Lahiri Mahasaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lahiri Mahasaya

Indian yogi and guru

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1828

Place of Birth: Bengal

Date of Death: 26-Sep-1895

Profession: teacher, guru

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Lahiri Mahasaya

  • Shyama Charan Lahiri (30 September 1828 – 26 September 1895), best known as Lahiri Mahasaya, was an Indian yogi, guru and a disciple of Mahavatar Babaji.
  • He was also popularly known as Yogiraj and Kashi Baba.
  • He revived the yogic science of Kriya Yoga when he learned it from Mahavatar Babaji in 1861.
  • Lahiri Mahasaya was also the guru of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
  • Mahasaya is a Sanskrit, spiritual title translated as 'large-minded'.
  • He was unusual among Indian holy people in that he was a householder — marrying, raising a family, and working as an accountant for the Military Engineering Department of the British Indian government.
  • Lahiri lived with his family in Varanasi rather than in a temple or monastery.
  • He achieved a substantial reputation among 19th century Hindu religionists. He became known in the West through Paramahansa Yogananda, a disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri, and through Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi.
  • Yogananda wrote that Lahiri was chosen by Mahavatar Babaji to reintroduce the lost practice of Kriya Yoga to the world; as such, Yogananda considered him a Yogavatar, or "Incarnation of Yoga." Lahiri's disciples included both of Yogananda's parents as well as Yogananda's own guru.
  • Lahiri Mahasaya prophesied that the infant Yogananda would become a yogi, and that "as a spiritual engine, he will carry many souls to God's kingdom.'"Trailanga Swami, the famous saint of Varanasi, had praised Lahiri Mahasaya in the following words, “Lahiri Mahasaya is like a divine kitten, remaining wherever the Cosmic Mother has placed him.
  • While dutifully playing the part of a worldly man, he has received that perfect Self-realization which I have sought by renouncing everything – even my loincloth!”

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