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Kripalvananda (January 13, 1913 – December 29, 1981), also known as Swami Sri Kripalvanand or Bapuji, was a renowned master of kundalini yoga and the namesake of the Kripalu Center, Kripalu Yoga style and Kripalvananda Yoga Institute, as well as a significant influence on Kriya Yoga in the United States. [1] [2]
Written in the Bengali language, it runs to more than 15,000 verses and “is regarded as the most authoritative work on Śrī Caitanya”, a work of “rare merit”, with “no parallel in the whole of Bengali literature”. [244] Scholar of religion Hugh Urban calls it “one of the greatest works in all of Indian vernacular literature”. [245]
From left: Swami Satchidananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Amrit Desai, Shri Kumar-swami, Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari, and B.I. Atreya at the World Conference on Scientific Yoga in New Delhi in 1970. In 1966, during his first visit to India since his arrival in the United States, Swami Kripalvananda gave him initiation and further instruction in kundalini ...
Jigyasu was born in Lucknow, in a relatively prosperous low-caste family, [1] belonging to the Kalwar caste. [2] He was born sometime in the late 19th century: his biography by Angney Lal states his year of birth as 1889; anthropologist Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp states it to be 1885, and Sarah Beth Wilkerson (Hunt) states it to be 1899.
One of his books was honored at the 2010 USA Book News Awards. [4] He lectured in different countries throughout the world. In addition to English, he spoke Italian , Romanian , Greek , French , Spanish , German , Hindi , Bengali , and Indonesian and taught in several of these languages.
Swami Mukundananda is a spiritual leader, Vedic scholar, author, [2] and a teacher of spirituality, yoga and meditation from India. He is a senior disciple of Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj and the founder of the yogic system called Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog , widely known as JKYog. [ 3 ]
Swami Harshananda (1930–2021) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Order who wrote over 200 works on spirituality, Hinduism, and Vedanta philosophy in Kannada, Sanskrit and English. He promoted daily spiritual practice and meditation, impacting spiritual seekers globally through retreats and courses. [ 1 ]
Jagadguru, literally meaning "guru of the universe", is a title used in Sanātana Dharma.Traditionally, it has been bestowed upon or used for ācāryas belonging to the Vedānta school (among the six traditional schools of thought in Hinduism) who have written Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī (literally, 'the three sources') – the Brahma sūtras (the original scripture of ...