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Who contributed to the establishment of yoga in America? Who is Paramahansa Yogananda? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paramahansa Yogananda was a world-renowned yoga practitioner and teacher known for contributing to the adoption of yoga in America, specifically the style of kriya yoga. His goal was to create a spiritual connection between the West and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn how Yogananda played a key role in bringing kriya yoga to America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Origins of Yoga in America: Yogananda’s Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Autobiography of a Yogi <\/em>is the memoir of Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the world\u2019s most famous yoga practitioners and teachers. Yogananda is best known for bringing kriya yoga to America, thereby creating a spiritual connection between the West and his homeland of India. In addition to receiving training in kriya yoga, Yogananda earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Calcutta University in 1915. <\/strong>His mentor Sri Yukteswar Giri<\/a> had encouraged him to go to university\u2014he\u2019d foreseen that Yogananda would teach yoga in America and said that Westerners would listen more readily to somebody with a degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Calcutta University is consistently rated as one of the best public universities in India<\/a>, and it often ranks #1 in the country. Holding a degree from such a prestigious university likely gave Yogananda much greater credibility in the Western world, as Yukteswar predicted.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, though he did get his degree, Yogananda says that he was always too focused on his spiritual training to study. In fact, he only passed his final exams by a series of seemingly impossible coincidences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

True to Yukteswar\u2019s prediction that Yogananda would teach yoga in America, Yogananda received an invitation to speak at the 1920 meeting of the International Congress of Religious Liberals, held in Boston. Yogananda accepted the invitation and made the trip to America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his speech, Yogananda spoke about how God is universal. Therefore, regardless of their specific beliefs and rituals, all who seek God should think of themselves as part of the same religion.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogananda\u2019s First Speech in America<\/strong>

Yogananda gives very few details about this speech in Autobiography of a Yogi<\/em>. However, the Self-Realization Fellowship\u2019s blog provides a brief summary<\/a> of it. His speech covered three key points.

First, he said that religions shouldn\u2019t be separated from each other by dogmatic beliefs and practices.<\/strong> Rather, all religions should be united by the universal understanding that God is bliss, and union with God is the only way to achieve true happiness<\/a>.  

Second, Yogananda stated that God must be understood intuitively\u2014through experience\u2014rather than logically. <\/strong>This is crucial because trying to understand something logically means separating yourself from it and trying to learn through observation, while the purpose of religion<\/a> is to unite with God. 

Finally, he elaborated that kriya yoga provides concrete, practical techniques for people to understand and unite with God. <\/strong>

In short, Yogananda\u2019s speech in America was a distillation of his beliefs and his mission: to bring people of all backgrounds and faiths together with God through kriya yoga. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yogananda Fulfills His Destiny<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By this time, Yogananda explains, he fully understood the destiny that Lahiri Mahasaya had foretold for him: He would bring yoga to America, becoming a teacher and guide for thousands of people. So, after the Congress of Religious Liberals ended, Yogananda stayed in the US, and California became his home for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Although Yogananda officially made his home in California, he spent the next 10 years traveling all over America<\/a> to give lectures and presentations about yoga. In fact, he spoke at many of the largest auditoriums in the country during this time, and these venues were frequently filled to capacity.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1925, Yogananda founded the headquarters of the Self-Realization Fellowship\u2014a global branch of the YSS\u2014in Los Angeles, California. The headquarters was the second of the three buildings he\u2019d seen in his visions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogananda\u2019s Death in 1952<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yogananda ends his story in 1945, at the end of World War II. He explains that he and the other residents of the Encinitas ashram came together to thank God for bringing peace and pray that the world would never know such strife again. Yogananda looked at the assembled yogis and remarked that he\u2014a monk sworn to celibacy\u2014had been blessed with an enormous family. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogananda died in 1952. His funeral service, held in Los Angeles, attracted hundreds of people who came to pay their last respects to the great teacher and spiritual leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Paramahansa Yogananda was buried in Forest Lawn Park<\/a> in Glendale, California. A report by Forest Lawn\u2019s mortuary director notes that Yogananda\u2019s body had not decayed<\/a> in the 20 days between his death and burial and that he seemed to be contently smiling even in death. Yogananda\u2019s legacy<\/a> of bringing yoga to America and as one of the most influential yogis of the modern world lives on through the YSS and the Self-Realization Fellowship.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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