GLOBAL COMMUNITY

Inspiring
Beings
Throughout history, these beings and figures have offered an abundance of teachings and continuous inspiration for many students and teachers. Their lives and contributions remain essential studies, and we acknowledge their impact as guiding inspirations for spiritual seekers.

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Arjuna
10 Jan 1984
He was a hero prince, one of the Pandava brothers, who was on the battlefield with his chariot driver, Shri Krishna. The Bhagavad Gita (The Song of the Lord) is the discourse between Arjuna and Shri Krishna.
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Bhagavan Das
1945 – present
Kīrtan singer, devotee of the Divine Mother in the form of Kali Ma; featured in the book Be Here Now by Ram Dass; author of It’s Here Now (Are You?); disciple of Neem Karoli Baba.
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
1931 – 1990
Also known as Osho; Self-realized master.
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Brahma
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Brahma is the creative aspect of the Hindu trinity.
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B.K.S. Iyengar
1918 – 2014
He is a 20th century yoga teacher from South India. Like Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, he was a student of Krishnamacharya, who was his brother-in-law. The precise method he developed is alignment based and detail oriented. Many verbal corrections are given, whereas Shri K. Pattabhi Jois gives few. He lives in Pune and has centers around the world. His book “Light on Yoga” is considered the asana “Bible” to many. Students emphasize asana.
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Buddha
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The Buddha is the awakened one – Gautama. Hindus consider him to an avatar of Lord Visnu.
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Dharma Mittra
1939 – present
Dharma is a 20th century yogi, originally from Brazil, who lives and teaches in NYC. He was a disciple of Yogi Gupta, who initiated him as Brahmacharya. He was the founder of the Yoga Asana Center in NYC and has been teaching for over 30 years. The Master Yoga Posture Chart features him photographed in over 908 Asanas.
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Geshe Michael Roach
1952 – present
This fully ordained Buddhist monk received his geshe (master of Buddhism) degree from Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery after twenty-two years of study. Geshe Michael is also a scholar of Sanskrit, Tibetan and Russian. He founded the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Cutter Institute, Yoga Studies Institute and Diamond Mountain University. He has been instrumental in bridging the gap between yoga and Buddhism. He has authored “The Diamond Cutter,” “The Garden” and “How Yoga Works.”
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Hanuman
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He is “Jaw man”; Lord Shiva incarnated as Hanuman, the monkey god featured in the classical Hindu epic, The Ramayana. He exemplifies the perfect devotee, one whose heart and mind are always on God and whose every action is out of love for God. The great saint Neem Karoli Baba was thought by his devotees to be an incarnation of Hanuman.
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
1882 – 1926
Hazrat Inayat Khan was a Sufi mystic and renowned master of north Indian music, a Nada yogi who proclaimed that the knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. He was the father of Vilayat Inayat Khan, who carried on his father’s work of spreading Sufism in the West. 
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Isis
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Egyptian Goddess, wife-sister of Osiris, mother of Horus, the younger. She is the personification of what “Is.” She is the earth, the world of manifestation. The worship of Isis was very popular not only with the ancient Egyptians but among the Romans as well. 
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Jai Uttal
1951 – present
Devotee of Neem Karoli Baba; renowned student of Indian master musician Ali Akbar Khan; kirtan singer as well as multi-instrumentalist and recording artist. Jai is an innovative force in world music.
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Jamini

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Jamini was the exponent of Purva Mimamsa, one of the six schools of classical philosophy of India.

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Kabir
1440 – 1518
A bhakti poet born into a Muslim family of cloth weavers, he converted to Hinduism.
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Kali
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She is a fierce Hindu goddess who destroys the devotee’s attachment to ego (asmita), an aspect of the warrior Goddess Durga. 
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Krishna
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He is “the one who attracts,” beloved Hindu God, avatar of Lord Visnu.
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Krishna Das
1947 – present
He is a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, an inspiring and much loved kirtan singer who has been instrumental in infusing American yoga with the element of devotion or bhakti.
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Krishnamacharya
1888 – 1989
He was a 19th and 20th century yogi from South India. He studied for many decades with his family, at universities and with his teacher in the Tibetan Himalayas. His teachings are based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. He was an accomplished ayurvedic physician and Sanskrit scholar. Krishnamacharya claimed that anyone who can breathe and use his or her fingers could practice yoga (including women). He believed in the importance of developing a personal practice suited to the practitioner’s needs. His use of props in the therapeutic application of yoga was developed further by his student BKS Iyengar, his brother-in-law. His other extraordinary students include: Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, Indra Devi and his son T.K.V. Desikachar. He was a very demanding teacher. He is thought to be the greatest yoga teacher of the 20th century.
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Lakshmi
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She is the Hindu goddess of affluence, abundance, wealth, prosperity and beauty. She represents the bountiful aspect of nature. Also known as “Shri”, consort to Narayana, she is associated with water. She is the ever-giving generous mother. Her devotees please her through acts of kindness, compassion and generosity. She bestows power, pleasure and prosperity on those who respect the laws of life and strive to live in harmony with all of existence.
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Lori Zucker DPT
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Dr. Lori Zucker employs an integrative approach to physical therapy to achieve maximum recovery and comfort for her patients. She specializes in providing holistic care to individuals experiencing a wide array of musculoskeletal injuries or conditions Practicing since 1985, Lori received her Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy from Washington University, a Master’s Degree in Pathokinesiology from New York University, and her Transitional Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Rutgers University (formerly UMDNJ). In addition, Lori is an Adjunct Professor teaching in the Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy at Rutgers. She has authored a chapter in Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapy: A Clinical-Decision Making Approach, which was published in 2008. In the same year, Lori received the James Tucker Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award from the American Physical Therapy Association of New Jersey, and was awarded the outstanding alumni award from Rutgers. More recently, Lori has been an invited speaker at the New Jersey American Physical Therapy Association Spring Meeting and a presenter at the annual conference of the American Congress of Rehabilition Medicine (ACRM). An avid yoga practitioner, Lori is a certified yoga instructor and integrates principles of yoga in her physical therapy practice. She regularly advises yoga professionals on anatomical alignment, injury-prevention, and asana modifications. Lori recently launched a website bringing some of the medical research on yoga to the general public. It can be accessed here. Since 2006, Lori has lectured on anatomy and injury prevention both in the United States and overseas.
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Manorama
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Manorama evokes healing through the universal arts of language and conscious living. “Happiness,” she often says, “is the free flow of energy, and communication is energy. When we use our voices authentically and confidently, we create harmony between ourselves and others.” 
A renowned, highly respected teacher, Manorama offers Sanskrit Studies Method programs for yoga teacher trainings, as well as Luminous Soul Method trainings and retreats.  Through the Sanskrit Studies Method Manorama offers a direct, easy and joyful approach to learning Sanskrit, encouraging her students to focus on core principles of learning, the dynamic sound qualities of the language and it’s philosophical beauty. Grammar becomes fun and playful. In the Luminous Soul Method students learn about the nine pillars, which will make your life rich with wisdom, understanding and joy. The Luminous Soul Method fuses sacred Eastern and Western philosophy and shows you how to integrate them into your everyday life. Combining her earthly charm with a healthy dose of humor, Manorama guides students in bridging the ordinary with the spiritually sublime. Yoga teachers and students alike treasure Manorama’s recordings on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, Learn to Chant Yoga Invocations and Learn to Pronounce Yoga Poses. Celebrated for her haunting melodies in chanting, and her precision in pronunciation, Manorama is featured on numerous albums, including Invocation (with Krishna Das and Ty Burhoe) and Wade Morisette’s, Maha Moha: The Great Delusion. Manorama has taught Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy at Jivamukti Yoga since 1995. sanskritstudies.org

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Milarepa
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Tibet’s greatest yogi lived in the 11th century. He was a student of the tantric yogi Marpa, the translator. Marpa tested Milarepa’s endurance with the most brutal indignities. He came through hardened and tempered to become the great yogi-magician. He believed the struggle for realization should be a struggle for realization at all costs. He is renowned as a singer and poet.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
1897 – 1981
This jnana yogi of the 20th century had the same guru as Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati (Baba Bhagavandas). He was an uneducated man who lived a normal life until middle age. When he became Self-realized he left his family and business (selling cigarettes) and became a pilgrim. He later returned. He discovered that eternal life need not be sought after because he already had it. His teachings are in a question and answer form in the book “I Am That”. He lived an isolated life in old Bombay.
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Neem Karoli Baba
1900? – 1973
This 20th century Vrindavan saint was known as an incarnation of Hanuman. He taught many people the value of a simple life of devotion and humility. He was continuously chanting “Ram.” He was guru to Bhagavan Das, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Ram Dass, Baba Hari Das, and Shyamdas. His life and teachings are presented in the books “Be Here Now” and “Miracle of Love” by Ram Dass.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
1893 – 1952
He was an Indian yogi who in 1920 moved to the United States and founded the Self-Realization Fellowship, introducing many Americans to meditation and Kriya Yoga (the lineage established by Mahavatar Babaji). Yogananda wrote Autobiography of a Yogi.
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Pashupati
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“Protector of the animals,” an ancient form of Shiva famously depicted on the Harappa seals discovered in the Indus river valley.
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Patanjali
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The sage of yoga is considered an incarnation of the divine serpent, Adisesha, Sesha or Ananta, who supports the whole universe. He is credited with founding Yoga philosophy. There is disagreement as to when he lived, speculations ranging from 3,000 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E.
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Radhanath Swami
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Radhanath Swami is a Spiritual Guide, Author and Activist

Radhanath Swami is the founder and co-ordinator of multiple spiritual communities throughout the world, the most prominent of which is the Radha-Gopinath Ashram located in Mumbai, India. Under his inspiration and guidance, the project has grown to include hospitals, orphanages, eco-friendly farms, schools, temples, emergency relief programs, and a food distribution program that feeds more than 1.2 million children in India every single day.

In spite of his many responsibilities, he also travels widely, teaching Eastern philosophy and spiritually throughout Europe, Asia, and America. He has been featured as a guest speaker in universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and Stanford, and in corporations such as HSBC, Microsoft, Facebook, Starbucks HQ, Google, Intel and Oracle, to name a few.

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Ram Dass
1931 – 2020
Born Richard Alpert in 1931, this American was a psychology professor at Harvard with Timothy Leary. During the 1960s he was active in LSD research on consciousness. In 1967 Ram Dass went to India, where he met Bhagavan Das and his guru Neem Karoli Baba. When he returned, he authored the classic book “Be Here Now”, which profoundly shaped the Western spiritual awakening that emerged in the early 1970s. He founded the Hanuman Foundation.
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Ramana Maharshi
1879 – 1950
Coming from Tamil Nadu, this 20th century jnana yogi became self-realized at the age of 16. A vision of his death and cremation allowed him to see the Self beyond the physical body. He became a hermit and ascetic and is said to have lived for long periods in a state of samadhi. He considered bhakti and self-questioning, asking “who am I”, enough to attain liberation. Toward the end of his life he taught only through silence, using his gaze and written notes to communicate.
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Ramakrishna Paramahansa
1836 – 1886
He was a 19th century Brahmin saint from Bengal. At the age of seven he became God intoxicated. He repeatedly fell into trances and spent most of this time in a high state of ecstasy. He was a major Hindu scholar who respected and studied many religions, including Islam and Christianity. He rejected caste and all social divisions. He believed in the unity of all faiths. He was devoted to Kali and reawakened worship of the Mother. He was married to Sarada Devi. He sent his leading disciple Vivekananda to the Conference of World Religions in America in 1893. Vivekananda stayed in the US, toured and eventually opened the Vedanta Society in NY.
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Rama Mohan Brahmacharya
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This great yogi was Krishnamacharya’s guru from the Himalayas.
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Robert Thurman
1941 – present
Professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University and writer for thirty-seven years, Robert holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America. He is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House, New York. Robert Thurman, ordained by HH the Dalai Lama was the first Western “Tibetan” Buddhist monk.
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Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati
Mahasamadhi 1993
20th century realized master from North India. Also known as Dr. Ramamurti Mishra. He was a specialist in endocrinology, neurosurgery and psychology. He was a writer and ophthalmologist. He was also an expert on Vedanta and a Sanskrit scholar, a Nada yogi. He founded the Ananda Ashram in Monroe, NY, as well as meditation and healing centers around the world. He wrote “Fundamentals of Yoga,” “The Textbook of Yoga Psychology” and “Self-Analysis and Self Knowledge.” He spread Sanskrit in the West. Guruji was the authority on Sanskrit in America. His ashram, Ananda Ashram, was host to many yogis in the 1960s. He is guru to Sharon and David.
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Sri Anandamayi Ma
1896 – 1982
Shri Ma was a 20th century Bengali saint who was known as the “bliss permeated mother.” She was said to be in a constant state of ecstasy.
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Shri K. Pattabhi Jois
1914 – 2009
20th century South Indian realized yoga master of the Ashtanga Yoga method. He is also a Sanskrit scholar. Though he and B.K.S. Iyengar were both students of Krishnamacharya, they developed very unique styles. Shri K. Pattabhi Jois’ style is a very rigorous vinyāsa practice based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. He was teaching for over 60 years in Mysore. He is a guru to Sharon and David. He is a Sanskritist who studied Shankaracarya-style Vedanta.
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Shri Aurobindo
1872 – 1950
He was a 19th-20th century teacher and pundit, born in Bengal and educated at a Christian convent in Darjeeling. He was a prolific writer on many subjects, including yoga. He was a leading figure in the Bengali nationalist movement until his spiritual transformation during imprisonment for political agitation. He then founded an ashram in Pondicherry. His basic philosophy is referred to as Integrated yoga, which seeks the divinization of the whole of humanity through the practice of all the yogas. “The Mother” continued his work, a French woman whom he saw as the embodiment of the divine shakti. 
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Swami Brahmadev
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Director of Viswa Shanti Nikethana, Swami Nirmalananda’s ashram in B.R. Hills, Karnataka, India.
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Swami Nirmalananda
1924 – 1997
He was a 20th century saint from B.R. Hills. He began his religious studies at 14. Later he became a wandering monk, but returned to India in 1964 and lived in silence and seclusion in the forest of B.R. Hills. He never left the grounds of his ashram and remained completely silent for 11 years. He was a vegan and friend of animals. He built a strong relationship with the natives in the area. He was a political activist and the author of “The Garland of Forest Flowers”. Known as the anarchist swami because he advocated true Self-rule. He initiated David into sannyas. He is a guru to David and Sharon. 
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Saint Teresa of Avila
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Saint Teresa was a 16th century Carmelite Catholic nun from a province of Old Castille, Spain. She was an ecstatic. She teaches us that yogis come from all traditions. Her Krishna was Jesus. She had siddhis – she could levitate and exhibited stigmata. She instigated major reforms in the Catholic Church. Her book “The Interior Castle” is a classic of devotion to God.
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Sarada Devi
1853 – 1920
This 19th century Hindu saint was the wife of Ramakrishna through whose association she gained enlightenment. He saw her as the manifestation of the Divine Mother. She was a bhakta who worshipped the Mother.
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Swami Satchidananda
1914 – 2002
This 20th century disciple of Swami Sivananda from Rishikesh was a Self-realized saint. Satchidananda established an interfaith focus and worked tirelessly for world peace. He founded the Integral Yoga Institute, which has centers throughout the world. His main ashram is Yogaville, in Virginia. He authored many books, including commentaries on the “Yoga Sutra of Patanjali” and “The Living Gita”. Gurudev gave the opening talk at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and was instrumental in bringing yoga to the West. He was a close friend and advisor to David and Sharon.
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Shankaracarya
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From South India, this 8th-9th century acharya is one of the five great acharyas. He is the celebrated preceptor of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualistic philosophy). His exposition of Advaita Vedanta was chiefly responsible for the renaissance of Hinduism and the decline of Buddhism in India. Advaita Vedanta sees no difference between the Absolute and the essential aspect of the psyche, the transcendental Self. His method was to renounce the world and perform ritual and meditation. Swamis or monks wearing orange come from this tradition. His was a renunciate path advocating celibacy, poverty and simplicity. He is considered an incarnation of Shiva.
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Swami Shankarananda
1949 – presently Robert Moses
Swami Shankarananda is a South African disciple of Swami Visnudevananda. For many years he was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in upstate New York. Shankarananda is endowed with a deep understanding of the philosophy and science of yoga and its application to the modern world. He is editor of the spiritual magazine NamaRupa, and continues to be a charismatic and inspiring teacher. He was a beloved early teacher of Sharon and David.
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Shiva
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(Benevolent) Shiva is the personification of the masculine form of the Divine. In the Hindu trinity, Shiva represents destruction. Shiva is supreme Cosmic Consciousness, God, the Essence, Your Highest Self, Bliss.
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Shyamdas
1953 – 2013
A devotional singer, Sanskrit scholar, teacher, bhakta and devotee of Lord Krishna, Shyamdas belonged to the Pushtimarga lineage of Vallabhacarya. He traveled to India in the 1960s, where he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He was a master of many Indian languages including Sanskrit and Hindi, as well as the ancient language of Lord Krishna, Braja Basha. He was one of very few English translators of the teachings of Vallabhacarya, one of the five great vedantic acharyas. He took bhakti initiation from H.H. Shri Goswami Prathameshji, a respected PustiMarga lineage holder and direct decendant of Vallabhacarya. Shyamdas authored and translated many books on Krishna bhakti, and produced several CDs of devotional music.
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Swami Sivananda
1887 – 1963
A great yogi and sage of the 19th-20th centuries, Sivananda devoted his life to the service of humanity and the study of Vedanta. He was a medical doctor and began helping to heal souls through the teaching of yoga and Vedanta in order to serve humanity more effectively. An ashram grew around him in Rishikesh, North India – The Divine Life Society. His prescription for a spiritual life is summed up in six simple commands: “Serve. Love. Give. Purify. Meditate. Realize.” It is an “integrated” method, uniting the various yogic paths. At his ashram in Rishikesh he trained many exceptional disciples including: Swami Visnudevananda, Swami Satchidananda, Swami Satyananda Saraswati (founder of Bihar School of Yoga) and Yogi Gupta. He wrote many books on yoga.
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Swami Visnudevananda
1927 – 1993
His guru Swami Sivananda sent him to America in 1957 to bring yoga to the West. He did tours and eventually founded the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers International. His method as learned from Swami Sivananda takes into consideration all parts of an individual and teaches yoga as a way to perfect health, ease of mind and perfect peace with one’s Self. His five-step method includes: proper exercise, proper breathing, proper relaxation, proper diet, positive thinking (deep philosophy) and meditation. He wrote “The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga” and developed a teacher training course which is taught internationally. 
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The Mother
1878 – 1973
Spiritual collaborator with Shri Aurobindo, she was simply known as “The Mother” to her devotees. In 1926 The Mother took full charge of the Aurobindo Ashram and remained as its head for almost fifty years. She conceived of and built Auroville, a utopian community outside of Pondicherry in South India. 
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Vallabhacarya
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He is one of the five great ācharyas and lived in 15th century India. A proponent of Vedanta, Vallabhacarya, like Shankaracarya, taught that all is Brahman. But his interpretation differs from Shankaracarya. He advocated the path of householder rather than renunciate, and his philosophy is called Shuddha Advaita (Pure Non-dualism) as he saw Krishna in all forms of the world. The PustiMarg is founded in his teachings. He believed in devotion to God as a path to liberation. He is felt to be an incarnation of Radha, seeing all as lila or God’s play.
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Visnu
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The “Preserver” in the Hindu trinity, Visnu represents the sattvic force of preservation. He incarnates as an avatar when the world is in need of preservation. Krishna, Ram, Buddha and, some believe, Jesus were all avatars of Lord Visnu. His vehicle is Sesha, of whom Patanjali is believed to be an incarnation.
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Yemaya
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She is the Orisha of fertility in the Yoruba tradition. Yemaya is the lovely mother of the seas. She makes everything clean. Her dance is the dance of the waves. She will bring you health, luck, tranquility and all the good things in life. This goddess appears in many forms in many religious traditions: she is Lakshmi, Mother Mary, Glinda the good witch and others…
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Yogi Bhajan
1929 – 2004
He was a Sikh from North India. In 1969 he brought the once carefully guarded practices of Sikh Dharma in the form of Kundalini Yoga to the U.S. He founded the 3HO organization (Healthy, Happy, Holy). His organization has hundreds of worldwide centers, a string of Golden Temple vegetarian food restaurants, holistic health centers, drug rehabs and a publishing company.