Across from the school is Garpar Road, where Paramahansa Yogananda (family name Mukunda Lal Ghosh) used to live with his parents.

Satyananda studied at the Mitra Institution of Calcutta, and he knew Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Oriya which he learned while he was living at Puri with his Guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.

Yogananda began a school with seven children at Dihika, a small country site in Bengal, India.

A year later in 1918, Sir Manindra Chandra Nundy funded the school, and it was moved to Ranchi, India.

Satyananda donated his salaries of the entire period (twenty years) and saved Ranchi School.

Yukteswar Giri trained Satyananda at his Puri Karar Ashram in 1919 when they lived together and subsequently appointed him as the "leader of the East".

He had more than three thousand devotees in India and abroad, but his three disciples were Brahamachari Yogadananda (since deceased), Manabendra Of Guwahati (Assam) and Kalyan Sengupta (presently practising at Calcutta High Court).