic communities. She also serves as editor-in-chief of SRF books, lessons and periodicals. She is featured in 4 DVDs, 6 CDs and wrote 1 book and 1 booklet.

Mukti Mata, 1945. Mukti Mata took the final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting her life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda. There is a CD of her talk Like the Light from Heaven: Remembering Life With Paramahansa Yogananda published by SRF. Daniel Boone, 1945. Bimalananda, 1947. Bimalananda took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting his life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda. Uma Mata, 1947.

Uma Mata took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting her life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda,., 1947, Los Angeles. Norman Paulsen left SRF in 1951 and then in 1969 started his own organization, Sunburst, which is an intentional community farm that raises organic vegetables and follows the Sunburst teachings which includes meditation and devotion to Yogananda and Christ. In the early 1980s, Norman published his autobiography, Christ Consciousness,., 1948, Los Angeles. Walters was given final vows of sannyas/name in 1955 by Daya Mata. In 1960 the SRF Board of Directors elected Walters as a board member then as Vice-President.

In 1962, the SRF Board unanimously requested his resignation. In 1968 Walters started his Ananda Cooperative Community (8 communities by 2013) – based on Yogananda's idea of World Brotherhood Colonies – and then his corporation, The Yoga Fellowship, west of Nevada City, CA. From 1990 – 2002 SRF engaged in litigation in federal court with Kriyananda regarding copyrights to the writings, photographs, and sound recordings of Yogananda's. In 1997 Anne-Marie Bertolucci engaged in litigation with Kriyananda regarding sexual harassment and fraudulently using his title of swami, implying he was celibate while engaging in sexual activity with young women.

Kriyananda authored over 100 books, 400 pieces of music and created his own teaching based on Yogananda's teachings. Anandamoy, 1949. Anandamoy took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, devoting his life fully to the SRF worldwide mission begun by Paramahansa Yogananda. Anandamoy served Yogananda's work for 67 years until his death in 2016. There are many recordings of his talks regarding Yogananda teachings. There are eight DVD's and six CD's available., 1949, Los Angeles. One year after Yogananda died, Roy Eugene Davis left SRF/YSS and his ministerial duties at the SRF Arizona temple.

About 13 years later Davis started his Center for Spiritual Awareness (CSA), which was incorporated in the State of Georgia in 1964 and was located on 11 acres 90 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia. He created his own teaching in the form of spiritual CDs, DVDs and books. Bob Raymer, 1950. Bob Raymer, a former commercial airline pilot, met Yogananda in the latter years of Yogananda's life. Yogananda initiated Raymer into Kriya Yoga and made him a minister of SRF. Raymer conducted services in Minneapolis for many years, telephoning Yogananda before each to receive his blessing.

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2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Kriya Yoga in the modern world. Paramahansa Yogananda devoted a chapter in his Autobiography of a Yogi to 'The Science of Kriya Yoga.' In God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, his commentaries on chapter IV, verses 1–2, 7–8, and 28–29, and chapter V, verses 27–28, give an advanced description of the yoga principles involved. Instruction in the actual techniques of Kriya Yoga is given to students of the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons who fulfil the requirements of certain preliminary spiritual disciplines.In the Bhagavad Gita, the Lord said to Arjuna:“I gave this imperishable Yoga to Vivasvat (the sun‑god); Vivasvat passed on the knowledge to Manu (the Hindu lawgiver); Manu told it to Ikshvaku (founder of the solar dynasty of the Kshatriyas). Handed down in this way in orderly succession, the Rajarishis (royal rishis) knew it. But, O Scorcher of Foes (Arjuna)!

By the long passage of time, this Yoga was lost sight of on earth.” — IV:1–2These two verses thus proclaim the historical antiquity of Raja (“royal”) Yoga, the eternal, immutable science of uniting soul and Spirit. At the same time, understood esoterically, they give a concise description of that science — the steps by which the soul descends from Cosmic Consciousness to the mortal state of identification with the human body, and the route it must take to reascend to its Source, the all‑blissful Eternal Spirit.Ascension follows in reverse the exact course of descension. In man, that course is the inner highway to the Infinite, the only route to divine union for followers of all religions in all ages. By whatever bypath of beliefs or practices a being reaches that singular highway, the final ascension from body consciousness to Spirit is the same for everyone: the withdrawal of life and consciousness from the senses upward through the gates of light in the subtle cerebrospinal centres, dissolving the consciousness of matter into life force, life force into mind, mind into soul, and soul into Spirit.The method of ascension is Raja Yoga, the eternal science that has been integral in creation from its inception. The Bhagavad Gita is India's most beloved scripture of yoga, the science of divine communion — and a timeless prescription for happiness and balanced success in everyday life. Paramahansa Yogananda's comprehensive work on the Gita is titled God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita — Royal Science of God‑Realization (two volumes; published by Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Los Angeles).

He wrote: 'My guru and paramgurus — Swami Sri Yukteswar, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Mahavatar Babaji — are rishis of this present age, masters who themselves are God‑realized living scriptures. They have bequeathed to the world — along with the long‑lost scientific technique of Kriya Yoga — a new revelation of the holy Bhagavad Gita, relevant primarily to the science of yoga and to Kriya Yoga in particular.Lahiri Mahasaya’s teaching is especially suited to the modern age because it does not ask anyone to believe dogmatically, but rather by practice of the proven techniques of Kriya Yoga to discover by personal realization the answer to the eternal question, “What is truth?” — about oneself and God. Even an atheist cannot deny the ever-increasing joy that springs from the regular practice of Kriya. As an educator, I tried this method on sceptical students in my school, and found them converted, not by my words, but by the constantly exhilarating results ensuing from its regular practice.Religion in its theoretical form is only partially satisfying, never fully convincing. I was won to my Master’s way of life partially by his words of wisdom, but principally because his emphasis on the deep and regular practice of Kriya Yoga enabled me to float on the boundless billows of joy. I am declaring to the world that Lahiri Mahasaya’s method gave me and is continually giving me ever-increasing happiness; and I fully believe it can produce the same bliss in all those, irrespective of temperament, who will seriously and regularly practice it. The Kriya Yoga Science of Pranayama (Life-Force Control)No devotee of any religion should be satisfied with untested beliefs and dogmas, but should engage himself in practical efforts to attain God‑realization.

Union with Spirit is possible only when the devotee, casting aside the superficial method of ceremonial worship or of the ineffective “going into the silence,” begins to practice a scientific technique of God‑realization.One cannot reach this goal just by mental meditation. Only deep concentration that disconnects the mind from breath, life force, and senses, and that unites the ego to the soul, is successful in producing the God‑wisdom of Self‑realization. The life force is the link between matter and Spirit. Flowing outward it reveals the spuriously alluring world of the senses; reversed inward it pulls the consciousness to the eternally satisfying bliss of God.Two men were meditating in different rooms, each of which contained a telephone. The telephone rang in each room.

One man said to himself, in a mood of intellectual bullheadedness: “I will concentrate so deeply that I will not be able to hear the rings of the telephone!” It is true that, in spite of external noise, he may succeed in concentrating within; but he has needlessly complicated his task. This man may be compared to a jnana yogi who tries to meditate on God, ignoring the unceasing telephonic messages of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, as well as the outward pulls of the life force.The second man in our illustration had no illusions about his power to ignore the rude clamour of the telephone.

He prudently withdrew the electrical plug and disconnected the instrument. He may be compared to the Kriya Yogi who prevents any sensory distractions during meditation by disconnecting the life force from the senses; he then reverses its flow, toward higher centres.The meditating devotee sits between these two worlds, striving to enter the kingdom of God, but kept engaged in battling the senses. With the aid of a scientific technique of pranayama such as Kriya Yoga, the yogi is at last victorious in reversing the outward‑flowing life energy that externalized his consciousness in the action of breath, heart, and sense‑ensnared life currents.

He enters the natural inner calm realm of the soul and Spirit. Withdrawing mind and life force from the sensory and motor nerves, the yogi leads them through the spine into the brain into eternal light. Here the mind and life become united with the eternal wisdom of Spirit manifested in the cerebrum.The centre of consciousness for the average individual is his body and the outer world. The yogi changes his centre of consciousness by nonattachment to the body and to worldly hopes and fears. By a technique — such as Kriya Yoga — of consciously controlling the life processes that tie the consciousness to the body (stilling the heart and breath), the yogi becomes established in the eternal wisdom‑perception of Spirit that manifests in the spiritual centre of cosmic consciousness in the brain. The yogi who can change his centre of consciousness from the sentient body to the cerebral throne of Spirit ultimately centralizes his consciousness on omnipresence. He attains the Eternal Wisdom.

Kriya Yoga Practice Bestows Peace and BlissThe aftereffects of Kriya bring with them the utmost peace and bliss. The joy that comes with Kriya is greater than the joys of all pleasurable physical sensations put together. “Unattracted to the sensory world, the yogi experiences the ever new joy inherent in the Self. Engaged in divine union of the soul with Spirit, he attains bliss indestructible.”. I met a very wealthy man in New York. In the course of telling me something about his life, he drawled, “I am disgustingly rich, and disgustingly healthy —” and before he could finish I exclaimed, “But you are not disgustingly happy! I can teach you how to be perpetually interested in being ever newly happy.”He became my student.

By practicing Kriya Yoga, and by leading a balanced life, ever inwardly devoted to God, he lived to a ripe old age, always bubbling with ever new happiness.On his deathbed he told his wife, “I am sorry for you — that you have to see me go — but I am very happy to join my Beloved of the Universe. Rejoice at my joy, and don’t be selfish by sorrowing. If you knew how happy I am to go to meet my beloved God, you wouldn’t be sad; rejoice to know that you will someday join me in the festivity of eternal bliss.”. The science of Kriya Yoga first became known to a world audience with the publication of Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi in 1946. In the book, he related the following conversation he had with his Guru years earlier:'Yogananda,' Sri Yukteswar said with unusual gravity, 'you have been surrounded from birth by direct disciples of Lahiri Maha saya. The great master lived his sublime life in partial seclusion, and steadfastly refused to permit his followers to build any organization around his teachings. He made, nevertheless, a significant prediction.'

'About fifty years after my passing,' he said, 'an account of my life will be written because of a deep interest in yoga that will arise in the West. The message of yoga will encircle the globe.

It will aid in establishing the brotherhood of man: a unity based on humanity's direct perception of the One Father.' 'My son Yogananda,' Sri Yukteswar went on, 'you must do your part in spreading that message, and in writing that sacred life.' Fifty years after Lahiri Mahasaya's passing in 1895 culminated in 1945, the year of completion of this present book. I cannot but be struck by the coincidence that the year 1945 has also ushered in a new age — the era of revolutionary atomic energies. All thoughtful minds turn as never before to the urgent problems of peace and brotherhood.particularSri Yukteswar told me: “After the mind has been cleared by Kriya Yoga of sensory obstacles, meditation furnishes a twofold proof of God. Ever new joy is evidence of His existence, convincing to our very atoms.

Also, in meditation one finds His instant guidance, His adequate response to every difficulty.”. No devotee should be satisfied until he has sufficiently developed his intuition — by impartial introspection and deep meditation, as in Kriya Yoga — to experience the communion of soul and Spirit.If a devotee meditates intensely for at least short periods every day, and has longer periods of three or four hours of deep meditation once or twice a week, he will find his intuition becoming sufficiently superfine to realize unendingly the dialogue of blissful wisdom exchanged between the soul and God. He will know the interiorized state of communion in which his soul “talks” to God and receives His responses, not with the utterances of any human language, but through wordless intuitional exchanges. First, meditate upon the thought, “I and my Father are one,” trying to feel a great peace, and then a great joy in your heart. When that joy comes, say, “Father, Thou art with me. I command Thy power within me to cauterize my brain cells of wrong habits and past seed tendencies.” The power of God in meditation will do it.

Rid yourself of the limiting consciousness that you are a man or a woman; know that you are the child of God. Then mentally affirm and pray to God: “I command my brain cells to change, to destroy the grooves of bad habits that have made a puppet out of me.

Lord, burn them up in Thy divine light.” And when you will practice the Self-Realization techniques of meditation, especially Kriya Yoga, you will actually see that light of God baptizing you. In India, a man who had a bad temper came to me. He was a specialist in slapping his bosses when he lost his temper, so he also lost one job after another. He would become so uncontrollably irate that he would throw at whoever bothered him anything that was handy. He asked me for help.

I told him, “The next time you get angry, count to one hundred before you act.” He tried it, but came back to me and said, “I get more angry when I do that. While I am counting, I am blind with rage for having to wait so long.” His case looked hopeless.Then I told him to practice Kriya Yoga, with this further instruction: “After practicing your Kriya, think that the divine Light is going into your brain, soothing it, calming your nerves, calming your emotions, wiping away all anger. And one day your temper tantrums will be gone.” Not long after that, he came to me again, and this time he said, “I am free from the habit of anger. I am so thankful.”I decided to test him. I arranged for some boys to pick a quarrel with him.

I hid myself in the park along the route where he used to pass regularly, so that I could observe. The boys tried again and again to goad him into a fight, but he wouldn’t respond. He kept his calmness.By communing with God you change your status from a mortal being to an immortal being. When you do this, all bonds that limit you will be broken. This is a very great law to remember. As soon as your attention is focused, the Power of all powers will come, and with that you can achieve spiritual, mental, and material success. Finding Perfect LoveThe greatest love you can experience is in communion with God in meditation.

The love between the soul and Spirit is the perfect love, the love you are all seeking.If you meditate deeply, a love will come over you such as no human tongue can describe, and you will be able to give that pure love to others.When you experience that divine love, you will see no difference between flower and beast, between one human being and another. You will commune with all nature, and you will love equally all mankind. Freedom From Fear and InsecurityCessation of fear comes with the contact of God, nothing else.

Through Yoga you can have that communion with Him.When you find God, what assurance and fearlessness you will have! Then nothing else matters at all, nothing can ever make you afraid.My prayer for each of you is that from today you will make a supreme effort for God, and that you never give up until you are established in Him. If you love Him you will practice Kriya with the greatest devotion and faithfulness.

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Continuously seek Him through prayer and Kriya Yoga. Be of good cheer, for as Babaji once said, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita: “Even a tiny bit of this real religion protects one from great fear (the colossal sufferings inherent in the repeated cycles of birth and death).”.John speaks of the “mystery of the seven stars” and the “seven churches” (Revelation 1:20); these symbols refer to the seven astral centres of light in the spine. The recondite imagery throughout this nonunderstood chapter of the Bible is an allegorical representation of the revelations that come with the opening of these centres of life and consciousness, the “book sealed with seven seals” (Revelation 5:1).From Yogoda Satsanga magazine, Summer 2011.