Paramahamsa Yogananda This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. kriya.org

   kriya.org/soulculture/vol_16_3 - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/1/2006   Last Visited: 6/12/2008

   After the mahasamadhi of Shriyukteshwarji, Paramahamsa Yogananda became the head of Karar Ashram and Swami Satyananda became the acting head in the absence of Yoganandajji.Yoganandaji, after initiating Brahmachari Sudhir into monastic life in the name of Swami Sevananda, appointed him as the Swami-in-charge of the ashram, Acharya of Karar Ashram.Sevanandaji continued in this capacity till 1950.He was helping Brahmachari Rabinarayan in every respect.
   
   During the period of his sadhana from 1938-48, Brahmachari Rabinarayan also looked after the development of Karar Ashram, his holy abode of spiritual practice and realization.
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   In 1951, under the direct supervision of Brahmachariji and with the assistance of Sananda Lal Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahamsa Yogananda, a beautiful temple for Shriyukteshwar was constructed on the samadhi place of this great yogi, with a blooming lotus on the top.
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   Realizing the need for a teacher of Kriya Yoga in the Ashram and having known the spiritual attainment of Brahmachari Rabinarayan, Paramahamsa Yogananda empowered him in the year 1951 to teach Kriya Yoga to sincere seekers.
   
   From that time onwards he has been working hard for the spiritual upliftment of the disciples.He is a Guru with a difference.The work of the Guru is not just uttering a mantra in the ear of the disciple, but to help bring inner transformation in the life of a seeker.Purifying the body, he initiates and guides and helps the disciples for the simultaneous development of body, mind, intellect and soul.He has been working tirelessly to make his disciples highly advanced in the spiritual path.
   
   He is a child with children, young with the youth, and wise with the aged.He is like a mother, father, friend, philosopher and guide to all who come near him.
   
   Paramahamsa Yogananda was planning to visit India in 1952.He wrote to his friend and brother monk, Swami Satyananda about this.He had the wish to see the Karar Ashram of his beloved Guru in its new form.
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   In the "Autobiography of a Yogi", by Paramahamsa Yogananda, there is an episode of a botanist who could grow a thorn-less cactus not genetically, but by changing its nature.

2. 2. Kriya Yoga Timeline

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   Published on: 4/15/2005   Last Visited: 8/30/2006

   1893, Jan. 5: Birth of Mukunda Lal Ghosh (later known as Paramahamsa Yogananda) in Gorakhpur, of Bhagabati Charan Ghosh and Gyana Prabha Devi.
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   1920, October: Paramahamsa Yogananda is invited to address the International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston, Massachusetts, which marks the introduction of Kriya Yoga to the West.His speech on "The Science of Religion" was so well received and so widely reprinted, that he spent the next three years in Boston ... and a total of fifteencontinuous years in the West.
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   1924: Paramahamsa Yogananda begins a national tour of all major American cities."During the decade of 1920-1930 my yoga classes were attended by tens of thousands of Americans," he wrote.
   
   1925: Paramahamsa Yogananda founds the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) in Los Angeles.
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   1936: Swami Satyananda becomes acting President of Karar Ashram in the absence of Paramahamsa Yogananda.Paramahamsa Yogananda initiates Br.
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   1936-1952: Tenure of the second president (sadhu sabhapati) of Karar Ashram, Paramahamsa Yogananda.
   
   1936: Paramahamsa Yogananda visits Mahatma Gandhi in his ashram in Wardha, and, at his request, initiates him into Kriya Yoga.
   
   1937, June: Taking a medical leave of absence from work, Rabindranath Bhattacharya sets off for Puri.He arrives on a full moon, and that night has the vision of his departed guru Shriyukteshwarji walking in the gardens of the Karar Ashram.He extends his leave of absence and spends a year and a half in a rented house next door to the Karar Ashram, which he frequents daily.He joins the Officers' Club and becomes acquainted with the high society of Puri.
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   1950: Paramahamsa Yogananda appoints Br. Robinarayan acharya of the Karar Ashram, replacing Swami Sevananda who is transferred to the Yuktashram in Bhisindipur, Bengal.
   
   Early 1950's: Sanyal Mahasaya leaves Puri secretly to become a monk.Br. Robinarayan, taking his guru's wife with him, traces him in Varanasi, and convinces him to return to his family duties in Puri.
   
   1951: Paramahamsa Yogananda empowers Br. Robinarayan to initiate others into Kriya Yoga.
   
   1951: Br. Robinarayan supervises, with the help of Sanandalal Gosh (Yogananda's younger brother), the construction of Shriyukteshwar's temple in the Karar Ashram.
   
   1952, March 7: Mahasamadhi of Paramahamsa Yogananda in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Yoganandaji's beloved and realized disciple, Mr. James Lynn (a.k.a. Rajarsi Janakananda) becomes the second president of Self-Realization Fellowship.
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   Sri Daya Mata, Yogananda's long-time secretary, becomes the third president of Self-Realization Fellowship.
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   2002, February 18: Roy Eugene Davis, a long-time disciple of Paramahamsa Yogananda and empowered yogacharya, comes to visit Baba in the Homestead ashram.

3. 3. Soul Culture Volume 16.3 Summer 2006

   www.kriya.org/soulculture/vol_ - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/1/2006   Last Visited: 6/12/2008

   After the mahasamadhi of Shriyukteshwarji, Paramahamsa Yogananda became the head of Karar Ashram and Swami Satyananda became the acting head in the absence of Yoganandajji.Yoganandaji, after initiating Brahmachari Sudhir into monastic life in the name of Swami Sevananda, appointed him as the Swami-in-charge of the ashram, Acharya of Karar Ashram.Sevanandaji continued in this capacity till 1950.He was helping Brahmachari Rabinarayan in every respect.
   
   During the period of his sadhana from 1938-48, Brahmachari Rabinarayan also looked after the development of Karar Ashram, his holy abode of spiritual practice and realization.
   ...
   In 1951, under the direct supervision of Brahmachariji and with the assistance of Sananda Lal Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahamsa Yogananda, a beautiful temple for Shriyukteshwar was constructed on the samadhi place of this great yogi, with a blooming lotus on the top.
   ...
   Realizing the need for a teacher of Kriya Yoga in the Ashram and having known the spiritual attainment of Brahmachari Rabinarayan, Paramahamsa Yogananda empowered him in the year 1951 to teach Kriya Yoga to sincere seekers.
   
   From that time onwards he has been working hard for the spiritual upliftment of the disciples.He is a Guru with a difference.The work of the Guru is not just uttering a mantra in the ear of the disciple, but to help bring inner transformation in the life of a seeker.Purifying the body, he initiates and guides and helps the disciples for the simultaneous development of body, mind, intellect and soul.He has been working tirelessly to make his disciples highly advanced in the spiritual path.
   
   He is a child with children, young with the youth, and wise with the aged.He is like a mother, father, friend, philosopher and guide to all who come near him.
   
   Paramahamsa Yogananda was planning to visit India in 1952.He wrote to his friend and brother monk, Swami Satyananda about this.He had the wish to see the Karar Ashram of his beloved Guru in its new form.
   ...
   In the "Autobiography of a Yogi", by Paramahamsa Yogananda, there is an episode of a botanist who could grow a thorn-less cactus not genetically, but by changing its nature.