Teachers can come to you either physically or through books. I grew up in the northern part of Mexico. I didn’t have the money or the time to visit India in search of a ‘guru.’ My teacher appeared in the form of obscure but fascinating books. His name, Yogi Ramacharaka. He is the author I quote the most in these daily emails, and his writing captivated me and led me to study the Yogi philosophy.

So, who was this Yogi Ramacharaka?

There’s barely any information about this person online, and there’s no record of his existence. The main theory is that it is a name used by an American author when writing about the Yogi philosophy.

Yogi Ramacharaka is the pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson, an early 1900s American author and publisher who wrote extensively on the topics of New Thought, mentalism, and the Yogi philosophy.