Yukteshwar Giri : 10th May 1855 – 9th March 1936
Sri Yukteshwar Giri was the disciple of Lahari Mahasya and the guru of Paramahamsa Yogananda. Sri Yukteswar was a Kriya yogi, a Vedic astrologer, a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, an educator, and an author. He had two ashrams, one in Serampore and another in Puri.
In 1894, while attending the Kumbha Mela in Allahabad, he met Sriguru Babaji, who asked him to write a book comparing Hindu scriptures and the Christian bible. Sri Yukteswar completed the requested book in 1894, naming it Kaivalya Darsanam, or The Holy Science.
He had only a few long-term disciples, but in 1910, the young Mukunda Lal Ghosh would become Sri Yukteswar’s most well known disciple, eventually spreading the teachings of Kriya Yoga to the west as Paramahamsa Yogananda.
