Yukteswar Giri: 1 definition

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Yukteswar Giri (1855-1936) is the monastic name of Priya Nath Karar, the guru of Satyananda Giri and Paramahansa Yogananda. Yukteswar was an educator, astronomer, a Jyotisha (Vedic astrologer), a yogi, and a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Bible. He was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya of Varanasi and a member of the Giri branch of the swami order. Yogananda considered Yukteswar as Jnanavatar, or "Incarnation of Wisdom".

Yukteswar Giri (Bengali: শ্রী যুক্তেশ্বর গিরী) is also written yuktesvara, Sri Yukteswar.

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