

He has written over 90 books and 400 pieces written over 90 books and 400 pieces of uplifting music. In 1968 he founded a spiritual cooperative community which has expanded to eight communities and ashrams in the U.S., Europe, and India.

Kriyananda is the founder of Ananda sangha a worldwide organization which disseminates yoganada teaching. In 1950, yoganada gave him the task of editing his explanation of omar Khayyam Rubiayat a responsibility for which his disciple spent 44 years preparing himself. Donald Walter) has been a close direct disciple of paramhansa yogananda since 1948. Today hundreds of thousands of seekers around the world consider themselves to be his disciples. He spent his later life teachings writing and directing an expanding worldwide work. During the early years he crisscrossed the united states extensively on lecture tours during which many thousands thronged to hear the yoga master form India. He lived in America from 1920 until his death in 1952. Yogananda was the first true yoga master to settle in the west. His autobiography of a yogi, published in 1946 and printed in more than 20 languages has touched the hearts of millions and has been rated the best-selling autobiography of all time. Paramhansa Yogannada was one of the best known spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Unavailable in book form since its first penning over 60 years ago the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam explained available at last edited by one of yogananda close disciples a bestselling author in his own right swami kriyananda. This book contains the essence of that great revelation. The vast inner fortress of golden spiritual treasures stood open to y gaze. I suddenly beheld the walls of its outer meaning crumble away. Now after more than eight centuries paramhansa yogananda one of the great mystics of our time a master of yoga and the author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a yogi explains the mystery behind omar famous poem. As for what his quatrains actually mean most of them have remained a mystery in the east as much as in the west. Even there however the knowing is based on who and what omar Khayyam was: a sage and mystic. In the east his quatrains enjoy a very different reputation: they are known as a deep allegory of the soul romance with God. Omar Khayyam’s famous poem, the Rubaiyat of omar Khayyam is loved by westerners as a hymn of praise to sensual delight.
