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My experience with Yogananda.

  Here we are in the second decade of the 21st-century. It just seems like yesterday  that we were celebrating N'SnycThe Backstreet Boys and Christina Auguilera,  not to forget Britney Spears either. The 90s was a transitional period for me in more ways than one,  I discovered meditation  I saw my independence  and the 90s seem to be a year of growing up for myself.  I was attending Trent University as a part-time student  and left before the year started to go to a Hindu monastery in California,  well in all honesty it was part Christian as well I know that might sound a little bit confusing. There is a new movie out called the "Awake" on the life of Paramahansa Yogananda  which is currently playing on Netflix.  In the 1990s I believe that I needed a guru.  I had some friends in Peterborough and one of the friends had similar thoughts as myself so we went out on a spiritual quest sort of.  My quest took me to California.  Before I left for California I had read a book fr