Swami Sri Yukteswar was born on May 10,1855, at Serampore in Bengal, India. Sri Yukteswar was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya and attained the spiritual stature of a Jnanavatar, or incarnation of wisdom. Sri Yukteswar recognized that a synthesis of the spiritual heritage of the East with the science and technology of the West would do much to alleviate the material, psychological, and spiritual suffering of the modern world. These ideas were crystallized by his remarkable encounter with Mahavatar Babaji, the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya, in 1894. It was to Swami Sri Yukteswar that Paramahansa Yogananda came as a youth. Under Sri Yukteswar’s spiritual training and discipline, Sri Yogananda was prepared to begin his worldwide mission in the West. Swami Sri Yukteswar entered mahasamadhi on March 9, 1936. His book Kaivalya Darsanam, The Holy Science has been published in English and Hindi by Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and is available on Amazon.in