PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

The idea of love for God and service to humanity found full expression in the life of PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA. He is born on 01.05.1893 at gorakhpur ,utter pradesh ,he had but one goal : God -realization ,and one programme :to unite East and West by spiritual understanding ,to demonstrate the underlying unity of all religious and to awaken divine yearning in all hearts.

The education of youth was always intensely interesting to Yogananda. In 1917,he founded Yogada Satsanga Society of India and established his first school at Ranchi (Jharkhad State), which has expanded now to four colleges and seventeen schools in differents Sates in India.

In 1920 ,Paramahansa Yogananda began his mission in the West. Service as a delegate from India to the International congress of Religions, he travelled to Boston. He spoke of the ancient spiritual teachings of India and the sacred science of Kriya (raja ) Yoga. He travelled extensively in America and millions attended his lectures on the subject of attaining direct personal experience of God . In 1925, he founded an International Math in Los Angeles in usa.

But for a short visit to India in 1935 when, among others ,he had fruitful discussions with Mahatma Gandhi ,the Paramahansa continued his work in the west . He gave lectures on the spiritual and cultural heritage of India and conducted classes in balanced living -- God can be realized in the home as well as in the ashram. He worte several books of which his "Autobiography of a Yogi " is recognized throughout the world as a spiritual classic .

Yogananda's exemplary life ended in Los Angeles on 07.03.1952 a few moments after he uttered the final words in a speech at a reception in honour of Ambassador of India to the United States. His deep pride in his native land echoed throughout his last learned to love God and all things beautiful ." Though the major part of his life was spent outside India ,still Paramahansa Yogananda 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.

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