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Revision as of 16:20, 9 January 2008
Sri Daya Mata (born Faye Wright) (born January 31, 1914) is the current president and sanghamata (Mother of the Society) of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF Inc.) Los Angeles and the Yogoda Satsanga (YSS Inc.) Society in India.
Wright was born in Utah to a prominent family of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church). Her ancestors are said to have been among the original Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. Her father, Abraham Reister Wright, was an architect of the LDS Church's Salt Lake Temple.[1] She has been listed as one of Utah's most famous daughters by the government of Utah.[2]
Her interest in spirituality was apparent since childhood. It reached a point of craving when she first met Paramahansa Yogananda in 1931. Braving reluctance from her family, she joined Yogananda's ashram a few weeks later. After the passing away of Yogananda and his successor Rajarsi Janakananda, Daya Mata became the third president of YSS/SRF in 1955.[3]. The position was first offered to Durga Mata, even if only as a courtesy in recognition of her years of seniority.[4]
Other notable disciples came to Yogananda on these dates:
1929 Detroit, Durga Mata
1930 Detroit, Yogacharya Oliver Black
1931 Salt Lake City, Daya Mata
1932 Kansas, Rajarsi Janakananda
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1947 Los Angeles, Norman Paulsen
1948 Los Angeles, Swami Kriyananda
Her brother Richard Wright was Yogananda's secretary [7], appearing in his Autobiography of a Yogi. Her mother was also an SRF member. Daya Mata (Faye Wright), Ananda Mata (Virginia Wright, Daya's sister), Mrinalini Mata (Merna Loy Brown) and Tara Mata (Laurie Pratt, Yoganananda's editor[8]) are the LDS monastics that dominated the SRF Board of directors from 1955 to the present day.
Daya Mata and her sister Ananda Mata have shared an SRF Inc.-owned house in a neighborhood of million-dollar homes in the San Gabriel Valley foothill community of Sierra Madre since the late 1960s. For years, they've commuted to Mount Washington in a vintage pink Cadillac.[9]
Daya has written three books - Only Love, Finding the Joy within you and Enter the Quiet Heart.
References
External links
- Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF Inc.) website
- Daya Mata's response website to allegations made against her
- Sri Daya Mata credentials by Sri Anandamayi, an Indian Saint
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