Paramahansa Yogananda
Date of Birth January 5, 1893(1893-01-05) Place of birth
Gorakhpur,
Uttar Pradesh,
India Birth Mukunda Lal Ghosh Date of death 7 March 1952 (aged 59) Place of death Los Angeles, California, U.S
Bodily incorruptibility
As reported in
Time Magazine on
August 4, 1952, Harry T. Rowe, Los Angeles Mortuary Director of the
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in
Glendale, California where Yogananda's body was embalmed,
[27][28] stated in a notarized letter:
The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramahansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience.... No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death.... No indication of mold was visible on his skin, and no visible drying up took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one.... No odor of decay emanated from his body at any time....
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