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Yogānanda, Paramahamsa

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Yogānanda, Paramahamsa (1893–1952). Founder of the Hindu Self-Realization Fellowship. Taking Yukteśvar as his guru, he went to lecture in the USA in 1920 and stayed there, founding a Yoga Institute in Los Angeles in 1925. He travelled extensively, extending the Fellowship, and advocating Kriyā-yoga, yoga based on practical efforts. His own account is in Autobiography of a Yogi (1946).

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