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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri has received more than 514,283 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri is the 1,840th most popular religious figure (down from 1,625th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from India (down from 321st in 2019) and the 37th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 1,840 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, Peter Turkson, Alexander of Bergamo, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Joseph Cafasso, and Adolf Bertram. After him are Kurt Koch, Anno II, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, Conrad of Parzham, Polycarpus II of Byzantium, and Shelah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 51. Before him are Albert F. Mummery, James S. Sherman, David Bruce, Hermes da Fonseca, Paul Émile Appell, and Jean Lorrain. After him are Princess Marie of Prussia, Marie Corelli, Emil Paur, Julius Röntgen, Rodolphe Lindt, and Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Among people deceased in 1936, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 100. Before him are Juliette Adam, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ivan Smirnov, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Alexander Guchkov, and Fatma Aliye Topuz. After him are Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Oscar Wisting, Bhikaiji Cama, Karl Buresch, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Walther Wever.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 363 out of 1,861. Before him are Salima Sultan Begum (1539), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Asima Chatterjee (1917), and Lahiri Mahasaya (1828). After him are C. R. Rao (1920), Skandagupta (500), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Rana Sanga (1482), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Girija Prasad Koirala (1924).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 37. Before him are Swaminarayan (1781), Tilopa (928), Inayat Khan (1882), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abbé Faria (1756), and Nirmala Srivastava (1923). After him are Guru Har Krishan (1656), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Joseph Vaz (1651), Ivan Dias (1936), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), and Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805).

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