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Yogananda as a God-realized soul

Nayaswami Devarshi

Question from Vinay: Hi, I read this conversation in Autobiography of a Yogi between Sri Yukteshwar and Yogananda where Yogananda accepts his discipline on the condition that his guru reveal God to him. After a long verbal tussle, he accepts it. I want to ask that when Sri Yukteshwar knew that Yogananda was a God realized soul, why did this conversation take place?…

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How to recover from a “toxic” relationship

Nayaswami Anandi

Question from kat: How do you move on from a toxic relationship. I have excerted willpower, prayer, and so on. I cannot break away from this relationship. I am in my mid fifties and have ‘suffered’ with this ‘addiction’ to this man for 20 years. I have been the supporter. Now he has become his own breadwinner and so he treats me poorly…

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Yogananda’s popularity

Nayaswami Pranaba

Question from jon: Dear friends, How well known is Yogananda in the USA and India. Is he as well known as Ramakrishna? Do people have the same respect for Yogananda as they have for Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, just to take an example. Thank you.

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Why is “Paramhansa” spelled two different ways?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from No name: With all respect due, May I ask why the name Paramhansa Yogananda is also spelled Paramahansa? I find on your site and some others it is spelled the first way and then on the site which is dedicated to his foundation Self Realization Fellowship it is spelled the latter way. Thank you for any explanation you might afford me.

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Paramhansa Yogananda was William the Conqueror?

Catherine Kairavi

Question from James: I read that Paramhansa Yogananda had said he was William the Conqueror in a previous incarnation. I also read, however, that William the Conqueror skinned people alive and hung them from their windows. I wonder if you could help me resolve this contradiction?

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Is Yogananda infallible?

Nayaswami Seva

Question from Jerry: Is Yogananda understood to have been infallible?

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Padre Pio

Nayaswami Anandi

Question from øyvind: hi friends How can it be that master never wanted to meet Padre Pio he did meet many other saints did he had anything ageinst him?He was in Italy so it must have been possible to meet-i ask about pater Pio bec i have an interest in him.it would have been so intersting to know what yogananda had to say…

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Could you explain a line from Yogananda’s poem “Samadhi”?

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from tyler: In Paramhansa Yogananda’s poem, “Samadhi”, there is a line that I’ve never really been able to grasp: “…glaciers of silent x-rays.” The rest of the poem is such an increasingly amazing aid to my meditations but whenever I go through this particular line, I am like, “huh?” What do you think? Jai Guruji!

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Thai translations

Nayaswami Seva

Question from jon: Dear friends Is there any good information about Yogananda in Thai language? I want my wife to know a little about him because she asks me, but I can not find anything on the internet.