Celebrating 130th Birth Anniversary of a Premavatar Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Oh, I will come again and again!… If need be a trillion times - So long as I know One stray brother is left behind… Thus promised Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda in “Songs of the Soul,” one of the many spiritual classics as testimony of his divine eloquence. At the crest of the celestial wave being “Autobiography of a Yogi,” the harbinger of the revival of the world’s interest in India’s ancient science of Yoga. Known as “Father of Yoga in the West,” Yoganandaji was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5th at Gorakhpur. Yoganandji’s parents had taken their precocious infant to Yogavatar Lahari Mahasaya of Banaras. Spiritually baptising him the majestic yogi had made a sacred prophecy , “Little mother, thy son will be a yogi. As a spiritual engine he will carry many souls to God’s kingdom.” The ideal of holistic development of youth being close to his heart, Yoganandaji established a school for boys at Dihika in 1917. A year later the Kasimbazar Palace at Ranchi became the site of this propitious venture into education. This was the beginning of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) whose pivotal ideal being – “To serve mankind as one’s larger Self.” In 1920 Yoganandaji was invited to be the delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in America. Thereafter he established Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) with its headquarters in LA. At the core of his teachings is a potent system of meditation techniques - the Kriya Yoga science of meditation. Its soulful application resonates to Yoganandaji’s ideal of a true life; “Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.” Further info.: yssofindia.org Writer: Sandhya S. Nayar. #yogananda #kriyayoga #janmotsav #paramahansayogananda #meditation #birthanniversary #kriyayogaguru https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9iGPfSMVA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=