RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

1855 - 1936

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Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (also written Sriyuktesvara, Sri Yukteshwar) (Devanagari: श्रीयुक्तेश्वर गिरि) (10 May 1855 – 9 March 1936) is the monastic name of Priya Nath Karar (also spelled as Priya Nath Karada and Preonath Karar), an Indian monk and yogi, and the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Satyananda Giri. Born in Serampore, West Bengal, Sri Yukteswar was a Kriya yogi, a Jyotishi (Vedic astrologer), a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, an educator, author, and astronomer. He was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya of Varanasi and a member of the Giri branch of the Swami order. As a guru, he had two ashrams, one in Serampore and another in Puri, Odisha, between which he alternated his residence throughout the year as he trained disciples. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri is the 763rd most popular religious figure (up from 1,840th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from India (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 763 out of 3,187. Before him are Frances of Rome, Norbert of Xanten, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Victor of Aveyron, Albert of Brandenburg, and Nicolaus Zinzendorf. After him are Leonardo Sandri, Émile Benveniste, Ananias of Damascus, Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Antipope John XVI, and Gregory Thaumaturgus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 9. Before him are King C. Gillette, Andrew Mellon, Émile Verhaeren, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, and John Browning. After him are Percival Lowell, Ernest Chausson, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Paul Deschanel, Eleanor Marx, and Robert M. La Follette. Among people deceased in 1936, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 33. Before him are Karl Kraus, Premchand, Buenaventura Durruti, Andrija Mohorovičić, Moritz Schlick, and Antoine Meillet. After him are Georg Michaelis, Anne Sullivan, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Georgy Chicherin, and Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 121 out of 1,861. Before him are Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Tipu Sultan (1750), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Baji Rao I (1700), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), and Maharana Pratap (1540). After him are Rajendra Prasad (1884), A. R. Rahman (1966), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Samudragupta (335), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), and Pete Best (1941).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 10. Before him are Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486). After him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Radha (null), Mahinda (-285), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Guru Arjan (1563), and Guru Angad (1504).

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