Yogananda’s Editor
Tara Mata, born as Laurie Pratt, was a direct disciple for forty-five years and served Yogananda’s SRF work until her death in 1971. She took a final, lifelong vow of renunciation in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order from Yogananda and was given the name Tara which means a name for God in the aspect of Divine Mother. Yogananda assigned her as a member of the SRF Board of Directors and Editor-in-Chief of SRY/YSS publications, and she was the Vice-President from 1962 to 1966. She wrote some studies and two books: Astrological World Cycles and A Forerunner of the New Race.
