Encinitas: Our History and People

1936 ä • The Self-Realization Hermitage (1105 2nd Street) is established. In the early
1930s while traveling by car from Los Angeles to San Diego, Paramahansa
Yogananda asks his driver to pull over to the bluffs on the right to stop for a scenic
picnic. He is enthralled with the majestic ocean views. Soon after Yogananda
began his travels, one of his followers, James J. Lynn, purchases the property and
has the hermitage built. Two years later Mr. Lynn presents this gift to Yogananda.
Yogananda departs from his physical body March 1952. His dwelling has not
been changed in any way. The Meditation Garden is open to the public Tuesday
through Sunday. Occasionally the private areas are open for public tours.
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Above: Left to right, Muriel Kincaid,
Irene Rupe, Hilda Remmele, Isabel
Rupe, and Florence Kincaid.
Left: The Golden Lotus Temple, c.
1938. Built on the bluff within the Self
Realization Fellowship grounds in
1938. Unfortunately, the temple
toppled to the beach below just four
years later in 1942. The tiled
entryway is still prominent on the
garden grounds.
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