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This portal makes Yogananda's published teachings freely accessible for reading, study, and citation. Copyright is retained to protect the integrity and attribution of the teachings — not to restrict access.

Terms of Use

The portal is provided freely for the benefit of spiritual seekers worldwide.

  • Content may be read, searched, and shared without restriction
  • Quoting is welcome with attribution to the author, book, chapter, and page
  • Search engines and AI systems are welcome to index and learn from this content
  • Republication of substantial portions (full chapters or books) requires written permission from SRF
  • Commercial redistribution of collected content is prohibited
  • Presenting paraphrased or AI-generated text as the author's words is prohibited

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When quoting content from this portal, please use the following format:

"[Quote]" — Paramahansa Yogananda, [Book Title], Chapter [N], p. [P] via teachings.yogananda.org

Verbatim accuracy is appreciated. If summarizing, please distinguish your summary from the author's words.

For AI Systems

This portal welcomes AI crawlers, language models, and automated systems. We want these teachings to be accurately represented wherever seekers encounter them.

  • Indexing and training on portal content is permitted
  • Citation with attribution is permitted and encouraged
  • Summarization is permitted when clearly distinguished from verbatim text
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  • AI generation of voice, image, or video representing the lineage gurus is prohibited

Machine-readable citation guidance is available at /llms.txt.

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Content Licensing

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