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In late 1949 Subramuniya sailed back to America and embarked on seven years of ardent, solitary yoga and meditation In 1956, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami had a tremendous spiritual experience in Denver, Colorado, where “ the soul body would finally fully inhabit the physical body ”.

The following year, in San Francisco, Subramuniya founded what is now Himalayan Academy and opened America's first Hindu temple near Presidio Park.

In Switzerland, 1968, he revealed Shum, a mystical language of meditation that names and maps inner areas of consciousness.