|
Paramhansa
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
|
|
|
Paramhansa
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
The
founder of the Institute " Bihar School of Yoga" at Munger,
Bihar, India.
Swamiji
was born on 26/07/1923 in a small town of Almora in U.P. He met
his Guru Swami Shivananda Saraswati in 1934 in Rishikesh and adopted
Sannyasa way of life. In 1955 he left his guru's ashram to live
as a wandering mendicant and later founded the International Yoga
Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964.
Over
the next 20 years he toured internationally and authored over 80
books. In 1987 he founded Sivananda math, a charitable institution
for rural development, and the Yoga Research foundation. In 1988
he renounced his mission, adopting Kshetra Sannayasa and now lives
as a Paramhansa Sannayasin.
www.yogavision.net
|