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Spiritual leaders have given immense contribution to the popularity in the field of Yoga. Many of them had written treatise on Yoga. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), the founder of Ramakrishna Mission is regarded as a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world, mainly in America and Europe. Among a number of books authored by him, Rajayoga mainly deals with Yoga philosophy. commentary written on the Yogasutra of Patanjali of Patanjali. .233 There is a Swami Sivananda Saraswati² (1887-1963), the founder of Divine Life Society, developed a method of the Yoga of Synthesis. He also founded the 'Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy'. 77

Yogananda 234 (1893-1952), the author of Paramahamsa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi, is the founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship (Yogoda Satsang Soceity in India). The science of kriyayoga is the basis of Yogananda's teachings. Kriyayoga is 'union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite (kriya). It was passed down through the guru lineage. Mahavatar Babaji taught kriyayoga to Lahiri Mahashaya, who taught it to his disciple, Yukteswar Giri, Yogananda's teacher. Autobiography of a Yogi gives a general description of 'kriyayoga'- the kriyayogin mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centres (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution, that half-minute of kriyayoga equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment. 78