Hariharananda Giri

Hariharananda Giri (Bengali: স্বামী হরিহরানন্দ গিরী) (27 May 1907 – 3 December 2002), was an Indian yogi and guru who taught in India as well as in western countries.

He was born as Rabindranath Bhattacharya in Nadia district, West Bengal.

SriYukteshwar Giri taught him cosmic astrology, and entreated him to come and live in his Karar Ashram at Puri, in Odisha.

[1][4] He received the third Kriya initiation from Swami Satyananda Giri in 1941, the head of Karar Ashram and childhood friend of Paramahansa Yogananda.

[1][5][6] Hariharananda resided at the ashram he founded at Homestead, Florida (another international headquarters is in Orissa, India),[1] for several years prior to his death in Miami in December 2002[2] and was buried at Balighai, in Orissa, that same month.