Swami Sahajanand Saraswati — (1889 1950), was born in a Jijhoutia Bhumihar Brahmin [cite book first = Sharma last = Raghav Sharan title = Builders of Modern India: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati publisher = Prakashan Vibhag, Suchna evam Prasaran Mantralaya, Bharat Sarkar… … Wikipedia
Swami Sivananda — Saraswati (Sep 8, 1887 Jul 14, 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a well known proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai which is in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in… … Wikipedia
Swami Rama Tirtha — (also known as Swami Rama Tirath and Swami Rama) (October 22, 1873 October 17, 1906), was an Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. He was among the first notable teachers of Hinduism to lecture in the United States, traveling there… … Wikipedia
Swami Shraddhanand — Born February 2, 1856(1856 02 02) Talwan Village, Jalandhar, India Died December 23, 1926 … Wikipedia
Swami X — (also known as Ex Swami X or X Swami X) is the stage name of an anonymous psychedelic hippie comedian who frequented Venice Beach and the campuses of UCLA and UC Berkeley from the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. wami X s Public Persona and… … Wikipedia
Swami Shankar Purushottam Tirtha — (1888 1958) was a sannyasin and guru of the Tirtha Siddhayoga lineage in the early 1900 s, founder of Shankar Math in Uttarkashi and the Siddhayoga Ashram in Varanasi. His writings influenced modern Siddhayoga authors. The prolific Siddhayoga… … Wikipedia
Swami Vishnu-devananda — Swami Vishnudevananda (December 31, 1927, Kerala, South India November 9, 1993, Uttarakhand, India) was a disciple of Swami Sivananda, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. Considered by followers an… … Wikipedia
Swami Keshwanand — (1883 1972) was an Indian freedom fighter and social reformer. Early lifeBorn at village Magloona in Sikar district of present day Rajasthan in 1883, Swamiji, whose actual name was Birama, was the son of Thakarsi, a penurious camel driver, and… … Wikipedia
Swami Gopal Das — (Hindi:स्वामी गोपाल दास) (1822 1936) was a social worker, educationist, environmentalist and freedom fighter from Churu in Rajasthan state in India. ChildhoodHe was born in 1822 in village Bhainrusar situated at a distance of 22 km in north of… … Wikipedia
Swami Narayanananda — (12 April 1902 – 26 February 1988) was born in a village in Coorg, Karnataka state, South India. From an early age he practised regular meditation. After finishing his studies, he renounced the world in 1929 and joined the Ramakrishna Mission.… … Wikipedia
Swami Kriyananda — Swami Kriyananda, eigentlich James Donald Walters (* 19. Mai 1926 in Teleajen, Rumänien) ist direkter Schüler des Yogi Paramhansa Yogananda, und verbrachte während der letzten dreieinhalb Jahren von Yoganandas Leben viel Zeit an seiner Seite… … Deutsch Wikipedia