Yukteswar Giri

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Yukteswar Giri


Born
in Serampore, India
May 10, 1855

Died
March 09, 1936

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Yukteswar was an educator, astronomer, a Jyotisha (Vedic astrologer), a yogi, and a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Bible.

Yukteswar's teacher guru, who guided his spiritual development, was Lahiri Mahasaya.

In 1894, Lahiri Mahasaya's guru, Mahavatar Babaji, asked Yogteswar to write a book on the underlying harmony between Christian and Hindu scriptures. Yukteswar's book 'The Holy Science' was thus written.

Yukteswar took on many disciples. Most famously, he was the beloved guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought Yoga to the West through moving to America, and through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi , which mentions Yukteswar extensively.

Another of Yukteswar's disciples, Satyeswarananda Giri , also wrote yogic books at the encour
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The Holy Science

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“The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom. The ensuing effect is the idea of particles— the innumerable atoms, pair a or anu. These four — the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom — are therefore one and the same, and substantially nothing but mere ideas.”
Sri Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science

“When love appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and, invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters - the germs of disease - by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind.”
Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science

“When the carnivorous animal finds prey, he boldly seizes the prey and greedily laps the jetting blood. On the contrary, the herbivorous animal refuses his natural food, leaving it untouched, if it is sprinkled with a little blood.

In men we find they cannot bear even the sight of [animal] killings. Slaughterhouses are always recommended to be removed far from the towns. Can flesh then be considered the natural food of man, when both his eyes and his nose are so much against it, unless deceived by flavors of spices, salt and sugar?”
Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science