Swami Satyananda Saraswati

• Foremost authority and inspirer of the modern yogic and tantric renaissance.
• Born in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1923.
• Left his home at the age of nineteen in search of spiritual truth.
• Joined his guru, Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh, and adopted the sannyasa way of life in 1943.
• Served his Guru for twelve years, broadening his own understanding of the spiritual sciences.
• Travelled the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent for nine years as wandering ascetic, to assess the needs of modern man.
• Founded the International Yoga Fellowship Movement at Rajnandgaon in 1956.
• Founded the Bihar School of Yoga at Munger in 1963.
• Conducted numerous programmes for training sannyasins and householders alike in the techniques of yoga; and toured internationally, propagating yoga among people of all countries, races and religions.
• Spiritual guide to thousands of aspirants and the guiding force behind the yoga training provide at hundreds of Satyananda Ashrams and Yoga Mitra Mandals in India and abroad.
• Authored over eighty books on yoga and spirituality.
• Founded Sivananda Math, a social, charitable institution at Munger in 1984.
• Founded the Yoga Research Foundation, a medical and scientific research oriented institution, at Munger in 1984.
• Renounced all that he had created in 1988, and now leads the life of a Paramahamsa sannyasin, not working for his flock and mission alone, but having a universal vision.