Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga

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Swami Satyananda (b. Manamohan Mazumder), childhood friend and life-

long associate of Yogananda, disciple of Sri Yukteswar

Swami Satyeswarananda, studied under Satyananda, biographer of Yogananda

Swami Vivekananda (b. Narendra Nath Datta), Indian representative at the

1893 World Parliament of Religions and one of the first Yogis to visit

America, disciple of the Bengali mystic Ramakrishna, founder of Vedanta

Society

Yogi Hamid Bey, Yogi Roman Ostoja, associates of Yogananda during the

1930s

Yogi Ramacharaka, pseudonym of New Thought author William Walker

Atkinson