Satchidananda Saraswati
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1914 – 2002
Who was Satchidananda Saraswati?
Satchidananda Saraswati, born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West after a two-day visit to New York was due to end.
Author of many philosophical and spiritual books through an enormous core of founding disciples who compiled and requested of Satchidananda Saraswati updated traditional handbooks of yoga such as The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita for modern readers, both with his incisive insights as a Yogiraj, master yogi, and as a master of humorous parables.
Photographer George Hausman masterfully captured the elegant physique of Satchidananda Saraswati for Integral Yoga Hatha, the manual for many who began yoga studies since the 1960's.
The international school Satchidananda Jothi Niketan located in Mettupalyam, Tamil Nadu.
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- Born
- Dec 22, 1914
South India - Also known as
- Sri Satchidananda
- Swami Satchidananda
- Satchidananda Swami.
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- India
- Died
- Aug 19, 2002
Tamil Nadu
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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