Satchidananda Saraswati, born C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder and known as Swami Satchidananda, was an Indian yoga guru and religious teacher, who gained following in the West. He founded his own brand of Int
Satchidananda giving an informal talk to students in Yogaville (1982)
Satchidananda (standing) with his Guru, Sivananda Saraswati, Rishikesh, India, 1951
Swami Satchidananda on stage as he opens the 1969 Woodstock Festival
Swami Satchidananda, with Sydney Opera House in background, during a speaking tour of Australia, 1981
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…treatment procedures. He travelled to Rishikesh, a town in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the Ganges. There, he discovered his guru, Sivananda Saraswati, founder of the Divine Life Society, who ordained him into the sannyasa in 1949 and gave him the name Swami Satchidananda Saraswati. The name Satcitananda…
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Krishnananda and Sivananda (right), c. 1945
Sivananda and Vishnudevananda by the Ganges, c. 1950
Sivananda on a 1986 stamp of India