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The meaning of the Sanskrit root of the word swami is "[he who is] one with his self" (swa stands for "self"),[3] and can roughly be translated as "he/she who knows and is master of himself/herself".[1] The term is often attributed to someone who has achieved mastery of a particular yogic system or demonstrated profound devotion (bhakti) to one or more Hindu gods.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology as:[4]

In modern Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Swami is also one of the 108 names for a sannyasi given in Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Gaudiya Kanthahara, along with Goswami, also traditionally used as an honorific title.[5]

Swami is also the surname of the Bairagi caste in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. In Bengali, the word (pronounced [ˈʃami]), while carrying its original meaning, also has the meaning of "husband" in another context. The word also means "husband" in Malay, in which it is spelled suami,[6] and in Khmer, Assamese and Odiya. The Thai word for "husband", sami (สามี) or swami (สวามี) is a cognate word.

The swami was born in India on December 26, 1893. In 1914, after graduating from Calcutta University, he joined the Ramakrishna Order of India and was initiated by Swami Brahmananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.

In 1923, Swami Prabhavananda came to the United States. After two years as assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of San Francisco, he established the Vedanta Society of Portland. In December 1929, he came to Los Angeles where he founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California the following year.

Swami Prabhavananda was a man of letters as well as a man of God. He wrote and translated a number of books with the object of making the spiritual classics of India available and understandable to Western readers. He was assisted on several of the projects by Christopher Isherwood or Frederick Manchester. His comprehensive knowledge of philosophy and religion attracted such disciples as Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard. His publications, which include the Bhagavad-Gita, The Upanishads, Breath of the Eternal, How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Pantanjali, The Eternal Companion, and The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta, continue to this day to capture interest and draw people to the Vedanta philosophy.

One time, a boy much larger than Kriyananda cornered him in his bedroom and began beating him and threatening to throw Kriyananda out the window. Kriyananda, however, remained calm and unafraid, and eventually the boy tired himself out and left. He never bothered Kriyananda again.

As a college student, Swami Kriyananda dedicated himself to the search for Truth and made several important discoveries. One was that, if he firmly believed in something, he could often make it come true, as long as it wasn't too far beyond present reality.

By adherence to principles and with their dedication to God, Ananda members were able to face many challenges that beset the community, including lawsuits and a fire that destroyed all but one house.Over the years, Swami Kriyananda founded several more communities, as well as teaching centers and meditation groups all across the world. He also wrote many books and pieces of music and lectured worldwide.

In his later years after passing on the duty of running the communities to Nayaswamis Jyotish and Devi, Swami Kriyananda traveled extensively between Italy, India, and America sharing Yogananda's teachings and initiating thousands into Kriya Yoga, Yogananda's main technique for attaining Self-Realization.

In 2009 Kriyananda founded the Nayaswami Order, similar in some ways to the Swami order of India, however it permits women and those with spouses and children to enter the order, as long as they are experienced meditators and deeply committed to God.Swami Kriyananda passed away on April 21, 2013 at one of Ananda's communities near Assisi, Italy, surrounded by his spiritual family. He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.

In his will, he named Nayaswami Jyotish as his spiritual successor. Nayaswami Jyotish and his wife Nayaswami Devi currently serve as Ananda's spiritual directors and have carried on Swami Kriyananda's work of traveling, lecturing, and helping to guide Ananda's communities worldwide.

The guru of Swami Kriyananda and the first spiritual teacher from India to make America his permanent home. He has initiated thousands of Westerners into Kriya Yoga and is the author of the famous Autobiography of a Yogi.

Ananda is a global movement founded by Swami Kriyananda in 1968, based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who showed how everyone can realize God in their daily lives as a tangible, loving reality.

A well-trained mind is the biggest resource of positive attitudes and success in our lives. swamiji has spent three-and-a-half decades studying and practicing the principles of mind management. The powerful techniques of mind management revealed by Swamiji are the elaborations of eternal truths of the Vedas that have helped thousands of people transform their minds and their lives by learning and applying these principles. A well-trained mind is the biggest resource of positive attitudes and success in our lives.

A well-trained mind is the biggest resource of positive attitudes and success in our lives. swamiji has spent three-and-a-half decades stydying and practicing the principles of mind management. The poweful techniques of mind management revealed by Swamiji are the elaborations of etrenal truths of the vedas that have helped thousands of people transform their minds and their lives by learning and applying these principles.

A well-trained mind is the biggest resource of positive attitudes and success in our lives. Swamiji has spent three-and-a-half decades studying and practicing the principles of mind management. The powerful techniques of mind management revealed by Swamiji are the elaborations of eternal truths of the vedas that have helped thousands of people transform their minds and their lives by learning and applying these principles.

For the last quarter of a century, Shree Swamiji has been traveling far and wide, awakening hundreds of thousands of seekers. Wherever Swamji goes, he attracts huge audiences. Hearing the profound secrets of the Vedas from him is a rare privilege, for he is able to explain the ancient esoteric knowledge with rigorous scientific logic, in the modern context. Using perfect logic, and a simple-yet-scientific approach, Swamiji offers new ways of understanding and applying the knowledge of the scriptures in our daily lives. The hallmark of his lectures is the ease with which he dispels various myths and misnomers associated with the various paths of God-realization.