27-03-2017: Yogoda Satsanga Society of India A commemorative postage stamp

This year marks the Centennial Anniversary of Yogoda Satsanga Society Of India – one of the nation’s most distinguished spiritual institutions – personally Yogananda (1893-1952), who was a world-renowed pioneer in spreading India’s ancient science and philosophy of yoga meditation all over the earth. It was in 1917 that Sri Sri Paramahansa yogananda, acknowledged as one of modern India’s greatest saints, and author of the internationally renowed spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, began his worldwide work with the establishment of a yoga-themed boy’s school in Dihika, West Bengal, marking the birth of Yogoda Satsanga Society. yogoda, a word coined by Paramahansa Yogananda, is derived from Yoga, union; and da, “that which imparts”; the mission of this”How-to- Live” School was to combine the spiritual ideals of the ancient rishis with modern educational methods.