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Yogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a devout family. According to his younger brother, Sananda, from his earliest years young Mukunda's awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond the ordinary. In his youth he sought out many of India's Hindu sages and saints, hoping to find an illuminated teacher to guide him in his spiritual quest. In 1917 Paramahansa Yogananda began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live' school for boys, where modern educational methods were combined with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals.In 1920 he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals convening in Boston. His address to the Congress, on 'The Science of Religion,' was enthusiastically received.For the next several years he lectured and taught across the United States. His discourses taught of the unity of the Original teachings of Jesus Christ and the original Yoga taught by Bhagavan Krishna.In 1920 he founded Self-Realization Fellowship and in 1925 established in Los Angeles, California, the international headquarters for SRF.