Yogananda said that Swami Sri Yukteswar was a gyanvatar, an incarnation of wisdom.

Born to a wealthy business man and his wife on May 10, 1855, in Serampore, India, he was given the name Priya Nath Karar. In time he became a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, whom he called “the greatest yogi I ever knew.”

The great saint Mahavatar Babaji asked Sri Yukteswar to write a book on…