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Kriya Yoga‎

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Hello! The three "references" you have provided were all written by Paramahamsa Harirananda himself. They are not reliable, third-party, published sources and are, therefore, unacceptable. You should provide published references written by other people, and those "other people" should not be connected to Hariharananda, his teachings, or organization in any way. This will guarantee the impartiality of their reports.

You also keep on removing the citation, wikify, and neutrality tags even though the article is still a far cry from one based on reliable references, wikified, and neutral. For example, claims that Hariharananda "was instrumental in reviving the bhakti movement in India," was "God-realized," "had already memorized all the puja mantras of Hinduism at age four-and-a-half," etc. etc. don't belong in an encyclopedia, unless you are able to source them using reliable third-party materials.

Lastly, Hariharananda's claim of being a disciple of Sri Yukteswar is rejected by just about everyone else except his own followers. It is generally regarded as a lie in the entire Kriya Yoga community (in which followers of Hariharananda are viewed as outcasts due to Hariharananda's bad reputation), in fact books and websites like this one abound. Self-Realization Fellowship and Ananda Sangha, the two biggest Kriya Yoga organizations in the world maintain that Hariharananda only came to the scene in the 1940s (when Sri Yukteswar was already dead) and that he was a brahmachari of Yogoda Satsanga Society, who also never met Yogananda in person (have you seen any photograph of them together?), that later broke away. I suggest that you read Swami Satyeswarananda Giri's Kriya: Finding the True Path and Sriyukteswar: A Biography, the latter has notes of Swami Satyananda Giri's testimonial regarding the claims of Hariharananda.

If there are no reliable, third-party, published sources on Hariharananda then it could mean that he is not notable to merit an article in an encyclopedia. The tags have been there for a long time and the article is still a shameful mess, if you can't come up with any reliable, third-party, published sources in the following days I may have to nominate it for deletion. – Shannon Rose (talk) 21:39, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 == [[Paramahamsa Hariharananda]] ==
+Hello! The three "references" you have provided were all written by Paramahamsa Harirananda himself. They are not [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources|reliable, third-party, published sources]] and are, therefore, unacceptable. You should provide published references written by other people, and those "other people" should not be connected to Hariharananda, his teachings, or organization in any way. This will guarantee the impartiality of their reports.
+You also keep on removing the citation, wikify, and neutrality tags even though the article is still a far cry from one based on reliable references, wikified, and neutral. For example, claims that Hariharananda "was instrumental in reviving the ''bhakti'' movement in India," was "God-realized," "had already memorized all the puja mantras of Hinduism at age four-and-a-half," etc. etc. don't belong in an encyclopedia, unless you are able to source them using reliable third-party materials.
+Lastly, Hariharananda's claim of being a disciple of Sri Yukteswar is rejected by just about everyone else except his own followers. It is generally regarded as a lie in the entire Kriya Yoga community (in which followers of Hariharananda are viewed as outcasts due to Hariharananda's bad reputation), in fact books and websites like [http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Yharihara.htm this one] abound. Self-Realization Fellowship and Ananda Sangha, the two biggest Kriya Yoga organizations in the world maintain that Hariharananda only came to the scene in the 1940s (when Sri Yukteswar was already dead) and that he was a brahmachari of Yogoda Satsanga Society, who also never met Yogananda in person (have you seen any photograph of them together?), that later broke away. I suggest that you read Swami Satyeswarananda Giri's ''Kriya: Finding the True Path'' and ''Sriyukteswar: A Biography'', the latter has notes of Swami Satyananda Giri's testimonial regarding the claims of Hariharananda.
+If there are no [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources|reliable, third-party, published sources]] on Hariharananda then it could mean that he is not notable to merit an article in an encyclopedia. The tags have been there for a long time and the article is still a shameful mess, if you can't come up with any [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources|reliable, third-party, published sources]] in the following days I may have to nominate it for deletion. – [[User:Shannon Rose|Shannon Rose]] ([[User talk:Shannon Rose|talk]]) 21:39, 27 July 2008 (UTC)