Awake Minute 37: Swami Dhirananda aka Basu Kumar Bagchi

Basu Kumar Bagchi (Swami Dhirananda) and Mukunda Lal Ghosh (Paramahansa Yogananda) grew up together, serving together to establish spiritual sangas, libraries, and schools in their youth.  They worked very closely during the formative years for Ranchi School (Brahmacharya Vidyalaya). The early success of Boston and Los Angeles would have been difficult to attain without (Swami Dhirananda). This minute focusses on the positives, before things took a sour turn for the relationship of these two childhood friends. 0:00 Preamble; 1:53 How Yogananda met Dhirananda; 6:58 The first time they worked together; 10:34 Pictures of Yogananda, Dhirananda and Satyananda; 13:34 Yogananda becoming Dhirananda’s Guru; 18:33 Did Dhirananda work on the book The Science of Religion?; 23:10 Yogananda called upon Dhirananda or Satyananda to come to America; 25:59 Do you have a meditation spot at home?; 33:57 Why did Yogananda call Dhirananda to LA?; 41:12 SRF retreats in Brazil.