![]() ![]() The foreign and expatriate students also established new centres of teaching in their respective countries. He lectured and taught for the next twenty years, including a tour of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, North America between April and October 1968. Some of these people in turn invited Satyananda to teach in their own countries. Īmong those who attended courses at the Bihar School of Yoga were students from abroad and students who subsequently emigrated from India. ![]() In 1964, he founded the Bihar School of Yoga at Munger, with the intention that it would act as a centre of training for future teachers of yoga as well as offer courses on yoga. This inspired the establishment of ashrams and yoga centres spiritually guided by Swami Satyananda in India and around the world. In 1962, Satyananda established the International Yoga Fellowship Movement in Rajnandgaon. Basing himself in Munger, Bihar, Satyananda wandered as a mendicant through India, extending his knowledge of spiritual practices and spending some time in seclusion. In 1956, Sivananda sent Satyananda away to spread his teachings. He stayed with Sivananda for a further nine years but received little further formal instruction from him. Sivananda initiated him into the Dashnam Order of Sannyasa on 12 September 1947 on the banks of the Ganges, and gave him the name of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. In 1943, at the age of twenty, he met his guru Sivananda Saraswati and went to live at Sivananda's ashram in Rishikesh. In another version of his life in Yoga from Shore to Shore, he stated that he would become unconscious during meditation and that "One day I met a mahatma, a great saint, who was passing by my birthplace.So he told me I should find a guru." Īt age eighteen, he left his home to seek a spiritual master. He claimed to have met a tantric bhairavi, Sukhman Giri, who gave him shaktipat and directed him to find a guru to stabilise his spiritual experiences. This experience of disembodied awareness continued, leading him to saints of that time such as Anandamayi Ma. He stated that he began to have spiritual experiences at the age of six, when his awareness spontaneously left the body and he saw himself lying motionless on the floor. It is claimed that he was classically educated and studied Sanskrit, the Vedas and the Upanishads. Satyananda Saraswati was born in 1923 at Almora, Uttaranchal, into a family of farmers and kshatriyas, the warrior caste. ![]()
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