Finding God through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age PDF
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Finding God through Yoga FINDING GOD THROUGH YOGA Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age David J. Neumann THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS Chapel Hill © 2019 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Jamison Cockerham Set in Arno, Kododa, and Scala Sans by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Cover illustration: Portrait of Paramahansa Yogananda ca. 1920 from Wikimedia Commons; the Encinitas Hermitage of the Self-Realization Fellowship, Encinitas, Calif. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Neumann, David J., author. Title: Finding God through yoga : Paramahansa Yogananda and modern American religion in a global age / David J. Neumann. Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018029691 | ISBN 9781469648620 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469648637 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469648644 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893–1952. | Yogis—United States— Biography. | Self- Realization Fellowship—History. | Yoga. | Hinduism—United States—History. | United States—Religion —History. Classification: LCC BP605.S43 Y668 2018 | DDC 204/.36—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018029691 To CHRISTA for everything, as always Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Paramahansa Yogananda, the Father of Yoga in the West 1 The Making of a Modern Religious Seeker: From Mukunda Lal Ghosh to Swami Yogananda, 1893–1920 2 The Founding of a Home for Scientific Religion: Swami Yogananda and Southern California’s Spiritual Frontier, 1920–1925 3 The Creation of a Yogi Guru Persona: Marketing Swami Yogananda and His Yoga Instruction, 1925–1935 4 The Apotheosis of a Global Guru: Paramahansa Yogananda and His Autobiography, 1933–1946 5 The Death of an Immortal Guru: Charisma, Succession, and Paramahansa Yogananda’s Legacy, 1946–1952 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Figures Yogananda commemorative stamp issued by the government of India, 2017 Yogoda Satsanga Ashram, Dakshineswar, Calcutta, India Mukunda Lal Ghosh’s childhood home at 4 Garpar Road, Calcutta, India Mukunda as a high school student Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Calcutta, India Swami Yukteswar, Yogananda’s guru Swami Yogananda as a young man Mount Washington Center, Self-Realization Fellowship International Headquarters Advertisement for a Yogananda talk in Los Angeles, 1925 Advertisement for Yogananda’s Yogoda Correspondence Course James Lynn, Rajarsi Janakananda Two significant SRF properties: the Encinitas Hermitage and the Lake Shrine “Last Smile” photograph of Yogananda, taken March 7, 1952, just before his mahasamādhi The Biltmore Hotel banquet room where Yogananda entered mahasamādhi Paramahansa Yogananda shrine, Encinitas Books & Gifts, Encinitas, California
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