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400 pieces of music, which altogether have sold over three million copies. A few of the books have been published in 28 languages and a few are sold in 90 countries. Donald Walters was born on May 19, 1926, in Teleajen, Romania to American parents, Ray P. In September 1948, in New York, Walters read Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, a book he says transformed his life. By September 12, Walters had decided to leave his old life behind, and soon afterwards traveled cross-country by bus to southern California to become one of Yogananda’s disciples. As recounted in his autobiography, The New Path, Walters, twenty-two years old at this point, took up residence with other monks at SRF’s mother center headquarters located on top of Mount Washington, Los Angeles. On March 7, 1952, Paramahansa Yogananda was a speaker at a banquet for the visiting Indian Ambassador to the U.

Binay Ranjan Sen, and his wife at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. While giving his speech, Yogananda suddenly dropped to the floor and died. In 1953, the SRF published Walter’s book, Stories of Mukunda, and in 1960 an LP album with him singing Yogananda’s Cosmic Chants, entitled Music for Meditation. Every swami belongs to the ancient monastic order which was organized in its present form by Shankara.