Yoga Teachers

The aim of this site is to present the details about Gregorian Bivolaru, the Romanian Yoga teacher, a man of great character, wisdom, kindness and profundity. He is the mentor of a large spiritual movement in Romania, with main focus on the practice of yoga, tantra and meditation. For almost 35 years he has been the victim of obstinate, yet ungrounded, persecution driven by the romanian totalitarian communist forces. Here you can find the documents which will present you with the TRUTH. <br />
Gregorian Bivolaru is living now in Sweden where he gained political asylum. He continues here his work to promote the spiritual values, knowlwdge and practices in the world today. <br />
His yoga system was implemented in many yoga schools from more than 20 other countries, on all continents, and is followed by over 35,000 yoga students and sympathizers.

"Ideas, testimonials and personal statements regarding spirituality, awakening of faith and aspiration to an ideal life, positive thinking and spiritual healing through yoga, defending spirituality..."

Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual teacher who dedicated his life in the service of humanity. In his 43 years in the West, he endeavoured to inspire and serve mankind with his soulful offerings - his prayers

Though Amma makes no claims herself, those who watch her closely notice that she is the greatest example of her teaching. Her disciples and believers imbibe her teachings by just watching her.

Welcome to the official website of Swami Krishnananda. Here you will find e-books and articles as well as audios and videos on yoga, meditation, philosophy, scriptural texts and related subjects.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - founder of the Transcendental Meditation program

Sri Neem Karoli Baba Sri Neeb Karori Baba - Miracle Saint of Northern India.<br />
It is believed that by the time Maharaj-ji was 17 years old He knew EVERYTHING. This is to be taken to mean a knowing that is actually incomprehensible to you and me. A knowing that is all. The knowing of Bhagvan. The knowing of God. There are stories contained in this website and in the books referred to herein that hope to in some way help to tell of the Grace and Love of this truly remarkable being. Maharaj-ji had nothing and Maharaj-ji had everything.<br />
Maharaj-ji established at least 108 temples, fed millions of people, advised government and corporate leaders, performed what can be called Miracles, influenced current American and Indian society, brought grace into the lives of countless suffering people, and all the while remained out of the &quot;public eye.&quot;

The great seer and saint Shri Kartikeyaji was born in a highly respected and distinguished Brahmana family of Uttar Pradesh, a State in Northern India. Even in his early days he gave ample and unmistakable signs of a promising genius. He was gifted with a faculty of prescience, and as a small boy he was able to recite great Sanskrit classics like the epic Mahabharata with a perfect ease and scholarly fluency. He surprised everybody by chanting the famous and sacred incantations of the Gayatri-Mantra on his own, though he was never taught it. Still a child, he left home and roamed about amongst the desolate peaks of the Himalayas, like those of Kailasha, and visited places like Lake Manasarovar, which for centuries of the hoary past have been the abodes and the seats of the mystics and the votaries of spiritual practices. A visit in the shrine of Badrinath inspired him unequivocally to dedicate his life to the service and uplift of mankind.<br />
During his lifetime Maharshi Kartikeyaji toured extensively throughout the length and breadth of India and benefited countless number of persons. In the year 1953 he finally reached Ayodhya, the birth-place of Lord Rama, where on the bank of river Sarayu, while the evening-prayer was on, he entered into Maha-Samadhi, sitting in Siddhasana before a large gathering. It is generally believed that he was 335 years old at that time.

Just like his life and his death the origin of Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari is shrouded in mystery. There are no records of the day of his birth, and during his lifetime the public was speculating about his real age. He never talked much about his past, but when he remebered his early childhood he used to say that he was a wild and naughty boy with a great sense for adventure, which often put him in difficult and dangerous situations. When he was twelve years old he started to read the Bhagavad Gita and he was deeply impressed when Krishna says to Arjuna: &ldquo;The Yogin is verily superior to the Tapasvins (those observing austerities), Jnanins (the knowledge-ables) and Karmakandins (those who perform the ceremonial rites). Therefore you should try to become a Yogin!&rdquo; So he decided to become a Yogi. From this moment he pursued this arduous path with great devotion and deep interest, and he left his family to search for a true Guru. During these years of wandering he met many masters and holy men, but in spite of his ardent efforts it seemed impossible to find the one personal Guru. Many so-called masters turned out to be charlatans or they were demanding a certain hairstyle or dress from him, changes which the stubborn young man wouldn`t accept. While this struggle between light and darkness was in full swing, he finally met his Guru Maharshi Kartikeya, whose Ashram stood at Gopal-Khera, about twelve miles from Lucknow. There his Guru initiated him into the untold secrets of Yoga. He practiced Pranayama in an underground cave and reached a state of perfect mental equilibrum, which made him enter the realms of higher Yoga. Now he was a Swami, a Siddha and Yoga-Master, and he was directed by Maharshiji to propagate the Yogic Kriyas. <br />
In the year 1981 he was asked by some journalists if he would leave his body as old as his own Guru Maharshi Kartikeya, who entered Maha-Samadhi 1953 in the age of 336 years, while he was meditating with his favourite Chelas. He answered: &ldquo;I would gladly do that, if I shouldn`t die in a plane-crash.&rdquo;<br />
It was in the Vishwayatan Ashram in New Delhi in the beginning of june 1994 that he announced his final departure from this world to the unbelieving staff and students. A few days later, it was the 9 th june 1994, he crashed with a small airplane in the mountains near Mantalai (J &amp; K).

Born in 1887 in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu, South India, Swami Sivananda whose name was then Kuppuswami, was a brilliant boy at studying as well as gymnastics and naturally inclined toward spiritual and religious practices.<br />
His natural selfless spirit lead him to a career in the medical field. His amazing eagerness and ability to learn and assimilate his studies earned him the respect of his professors who invited him to attend surgeries while still in his first year of medical school. After finishing the medical school, in a short time, he was given the responsibility of running a malaysian hospital. One day Dr. Kuppuswami had the opportunity to cure a wandering Sannyasin (renunciate or Monk) who then gave the doctor instruction on Yoga and Vedanta. From that day on his life changed, and gradually Dr. Kuppuswami became more introspective and could not stop pondering the great questions of life. Now he felt the need to help people on a more profound level, not just healing their physical body, but helping them to find a cure for all suffering.<br />
Filled with a tremendous desire for spiritual growth and enlightenment Kuppuswami went to North India in search of his Guru. After spending time in Varanasi (Banaras) he travelled north to the Himalayas. There in the holy town of Rishikesh Kuppuswami discovered his Guru who gave him Sannyas. After taking these vows, Swami Sivananda Saraswati, as he would be known henceforth, started an extremely intense daily Sadhana and Tapas for the next 10 years or so. <br />
From that time Swami Sivananda became one of the most prolific Yoga teachers who has ever existed. Although he rarely left the little town of Rishikesh Swami Sivananda's teachings spread quickly throughout our entire planet.

A spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power, Vivekananda crammed immense labor and achievement into his short life, 1863-1902. Born in the Datta family of Calcutta, the youthful Vivekananda embraced the agnostic philosophies of the Western mind along with the worship of science. <br />
At the same time, vehement in his desire to know the truth about God, he questioned people of holy reputation, asking them if they had seen God. He found such a person in Sri Ramakrishna, who became his master, allayed his doubts, gave him God vision, and transformed him into sage and prophet with authority to teach. <br />
After Sri Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda renounced the world and criss-crossed India as a wandering monk. His mounting compassion for India's people drove him to seek their material help from the West. Accepting an opportunity to represent Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of Religions in 1893, Vivekananda won instant celebrity in America and a ready forum for his spiritual teaching. <br />
For three years he spread the Vedanta philosophy and religion in America and England and then returned to India to found the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Exhorting his nation to spiritual greatness, he wakened India to a new national consciousness. He died July 4, 1902, after a second, much shorter sojourn in the West. His lectures and writings have been gathered into nine volumes.

Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India, into a devout and well-to-do Bengali family. From his earliest years, it was evident to those around him that the depth of his awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond the ordinary. In his youth he sought out many of India's sages and saints, hoping to find an illumined teacher to guide him in his spiritual quest.<br />
It was in 1910, at the age of 17, that he met and became a disciple of the revered Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. In the hermitage of this great master of Yoga he spent the better part of the next ten years, receiving Sri Yukteswar's strict but loving spiritual discipline. <br />
Yogananda began his life's work with the founding, in 1917, of a &quot;how-to-live&quot; school for boys, where modern educational methods were combined with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. Visiting the school a few years later, Mahatma Gandhi wrote: &quot;This institution has deeply impressed my mind.&quot; <br />
On March 7, 1952, Paramahansa Yogananda entered mahasamadhi, a God-illumined master's conscious exit from the body at the time of physical death. His passing was marked by an extraordinary phenomenon. A notarized statement signed by the Director of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park testified: &quot;No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death....This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one....Yogananda's body was apparently in a phenomenal state of immutability.&quot;<br />
In the hundred years since the birth of Paramahansa Yogananda, this beloved world teacher has come to be recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the West of India's ancient wisdom. His life and teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures and creeds.