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Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda

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Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda Born in Mumbai, India in 1962, Swami Nityananda was educated from childhood by the well-known Shaktipat Guru, Baba Muktananda. He was initiated into the mysterious path of the Siddha Gurus, education the various yogic practices with thought and Sanskrit chanting and studying the philosophies of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism. In 1980, at eighteen years of age, in according with his Guru’s wishes, he was initiated into the Saraswati arrange of monks and established name Swami Nityananda, the name of Baba Muktananda’s Guru. In 1981, Baba Muktananda confirmed Nityananand his successor and in 1982, at the finish of a five-day Chandi Yagna, transferred to him and Swami Chindvilasanand all his power and knowledge in the presence of Mahamanand Giriji Maharaj. Swami Nityananda founded Shanti Mandir in 1987 as a vechile for lifelong his Guru’s work and subsequently the three ashrams. He travels between the ashrams each year, distribution the spiritual practi...

Maitreyi Amma

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Maitreyi Amma Maitreyi Amma was born in Normaandy (France) in December 1952. Her birth was individual. Behind some days, her parents noticed that she was blind. She improved sight miraculously at the age of six and half. She was a child full of delight, always feeling the attendance of the Divine; as such she entered the quest of life on earth. Since an early age she required to divide her awareness that he is within us and all about. Maitreyi Amma felt certain she would meet a great sage in India and that she was intended for a chief assignment, except as a teenager and adult she had important responsibilities which prevented her departure France. Neverthless she was holy with Divine manifestations in all aspects of her life. In Delhi, She had a very huge knowledge: the Divine appeared to her in the form of light; He guided her and asked her to provide Him in Benares. She made her Seva in one year, gentle for the children of the street and giving them relief. She became a Mother in ...

Richard Rose

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Richard Rose Richard Rose (1917-2005) is one of the mainly deep and curious religious teachers his country has still twisted. A resident son from the hills of West Virginia, Mr. Rose underwent a cataclysmic religious knowledge at the age of thirty that absent him with an intimate accepting of the secrets of life and death. He was often referred to as a Zen Master by the people who knew him because of the strength of his wisdom and his facility to make shortest intellect contact with his students. But he did not explain traditional Zen or any other established teaching. What he taught sprang from his personal awareness of Truth. During he was the author of some books on mysterious attitude and had lectured generally in Universities across the country, Richard Rose remain mainly mysterious. He has been described, in information, as “The most man no one’s always heard of.” He appeared in newspaper articles and on talk explains through in structure and was featured in religious journals ...

Swami Bodhananda Saraswati

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Swami Bodhananda Saraswati   His Holiness Swami Bodhananda Saraswati is extremely appreciated in America and India as a talented teacher of Vedanta and thought. He was born in Mattatur, Kerala, 36 miles from kalady, the birthplace of Adi Sankaracharya. His birthplace, religious feeling and experiences as a youth, seemed to destine him for the life of a sannyasin. At an early age he felt a religious vocation, readily took to religious tapas, and, with a deep sense of kindness, vowed to help kindness. With this frame of intelligence, he finished his undergraduate degree in finances at Christ College , Irinjalkuda, Kerala. The young hopeful locate, out in search of heavenly thoughtful, wandering throughout the Himalayas for a number of years. Lastly, he established in Kerala where, as a brahmachari, he connected the Saraswati order-one of ten sannyasa instructions recognized by Adi Shankaracharya, the famous 8 th century Indian Philosopher and advocate of Advaita Vedanta. In...

Swami Nardanand

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Swami Nardanand Swami Nardanand was born in 1958 in a small agricultural village of Uttar Pradesh state in North India . Since a particularly talented boy of 10, and with the consent of this family, this eldest son enthused to the banks of the Ganesh at the holy city of Haridwar to focus gurukul, which is the olden way of teaching in Sanskrit and religious matter. The path of study was 12 years, 24 hours per day. The name of the school is Gurukul Kangri, which is one of the luxury such schools in India . While Swami Nardanand was modify, he not only was the chief student of his class, but offered in person by the president of India . At the period of 14, Swami Nardanand was initiated as a priest by his teacher, Paramahansa Lakshmananda, who currently lives in the city of Vrindivana.   Presently, Swami Nardanand meets and was begin into the further esoteric spiritual teaching by his teacher, Swami Shivom Tirth, a generally expert who is at present in his 80’s and maintains...

Swami Parthasarathy

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Swami Parthasarathy The greatest academic Swami Parthasarthy, generally known as ‘Swamiji’, is generally acclaimed as the maximum living supporter of Vedanta, the early Philosophy of being and living.   He has numerous degrees in writing, science and law, and completed a post graduation in international law from London University . He renounced a lucrative corporate career early in life to offer himself to study and research of Vedanta.   In a life of selfless service over five decades, Swamiji’s outstanding giving has been the translation of subtle philosophical themes into sensible techniques of living. His behavior and existence effort has been profiled in books approved for students in India : 101 Large Indians who have made India proud in the last century. 101 Great Indian Saints 101 Great Indian Authors and Poets   His education increase the clarity in thinking desired to decrease pressure in daily alive Maintain harmony in relationships Handle the challen...

Swami Ranganathananda

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Swami Ranganathananda In 1926 he joined the Mysore branch of Ramakrishna Math. He obtains his final Vows of monasticism from Swami Shivananda in 1933. He exhausted the first 12 years of monasticism in Mysore and Bangalore branches.   He served there as the cook, personal attendant to Swami Siddheswaranandaji. He is said to have rendered outstanding service as the secretary and librarian at the Rangoon branch of Ramakrishna task from 1939 to 1942. He then served as the president of the Karachi centre of math from 1942 to 1948 until the division of India .   Since 1949 to 1962, he served as a secretary at the Delhi centre. Then from 1962 to 1967, he served as the Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, and director of school of Humanistic & Cultural studies, editor of mission’s kolkata, director of school of Humanistic & educational study, editor of mission’s journal. Then he served as the president of the Hyderabad division for a long...

Swami Samarth Maharaj

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Swami Samarth Maharaj Shri Swami Smaratha comes from the age-old guru institution of the Dattatreya sampradaya. Since per the mainly accepted belief, Shri Narasimha Swami, Once serving and morally inspiring a great number of people more a little decades, went absent to the Himalayas for apology and went into Samadhi. During the Samadhi state He remained for about three hundred years. Through the course of time a huge anthill grew above him and he was lost to the exterior world. One day accidentally a woodcutter’s axe fell on the blade of the axe. He cleared the anthill and lo, he establishes a yogi in thought. The Yogi gradually opened his eyes and consoled the astonished woodcutter proverb that it was the Divine will for Him to re-appear in the globe to continue his assignment. This Yogi, in his novel position came to be known as Swami Samarth. Former to his resolution at Akkalkot, Swami Samarth seems to have visited far and large. Even as touching in the Himalayan region he visi...

Swami Satchidananda

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Swami Satchidananda Swami Satchidananda ( 22 December 1914 - 19 August 2002 ) was an Indian spiritual figure, religious teacher and yoga expert, who gained fame and followers in the West, particularly in the United States . He was the author of many book, as well as on Hathna Yoga. Satchidananda’s name at birth was C.K. Ramaswamy Gounder. He was born in Chettipalayam in the Tamil Nadu district of southern India in 1914 to lucky and observant Hindu parents who called him Ramu. Like added children from spiritual families, little Ramu respected to play guru and believer with his friends.   He did not become occupied in religious directly upon success adulthood, though. Behind graduating from agricultural college, he took a location with his uncle’s firm, which imported motorcycles. At 23, then a chain- smoking executive at India ’s National Electric Works, he wedded, but his wife died suddenly behind five years of marriage, having specified birth to two sons. After his wife’s...

Swami Sri Atmananda

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Swami Sri Atmananda Swami Sri Atmananda was born in a rural village in Orissa , India , In 1951, sri Atmananda was exposed to the established teaching from childhood. After finishing his education in the matter field at the most supposed institutions in India , he entered in to stuff and social life, which lasted for hardly 10 years. Throughout this time, his aspiration intensifield, he trained and experimented with the ideology of Gita, and sadhana deepened. The prompting to pursue his own path independent of any material came to him even as helping the most famous yogi, His Holiness Maharshi Mahesh Yogi. That prompting led him to travel all more India and meet many masters. The journey culminated at Pondicherry where he surrendered to the Mother. The Mother guided him to a yield in the holy mountain Arunanchala, Where, in 1993, he attained the result of his sadhana. Behind remaining in the state of pure nirvikalpa for numerous days, he regained his knowledge and came to the world t...

Swami Vishnudevanand

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Swami Vishnudevananda Swami Vishnudevananda (December 31, 1927, Kerala, South India- November 9, 1993, Uttarakhand, which is situated in India) was a believer of Swami Sivananda Sivananda, and originator of the international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. Measured by followers and talent on Hatha and raja yoga, he is the novelist of the whole Illustrated Book of Yoga. A close disciple of Swami Sivananda, Swami Vishnudevananda, a Nair, was born in Kerala, South India on December 31, 1927 . Behind a short career in the soldiers, he accidentally establishes attention in the knowledge of Swami Sivananda thought a copy of Sadhana Tattwa (Spiritual Instructions). Its foreword read, “A practice is worth tons of theory. Perform yoga, religious and attitude in each day life and achieve self-realization”. Impressed, he traveled to Rishikesh to meet the writer and the conference, taking place on the stairway of the ashram chief to the Ganga ( Ganges River ), would change h...