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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI (498 pp.) -Paramhansa Yogananda-Philosophical Library...
...shop as a swami if he can find any followers. As a result there are devout swamis who lead the good life and there are swamis who simply enjoy a good life. Few of either kind write their autobiographies, so this life story by California's Paramhansa Yogananda (a Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough...
...Swami Yogananda belongs outside the most publicized U.S. Indian movement-the Vedanta-which includes Huxley, Isherwood, et al. He is also scorned by them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together...
...Angeles: Rechecking length of atomic age according to Paramhansa Swami Yogananda. Is it 100 or 1000 years? Also: Are fleas bad in all Southern California or just in some sections...
Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano) gave her name for advertising purposes to Swami Yogananda of India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...