Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao

Master C.V.V. (Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao)(1868 -1922)

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao, also known as Master C.V.V. (1868-08-04 in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, India – 1922-03-12) was a Yoga guru.

Biography

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao was born in a Niyogi family which had migrated from the Andhra area in the 14th or 15th century. He had his elementary education at Kumbakonam, and his secondary education at Srirangam. Around the age of 18, he came across theosophical literature.

He married Sow Rukmini when he was 12 years old; they had three sons and three daughters. She died when he was 36 and at 38 he married Venkamma and through her he had three sons and a daughter.

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao was influenced by H.P. Blavatsky.^[1][2]

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao started Bhrukta Rahita Taraka Raja Yoga on 1910-05-29.^[3][4][5] He started classes in this new form of yoga in 1912, with Sri Satchidananda Saraswathi of Kanchi as his personal secretary. Among the followers of this new yogic path were Ekkirala Krishnamacharya, Potharaju Narasimham, Veturi Prabhakara Sastry and T. S. Sankara Iyer.

Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao left his physical body in 1922-05-12, his wife in 1940.

Books about Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao

• Krishnamacharya, Ekkirala (1985). Master C.V.V. Visakhapatnam: The World Teacher Trust. http://www.worldteachertrust.org/books_ek_mcvv_e.htm#Seitenkopf. 
• Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (1993). The Aquarian Master (First Edition ed.). Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 81-900332-1-2. http://www.worldteachertrust.org/bk/aquarianmaster/index.html. 
• Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (2006). Master C.V.V - May Call (First Edition ed.). Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 978-3-9523145-0-0. http://www.worldteachertrust.org/bk/pdf/maycall_e.pdf. 
• Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (2007). Master C.V.V - May Call - II (First Edition ed.). Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 978-3-9523145-7-9. http://www.worldteachertrust.org/bk/pdf/maycall2_e.pdf. 

References

1. ^ MASTER C.V.V. JIVITA KATHA — Biography of Master C.V.V.: Sri Sarvari (Vasili Ramakrishna Sarma)
2. ^ "Life story of a Yoga master". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 2003-06-10. http://hindu.com/thehindu/br/2003/06/10/stories/2003061000110301.htm. 
3. ^ World Celebrations 2006
4. ^ World Celebrations 2007
5. ^ Bhruktha means hidden; Rahita means eradication or evaporation; Taraka means superior; Raja yoga means a form of yoga where one need not be a sannyasa.

External links

• Master CVV

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Name	Rao, Canchupati Venkatrao
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Date of birth	1868
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Date of death	1922
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