Eknath Easwaran
Author
1910 – 1999
Who was Eknath Easwaran?
Eknath Easwaran was a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature.
In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California. Nilgiri Press publishes over two dozen books he authored.
Easwaran was influenced by Mohandas K. Gandhi, whom he met when he was a young man. Easwaran developed a method of meditation – silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's great religions – which later came to be known as Passage Meditation.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1910
Kerala - Religion
- Hinduism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- India
- Education
- University of Nagpur
- Lived in
- Kerala
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Died
- Oct 26, 1999
California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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