Daya Mata

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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.[1]) 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.[2] She has been listed as one of Utah's most famous daughters by the government of Utah.[3]

Mata first met Paramahansa Yogananda in 1931, and joined Yogananda's ashram that year. After Yogananda's death, and his successor Rajarsi Janakananda, Daya Mata became the third president of YSS/SRF in 1955.[4]. The position was first offered to Durga Mata, even if only as a courtesy in recognition of her years of seniority.[5]

Daya's brother Richard Wright was Yogananda's secretary.[6], 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[7]) are the LDS monastics that have served on the SRF Board of directors from 1955 to the present day.[8]

Daya has written three books: Only Love': Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World[9], Finding the Joy Within You: Personal Counsel for God Centered Living,[10] and Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship with God.[11]

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“ The best way, by which we can truly appreciate what the great ones like my blessed Gurudev and Ananda Mayee Ma and other holy ones have to give us, is to become like them. I finished by saying that the only mission of such holy beings is to rouse in us the desire to find the Beloved within ourselves. ”

Sri Daya Mata [12]

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  1. ^ Articles of Incorporation from 1935
  2. ^ Salt Lake Temple
  3. ^ official welcome to Utah website.
  4. ^ Served as president of Self-Realization Fellowship since 1955
  5. ^ Daya Mata's Role
  6. ^ Secretary
  7. ^ Astrological World Cycles, Original 1933 First Edition, ISBN 978-0-6151-8500-2
  8. ^ Dwapara Yuga and Yogananda: blueprint for a New Age, ISBN 978-0615181318
  9. ^ Daya Mata. Only Love: Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World. Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers. ISBN 0-87612-216-0. 
  10. ^ Sri Daya Mata. Finding the Joy Within: You: Personal Counsel for God Centered Living". Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers. ISBN 0-87612-288-8. 
  11. ^ Sri Daya Mata (1998). Enter the Quiet Heart: Creating a Loving Relationship with God". Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship. ISBN 0-87612-175-X. 
  12. ^ MEETING BETWEEN Sri DAYA MATA AND Sri MA.

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