Mukunda Lal Ghosh was born in Gorakhpur on January 5, 1893. Great saints predicted that his life would be extraordinary. Even as a little boy, Mukunda had a religious bent of mind. At seventeen, he met his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, through whose guidance Mukunda attained divine enlightenment. Sri Yukteswar gave him the sannyas name, Yogananda, and the title, Paramahansa.
Although Yoganandaji wanted to live as a hermit, he submitted to the desire ex-pressed by his Guru and his Param-paramguru, Mahavatar Babaji, that he should spread all over the world the ancient knowledge of Kriya Yoga: a spiritual science for realizing God and making Him a practical part of one's life. To accomplish his mission, Yoganandaji founded in 1917 the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.
Later, in 1920, he established in America an International Society called Self-Realization Fellowship.
Yoganandaji's sublime love of God inspired reciprocal love in the hearts of others; he came to be known as Premavatar: an incarnation of divine love. He taught that all men can know God personally, and that this is the only lasting cure for human suffering. As one of India's truly great spiritual masters, he did pioneering work abroad to establish a living link between East and West, and to demonstrate how vital it is for man to unite every action to the love and wisdom of God.
India paid formal tribute to her great son on the 25th anniversary of his Mahasamadhi by issusing a commemorative postage stamp.
This Amar Charitra Katha is based on Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, which is acclaimed all over the world as a classic in Yogic literature.
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