11 Facts About Satyananda Giri

Satyananda Giri, is the monastic name of Manamohan Mazumder, an Indian monk and a monastic disciple of Kriya Yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.

Satyananda Giri was a close childhood friend of, and brother-disciple to, Paramahansa Yogananda.

Acharya Swami Satyananda Giri was born to Mohinimohan Mazumder and Tarabasini Devi at Malkha Nagar of Bikrampore, undivided Bengal, currently Bangladesh, on 17 November 1896.

Satyananda Giri then entered into Giri branch of the Swami Order, of which his guru Sri Yukteswar was a part.

Satyananda Giri joined the Ranchi Brahmacharya School which Yogananda started and his close friends, Dhirananda and Satyananda Giri, supported.

At Yogananda's request, Satyananda Giri became the Principal and Secretary and ran the school from 1922 to 1942.

Teachers of the school resolved to ask help from Yogananda and accordingly Satyananda Giri wrote to him for help, but he was himself in financial trouble in the USA.

Satyananda Giri donated his salaries of the entire period and saved Ranchi School.

Satyananda Giri appointed Satyananda at his Puri Karar Ashram as the "Ashram Swami" for the Puri Karar Ashram.

Satyananda Giri lived in the hermitages at the Karar Ashram, Puri, at Ranchi, and at Sevayatan.

Satyananda Giri had more than three thousand devotees in India and abroad, but his three disciples were Brahamachari Yogadananda, Manabendra Of Guwahati and Kalyan Sengupta.