“Yogananda”???? Seriously????
Her name is missing a few apostrophes.
We have lost our effing minds.
When I lived in CA, I knew someone who was a follower of Yogananda, a yogi guru popular in the US in the 70s. He died in the 50s, but he had numerous followers.
My friend took us to visit a commune in the foothills. It was named Ananda, and the American “guru” (and founder) had picked a similar name for himself.
He didn’t live there, but lived with his mother, who was a Mary Kay saleswoman who had earned a pink Cadillac. So he would come up once a week or so in her pink Cadillac and step out in his guru outfit. Truly silly, but he had a lot of followers and I think was living fairly well off the commune.
Many lonely people, especially women, were suckered in by these frauds in the 1970s. I would suspect that the parents (probably the mother) of our current “Yogananda” were among them.
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