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===Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India===

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Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) is a non-profit religious organization founded by Yogananda in 1917. In countries outside the Indian subcontinent it is known as the Self-Realization Fellowship. Yogananda's dissemination of his teachings is continued only through this organization – the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS).<ref name="Goldberg 2012"/><ref name=SRF>[https://yogananda.org/lineage-and-leadership About SRF: Lineage and Leadership] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520044756/https://yogananda.org/lineage-and-leadership |date=May 20, 2022 }}. yogananda.org</ref> Yogananda founded the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in 1917 and then expanded it in 1920 to the United States naming it the Self-Realization Fellowship. In 1935, he legally incorporated it in the U.S. to serve as his instrument for the preservation and worldwide dissemination of his teachings.<ref>{{wikisource-inline|SRF Articles of Incorporation 1935}}</ref> Yogananda expressed this intention again in 1939 in his magazine ''Inner Culture for Self-Realization'' that he published through his organization:

<blockquote> Paramahansa Swami Yogananda renounced all his ownership rights in the Self-Realization Fellowship when it was incorporated as a nonprofit religious organization under the laws of California, March 29, 1935. At that time he turned over to the Fellowship all of his rights to and income from sale of his books, writings, magazine, lectures, classes, property, automobiles and all other possessions...<ref>{{cite book |title=Inner Culture for Self-Realization|date=1939 |volume=12 |page=30}}</ref></blockquote>

SRF/YSS is headquartered in Los Angeles and has grown to include more than 500 temples and centers around the world. It has members in over 175 countries including the [[Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yogananda.org/locations|title=Locations of SRF/YSS centers & temples|access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> In India and surrounding countries, Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings are disseminated by YSS which has more than 100 centers, retreats, and ashrams.<ref name="SRF"/> [[Rajarsi Janakananda]] was chosen by Yogananda to become the President of SRF/YSS when he was gone.<ref name=Melton/><ref name="yogi">Self-Realization Fellowship (1996). ''Rajarsi Janakananda: A Great Western Yogi''. Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers. {{ISBN|0-87612-019-2}}.</ref> [[Daya Mata]], a religious leader and a direct disciple of Yogananda who was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda, was head of Self-Realization Fellowship /Yogoda Satsanga Society of India from 1955 to 2010.<ref name="DENNIS HEVESI"/> According to Linda Johnsen, the new wave today is women, for major Indian gurus have passed on their spiritual mantle to women including Yogananda to the American-born Daya Mata<ref>{{cite book |first= Arvind |last=Sharma|title=Today's Women in World Religions|year=1994|publisher=SUNY Press}}</ref> and then to Mrinalini Mata. [[Mrinalini Mata]], a direct disciple of Yogananda, was the president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship /Yogoda Satsanga Society of India from January 9, 2011, until her death on August 3, 2017. She, too, was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda to help guide the dissemination of his teachings after his death.<ref name=SRF/> On August 30, 2017, [[Brother Chidananda]] was elected as the next president in a unanimous vote by the SRF Board of Directors.<ref name="LAT-2017">yogananda.org {{cite web |url=http://www.yogananda-srf.org/NewsArchive/2017/SRF_Announces_New_President.aspx |title=Brother Chidananda Elected President and Spiritual Head of SRF/YSS |access-date=September 3, 2017}}</ref> Yogananda incorporated the Self-Realization Fellowship as a nonprofit organization and reassigned all of his property including Mt. Washington to the corporation, thereby protecting his assets.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foxan |first1=Anya |title=Biography of a Yogi |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn =978-0190668051}}</ref>

On November 15, 2017, the President of India, [[Ram Nath Kovind]] visited the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India's Ranchi Ashram on its centennial anniversary in honor of the official release of the Hindi translation of Yogananda's book ''God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita''.<ref>{{cite news | title=President of India Ram Nath Kovind visited Ranchi | location=India| date= November 15, 2017 | url=http://jharkhandstatenews.com/section/photo-story/1176}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Mishra, Sudhir Kumar | title=Ashram charms First Citizen | newspaper=Telegraph India| date=November 16, 2017 | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/jharkhand/ashram-charms-first-citizen-186232| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318054109/https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/jharkhand/ashram-charms-first-citizen-186232| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=President of India Visits YSS Ranchi Ashram – God Talks With Arjuna in Hindi Is Released|url=https://yogananda.org/blog/president-of-india-visits-yss-ranchi-ashram|date=November 15, 2017|publisher=yogananda.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=President, Ram Nath Kovind addresses at Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in Ranchi| location=India| agency=Newspoint Tv | newspaper=Amirapress.com| date=November 16, 2017 | url=http://www.amirapress.com/video/t_EYRTiB_QnwQ}}</ref>