Word: yogananda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who love me. I will bathe all souls in my unselfish love. In the sea of my love, my family members, my countrymen, all nations, and all beings will swim. All creation, all the myriads of tiny living things, will dance on the waves of my love. Paramahansa Yogananda...
...Self-Realization Fellowship, too, seemed likely to sputter out after the death of Founder Paramhansa Yogananda in 1952, but instead it has thrived. Membership has doubled over the past ten years, to about 125,000 (one-third of them in California). The Fellowship is now in the midst of a building program, and the number of worship centers is expected to double, to 180, within six months. One source of the Fellowship's financial prosperity is the success of its best-known commercial enterprise, the Mushroomburger restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard; it features, along with more...
...Essence of Life." Founder Yogananda (born Mukunda Lai Ghosh) was the son of an Indian banker and railroad executive, began preaching his Westernized version of Indian doctrines in the U.S. in 1920. A California follower recalls that when he met Yogananda, "I knew I had found the essence of life. He had the essence that showed a great peace, a great joy." Since 1955, the sect has been governed by Miss Faye Wright, 49, known in the Fellowship as Daya Mata. Daya Mata joined the sect in Salt Lake City at the age of 17, after Yogananda cured...
...head of the sect, Daya Mata is custodian and chief interpreter of Yogananda's teachings. Many of them are set down in a book of epigrammatic conversations with disciples, somewhat in the manner of the Confucian sayings. Sample: "Seek God for his own sake. The highest perception is to feel him as bliss, welling up from your infinite depths. Don't yearn for visions, spiritual phenomena, or thrilling experiences. The path to the divine is not a circus...