Wisdom Quarterly; Ananda.org; Yogananda-SRF.org
(MT) "Awake" stars Anupam Kher and is directed by Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman.
Paramhansa Yogananda came to America from India to spread the teachings of Hinduism, combining it with Christianity, which was easy because Jesus had been to India and was a mendicant
rishi (seer) and yogi, according to Christian Westerner
Nicolas Notovitch.
Yogananda founded the
Self-Realization Fellowship (the leadership of which was subsequently handed to
Sri Daya Mata, an American Mormon woman) and delivered an ancient message to the West eager for spiritual nourishment with his best selling book,
Autobiography of a Yogi.
My Life With Yogananda
(Ananda Los Angeles/AnandaLA.org) Based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, and his close, direct disciple Swami Kriyananda.
A scandal and a schism arose around him creating two sects, with an original (Ananda) and redacted (
SRF) version of his famous book. Rather than being a celibate saint, Yogananda may have dated and had a son, who would be his rightful legal heir if true. And this has led to a persistent controversy and been a pain to the official organization he left behind. An upstart organization (
Ananda.org) led by his direct disciple
Swami Kriyananda (James Donald Walters) is fine with telling the truth about a few chapters of his life that official organization is desperate to keep secret as it seems to mar the purity of his reputation.
Was he a
Hindu saint? He was someone with extraordinary powers, and many of his disciples -- who learn their lessons by an innovative, do-it-yourself mail order program on
Kriya Yoga (simple actions to stimulate meditation) and sing amazing chants he wrote in English -- feel he is in contact and helping them from a heaven (the
Brahma loka).
The tradition he founded is not syncretic, combining Hinduism (which includes
Mahayana Buddhism within it) and Christianity. They are so similar at less superficial levels that they go hand in hand.
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| Sri Daya Mata (left) and the official organization left behind by Yogananda (SRF) |
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| "Everything else can wait, but your search for God[hood] cannot wait." - Yogananda |
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| Nature makes cute things. |
The
woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species. Its appearance and behavior are among the best studied of any
prehistoric animal due to the discovery of frozen carcasses (pictured) in
Siberia and
Alaska, as well as skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, scat (dung), and depiction from life in prehistoric
cave paintings. The animal was only identified as an extinct species of elephant by
Georges Cuvier in 1796. Its closest extant relative is the
Asian elephant. The woolly mammoth was well adapted to the cold environment during the last
ice age, and had long, curved tusks. Its habitat was the
mammoth steppe, which stretched across northern Eurasia and North America. The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans...
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