Letters starting with “Y”
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
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Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh 5 January 1893 Gorakhpur, (present day Utlar Predesh, India). Died 7 March 1952 (aged 59), Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Nationality Indian. Founder of Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Philosophy, Hinduism, Kriya Yoga.
In 1920, Yogananda went to the United States as India’s delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals. That same year he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship to disseminate worldwide his teachings on India’s ancient practices and philosophy of Yoga and its tradition of meditation. He attracted a number of celebrity followers, including soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, tenor Vladimir Rosing and Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch the daughter of Mark Twain.
YOGI
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A yogi (sometimes spelled jogi) is a practitioner of yoga. In Vedic Sanskrit, yoga (from the root yuj) means “to add”, “to join”, “to unite”, or “to attach” in its most literal sense, where in recent days, especially in the West, yoga often refers to exercise only. The term yogi is used broadly to refer to sannyasi or practitioners of meditation in a number of Indian religions. The feminine form is yogini, but is not always used, especially in the West.
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