Dhirananda’s Philosophic Insight (1926) is advertised as available for purchase in
a bundle along with four of Yogananda’s books. Presumably this would not have
been the case after 1929, when Dhirananda broke with Yogananda.
See Rosser 1991.
Satyananda 2004: 264.
Walters 2004: 77.
Satyeswarananda 1994: 108.
Choudhury 2007: 32.
Walters 2004: 91.
New York Times 1928.
Miami Daily News 1928b.
Miami Daily News 1928a.
Miami Daily News 1928b.
Los Angeles Times 1928.
Los Angeles Times 1935a.
Los Angeles Times 1935b.
Swami Giri- Dhirananda, also known as Basu Kumar Bagchi v. Swami Yogananda,
also known as Mukunda Lal Ghosh, No. 387391 (Cal. Super. Ct. 1935).
Los Angeles Times 1939.
Los Angeles Times 1940b.
Los Angeles Times 1940a.
Walters 2004: 197.
Charlton 1990: 78. Hilda Charlton met Yogananda at a small lecture in Santa
Barbara and briefly stayed with him in Encinitas and then at Mt. Washington. She
ultimately left without becoming disciple, though later received Yogananda’s mail-
order lessons.
Kriyananda 2011: 266.
Rosser 1991: 48.
Charlton 1990: 96.
Charlton 1990: 97. Yogananda also performed the “six men” demonstration in
Boston (see Kriyananda 2011: 35).
Los Angeles Times 1923.
New York Times 1927.
Yogananda 1927: 23– 24.
Sinclair’s Mental Radio (1931) does allude to the fact that Ostoja had had to travel
all the way to India to acquire his skills, but this appears only as an incidental aside.
