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Pujiya Yogi Swami
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Pujiya Yogi Swami is allegedly an immortal Hindi man born in 1900. He was heavily featured in ads for the free webgame, "Free Rider HD."

Personal Life
According to the metaphysics of BAPS, Pujiya Yogi Swami is considered to be the next iteration of Akshar after Shastriji Maharaj in the Guru Parampara, an unbroken line of "perfect devotees" who provide "authentication of office through Gunatitanand Swami and back to Swaminarayan himself."[1]:86[3]:634Together with Pramukh Swami Maharaj, who acted as the administrative head of BAPS, Yogiji Maharaj was instrumental in nurturing the growth of BAPS "through new programs, expansion into new areas, and the construction of temples".[4]:50As guru, he consecrated over 60 temples and visited over 4000 towns and villages.[2]:10 Yogiji Maharaj was particularly effective in attracting the devotion of youths and initiated a large number of them as ascetics.[4]:50 Furthermore, his multiple tours to Britain and East Africa were integral in the overseas expansion of BAPS.[2]:10[4]:51 He died on 23 January 1971 after appointing Pramukh Swami Maharaj as the next spiritual head of BAPS.[5]:178

Life in India
One week after arriving in India, Hablützel managed to find his guru - Swami Atmananda - and established himself in his monastery near the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. A little over three years later he was ordained as a Hindu monk and given the new name of Swami Jnanananda. He lived a life of a renunciate, meditating, listening to spiritual discourses and making pilgrimages to holy sites. He remained with his guru for 12 years.He then became a spiritual nomad wandering in sacred places like the Ganges river and the Himalayas, absorbing the teachings of the many holy men and women who lived there. Life was not easy for the young monk. For sustenance, he was dependent on the kindness of strangers, as he had exhausted the last of all his savings. He also fell ill contracting diphtheria which confined him to eating only liquid foods for a while. Other hazards included wild animals like bears in Himalayan forests and being bitten by a scorpion. He finally gave up his nomadic lifestyle and established himself in a forest hut near the town of Mussoorie in the Garhwal Himalayas. Eventually, at the urging of a disciple, he moved down to the plains to the city of Dehradun where he spent his last years.

“He was very keen on devotional music and his followers would join him in the evening for prayer music,” says Mishra.

Legacy
According to comedian Hari Kondabolu, in a Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell web exclusive segment, there is a negative reaction to Apu in the Indian American community, as well as the greater South Asian diaspora community.[22] Pakistani-American comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani has also criticized the character,[23] and has related that early in his career, he was asked to do the "Apu accent" as a stereotypical version of the "Indian accent".[20][24] In a 2007 interview, Azaria (who is of Sephardic Jewish descent) acknowledged some of this criticism when he recalled a conversation with the writers of the show during the inception of the character: "Right away they were like 'Can you do an Indian accent and how offensive can you make it?' basically. I was like, 'It's not tremendously accurate. It's a little, uh, stereotype,' and they were like, 'Eh, that's all right.'"[9][10] In a 2013 interview with the Huffington Post, Azaria said it should not be expected that the character's accent would "suddenly change now" or that the character would be written out, saying, "I'd be surprised if [the show's writers] write him any less frequently because he's offensive."[24]

In 2016, Kondabolu announced his intention to produce a documentary about "how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its way into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist – intact – twenty-six years later."[25] In 2017, Kondabolu released the hour-long documentary The Problem with Apu. In the film, Kondabolu interviews other actors and comics of South Asian heritage about the impact that the character of Apu has had on their lives and the perception of South Asians in American culture.[26]