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khecarī mudrā, 93, 134, 135, 142, 147
King, Richard, 15
Krishna, 26, 42, 146, 151, 169, 177
Krishnamacarya, Tirumalai, 142, 189
kriyā, 93, 95, 134– 136, 143,
204n24, 204n25
Kriya Yoga, 125, 163
and āsana, 142– 143
in Autobiography of a Yogi, 170, 177
and institutionalization, 119– 121
origins of, 92– 95, 209n46
and the Self- Realization Fellowship,
141, 142
structure of, 133– 135, 201n13, 204n9
Yogananda’s adaptation of, 105, 129,
130, 135– 136
versus Yogoda, 144– 146
Kriyananda, Swami, 18, 66, 111, 112, 135,
142, 193n44, 203n2, 210n16
kuṇḍalinī, 51, 135
Lahiri Mahasaya, 19, 158
as householder Yogi, 152
initiation into Kriya Yoga by Babaji,
92– 93, 119– 120, 134
other disciples of, 100, 133, 142, 166
powers attributed to, 93, 112
resemblance to Babaji, 176
resurrection of, 170, 172– 173, 175
and Sri Yukteswar, 94
Yogananda’s contact with, 95, 98, 163
Lamont, Peter, 33, 34
Lebensreform, 131
levitation, 26, 32, 33, 57, 72, 90, 93, 94,
112, 136, 176
Lewis, Minott W., 103, 104, 112, 113
lifetrons, 86, 88, 145, 171– 175
light
astral, 73
and luminiferous ether, 63– 64,
82– 83, 198n18
as primordial matter, 83– 88, 158, 161,
170, 174, 175
and subtle body, 134, 174
Light of Asia (1879). See Arnold, Edwin
live burial, 32, 115, 116, 118
Lorr, Benjamin, 180
Los Angeles, 2, 47, 90, 104, 106, 108–
109, 116, 120, 123, 151, 182
Love, Robert, 48– 49
love cult, 108, 109MacLaine, Shirley, 105, 181, 182
magnetism, 32, 66– 69, 84, 108, 112–113.
See also hypnotism and Mesmerism
as electromagnetism, 59, 64, 71– 72,
77, 82– 83
mahābhūtas, 61, 77, 171, 172, 197n9
mahāmudrā, 134
Mahatma, 38, 44, 69– 76, 82, 152, 185
mango growing trick, 32, 75, 76
mantra, 25, 48, 132, 136, 145,
146, 204n24
Marvel, 187– 188
Mataji, 176
meditation
and āsanas, 129, 147
and Kriya Yoga, 136, 145, 209n46
and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 35
and the Self- Realization
Fellowship, 18
and the Vedanta Society, 45
and Vivekananda, 40, 42, 51, 77, 81
and will, 148
yoga as, 21, 23, 38, 42, 125,
130, 193n2
Yoga Sūtras and, 21, 61
and Yogananda, 99, 100, 112, 114,
166– 167, 203n2
Yogis engaging in, 25, 27, 29, 53, 87,
133, 173
and Yogoda, 149, 151