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Today’s stamp of the day is dedicated to Swami Paramahansa Yogananda.Who passed away this day in 1952.India Post had released a stamp to honor him on 7th March.1977.Swami Paramahansa Yogananda was founder of Self-realization Society in America
Yogananda (Depicted On Stamp Of India 1977) was born in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh (See The Geography Tag For The Stamp) in a Bengali kshatriya family. From his early days his earliest days young Mukunda's awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond the ordinary.
In 1910, at the age of 17 he met and became a disciple of the revered Swami Sree Yukteshwar Giri. In the hermitage of this Yoga master he spent the better part of the next ten years.After he graduated from Calcutta University in 1915, he took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order, at which time he received the name Yogananda (signifying bliss, ananda, through divine union, yoga).
In 1917, Yogananda founded a school for boys in Dihika, West Bengal that combined modern educational techniques with yoga training and spiritual ideals.In 1918 the school relocated to Ranchi.This school was rechristened as Yogoda Satsanga Society of India
Yogananda was the first Hindu teacher of yoga to make his permanent home in America. He lived there from 1920—1952, interrupted by an extended trip abroad in 1935-1936.
n 1935, he returned to India to visit Yukteswar and to help establish his Yogoda Satsanga work in India. During this visit, as told in his autobiography, he met with Mahatma Gandhi, the Bengali saint Anandamoyi Ma, Nobel-winning physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, and several disciples of Yukteswar's Guru Lahiri Mahasaya
After returning to America, he continued to lecture, write, and establish churches in southern California. During his last days leading up to his death, he started hinting that it was time for him to leave the world.On March 7th.1952 he passed away
Related Links :
- Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) website : Click Here
- Yogoda Satsanga Society of India : Click Here
- Read Works Of Yogananda : Click Here
First Day Cover Of The Stamp Of India On Paramahansa Yogananda
| Stamp Number | NYA |
| Stamp Name | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| Stamp Denomination | 25p |
| Stamp Issue Date | 07/03/1977 |
| Stamp Currency | Paise |
| Stamp Type | Deep Orange |
| Stamp Perforation | 13 1/2 |
| Stamp Paper Used | Unwatermarked Adhesive Coated Stamp Paper |
| Stamp Printed At | ISP |
| Number Printed | 3 Million |
| Number In Sheet | 35 |
| Printing Process | Photogravure |
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