Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) was an Indian spiritual teacher, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, in northern India. As a young man he became a disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri, graduated from the University of Calcutta, and took monastic vows under the name Yogananda; in 1917 he founded a school for boys at Ranchi that combined ordinary education with yoga training. In 1920 he travelled to Boston as a delegate to an international congress of religious liberals, and stayed in the United States, founding the Self-Realization Fellowship, with its headquarters in Los Angeles, and lecturing across the country to large audiences. During a visit to India in 1935–1936 he met Mahatma Gandhi and received the title Paramahansa from his guru. His Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) introduced millions of readers to meditation and Kriya Yoga. He died in Los Angeles in 1952.
