PUBLISHER: Ananda Editions

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2016

FORMAT: DVD – Total duration: 87 minutes – DVD

Biography of Paramhansa Yogananda

Paramhansa Yogananda he was the first Indian great master to move to the West. He is considered one of the main spiritual guides of our times.

He was born in 1893 a Gorakhpur, in India, come Mukunda Lal Ghosh, from a wealthy family in Bengal.
A 11 years, immediately after her mother's death, had a vision of Divine Mother who told him that she had always watched over him. Paramhansa Yogananda always remained linked to this devotional figure, for the entire duration of his life.
He became a disciple of the great man at seventeen Swami Sri Yukteswar (a sua volta discepolo di Lahiri Mahasaya), at whose ashram he remained for ten years.
In the 1915, after graduating from Calcutta University, he joined his master's monastic order, receiving the name Swami Yogananda.
In the 1920 arrived in Boston, as representative for India at International Congress of Religious Leaders. Who, in the same year, he founded the religious association Self Realization Fellowship (SRF), then settled permanently in Los Angeles in 1925.

For over thirty years, with countless trips, conferences and lessons, exposed them to the Western world Yoga teachings and of meditation.
He chose his disciples following the indications received from the Divine Mother, every time it was invoked.
In the 1935 he made a long journey between Europe and Africa and then stopped, over a year, in India, where his master Sri Yukteswar conferred on him the monastic title of Paramhansa (supreme swan).
He entered Mahasamadhi on 7 March 1952, leaving both the East and the West an immense legacy of spiritual and moral order, witnessed and spread throughout the world.

Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings are contained in the book Autobiography of a Yogi and in many of his writings, lessons, speeches and comments, published further 25 villages. It was especially in his last years of life that Paramhansa Yogananda, he stopped traveling and devoted himself to writing of numerous books, to leave written teachings, therefore permanent, to all humanity.
Yogananda emphasized the eternal principles underlying every religion.
Its purpose was to help sincere seekers of the Truth, regardless of their beliefs, to obtain the internal and direct experience of God.
He taught that the intimate essence of every religion is the same: the way to union with the Infinite, known as “Self-realization”.

To help us, Yogananda transmitted the ancient science of Kriya Yoga, teaching spiritual practices easily accessible to Western seekers, to ensure that everyone can have their own direct experience with God, without difficulty.
These yoga techniques are highly effective, despite their extreme simplicity in putting them into practice. Their ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone, through one's energy and awakening one's conscience, can give new vigor to the body, to the mind and conscience. Ques’ultima, mortal and limited in men, finds its greatest realization inunion with the consciousness of God.
Regardless of the religious belief to which human beings are initiated and feel connected, they must find serenity again, the road of daily meditation, l’harmony in themselves and with others.
Regardless of how He is called in different languages, God is always one, and he is the only one who can relieve us from all evils: physicists, mental and spiritual.
The meditation it is the most effective tool for leading a fulfilling life, to willingly accept even the less pleasant moments, our own defects and negativities that sometimes arise in our lives; it is also perfect for rediscovering yourself, your own soul, one's conscience and get ever closer to the divine dimension.

Paramhansa Yogananda's teachings have become important points of reference for the whole world, even for very important personalities and spiritual guides like the Mahatma Gandhi.

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