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Welcome to the July - August 2015 edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month, we commemorate the centenary of Paramahansa Yogananda's initiation into the Swami Order.
Paramahansa Yogananda's Sannyas Centennial Paramahansa Yogananda Honoured by Indian High Officials as Train Renamed "Kriya Yoga Express" International Day of Yoga 2015: "Actualizing the Infinite Potentials Within Us All" YSS Serves at the Nabakalebar Rath Yatra in Puri
Sannyas: A Life of Monastic Consecration One hundred years ago, in July 1915, Paramahansa Yogananda was initiated into India's ancient swami monastic order when he received the vows of sannyas (renunciation from the world) from his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, in Serampore, India. This event not only marked a turning point in the life of the twenty-two-year-old Mukunda Lal Ghosh – who at that moment became Swami Yogananda Giri – but presaged his influence on the awakening global spirituality of the 20th century and beyond, not least because of the monastic tradition he established as part of his lasting legacy.
In conjunction with the first-ever International Day of Yoga on June 21, Paramahansa Yogananda was honoured by the renaming of an express train linking Ranchi – the city where he established his "How-to-Live" School and ashram in 1918 – and Kolkata's Howrah Station. As reported in an article appearing in the June 25 online edition of The Times of India, the train is now called "Kriya Yoga Express."
On Sunday, June 21, people around the world gathered to celebrate the United Nations’ first ever International Day of Yoga. The result was widely acknowledged as the largest number of people engaged in yoga at one time in recorded history.
Puri, also known as Jagannath Puri, is one of the holiest places of pilgrimages in India. It is famous for the Ratha Yatra — “festival of chariots," an annual festival when the deities Jagannath Balabhadra, and Subhadra, are brought out of the temple and placed in a chariot procession, allowing the public to have Darshan.
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 Renunciation is not negative but positive. It isn't the giving up of anything except misery. One should not think of renunciation as a path of sacrifice. Rather it is a divine investment, by which our few paise of self-discipline will yield a million spiritual rupees. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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