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12 Jan 1863
Swami Vivekananda
Monk and disciple of Ramakrishna who introduced Vedānta and Yoga to a Western audience at the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, and founded the Ramakrishna Mission on his return. Born during Makar Saṅkrānti.
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5 Jan 1893
Paramahansa Yogananda
Monk who moved to the United States in 1920 and spent three decades teaching Kriyā Yoga there. His Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946, remains the book through which most Western readers first meet Indian spiritual practice.
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