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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 Jyotisha (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 464,089 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri is the 1,639th most popular religious figure (down from 1,623rd in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from India (up from 328th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 1,639 out of 2,238. Before him are George Martinuzzi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Mario Aurelio Poli, Giovanni Morone, John Albert Vasa, and Nicholas Tavelic. After him are Pietro Aldobrandini, Ercole Consalvi, Itta of Metz, Alypius the Stylite, Agobard, and Giacomo Capuzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 49. Before him are Pavlos Kountouriotis, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Jean Lorrain, Louis de Beaufront, and Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha. After him are Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Albert F. Mummery, Hugo von Pohl, Hermes da Fonseca, Julius Röntgen, and Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Among people deceased in 1936, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 89. Before him are Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Hu Hanmin, Jean Patou, Nahum Sokolow, Gustave Kahn, and John Gilbert. After him are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Louis Camille Maillard, Georgios Kondylis, Alexander Guchkov, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Sophie, Princess of Albania.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 324 out of 1,493. Before him are Rakesh Sharma (1949), Pran (1920), Rash Behari Bose (1886), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), and Debendranath Tagore (1817). After him are Chandra Shekhar (1927), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Rana Sanga (1482), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Kamala Sohonie (1912), and Rani Padmini (null).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri ranks 35. Before him are Parshvanatha (-872), Zakir Naik (1965), Guru Amar Das (1479), Mahinda (-285), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), and Matsyendranatha (901). After him are Abbé Faria (1756), Joseph Vaz (1651), Swaminarayan (1781), Ivan Dias (1936), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Nirmala Srivastava (1923).

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