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      • The following year he founded the Vedanta Society, the first teaching institution for Indian philosophy in the United States. The society still exists, but Vivekananda spent only a few years in the West. Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home.
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  2. Nov 19, 2020 · Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home. “Here we had a teacher who came and basically dug his feet into the mud,” Eck said. Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in 1893...

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  3. Swami Vivekananda (/ ˈ s w ɑː m i ˌ v ɪ v eɪ ˈ k ɑː n ə n d ə /; Bengali: [ʃami bibekanɔndo] ⓘ; IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrendronatʰ dɔto]), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic ...

  4. Yogananda was the first major Indian teacher to settle in the US, and the first prominent Indian to be hosted in the White House (by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927); [7] his early acclaim led to him being dubbed "the 20th century's first superstar guru" by the Los Angeles Times. [8]

  5. Dec 1, 2020 · Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home. “Here we had a teacher who came and basically dug his feet into the mud,” Eck said. Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in 1893...

  6. Oct 6, 2022 · Unknown in America, the young Hindu man, named Vivekananda, was a revered spiritual teacher back home. By the time he left Chicago, he had accomplished his mission: to present Indian culture as...

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  7. Known also as Swami Yogananda, Paramhansa Yogananda was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, in January 1893, Yogananda intensely longed for God from his earliest childhood.

  8. Vivekananda is credited with being the first to bring the world of yoga across the ocean from India to the US. Vivekananda opened doors for other spiritual leaders like Paramahansa Yogananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar .