Place · religious order headquarters · United States
Self-Realization Fellowship
The Mount Washington headquarters from which Paramahansa Yogananda ran the Self-Realization Fellowship from 1925, the first durable Indian religious institution in the United States, and the base from which Autobiography of a Yogi was published in 1946.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 34.087, -118.210
Worth knowing
The book has never gone out of print and did more than any single work to make yoga and Indian devotional practice legible to Americans. Steve Jobs is said to have reread it annually and had it given to everyone at his memorial.
Connections (1)
- Monastic foundationParamahansa Yogananda
Yogananda came to Boston in 1920 as India's delegate to a congress of religious liberals and did not go home, building the Self-Realization Fellowship from a former hotel on Mount Washington in Los Angeles — the first Indian religious institution to take permanent root in the United States. Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946, has never gone out of print and did more than any other single book to make Indian devotional practice legible to Americans.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Self-Realization Fellowship”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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