More recently, the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Shirdi Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Swami Muktananda, Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Shriram Sharma Acharya, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Mata Amritanandamayi has inspired millions to create new centers of spiritual development.

Swami Muktananda ( 16 May 1908 – 2 October 1982 ) is the monastic name of an Indian Hindu guru and disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda.

Swami Muktananda was the founder of Siddha Yoga.

He studied under Siddharudha Swami at Hubli, where he learned Sanskrit, Vedanta and all branches of yoga, and took the initiation of sannyasa, becoming Swami Muktananda.

Swami Muktananda often said that his spiritual journey didn't truly begin until he received shaktipat from the holy man Bhagavan Nityananda.

In 1966, Swami Nityananda gave Muktananda a small piece of land at Ganeshpuri, near Bombay on which Muktananda developed an ashram.

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The ceremony was led by Swami Baba Muktananda as part of a spiritual retreat.

The Siddha Yoga path was founded by Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa ( 1908 – 1982 ).

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Swami Muktananda extended the ancient tradition of shaktipat initiation by bestowing spiritual initiation on tens of thousands of people throughout India and other countries.

In May 1982, Swami Muktananda installed Ms. Shetty ( now known as Gurumayi Chidvilasananda or Gurumayi ) and her brother Subhash Shetty ( now known as Mahamandaleshwar Nityananda ) as co-Gurus and spiritual leaders of Siddha Yoga.

Swami Muktananda died on October 2, 1982.

Swami Chidvilasananda has expanded the philanthropic work initiated by Swami Muktananda.

The SYDA Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and disseminating the Siddha Yoga teachings, offers a variety of courses and retreats throughout the year, including the meditation intensives first developed by Swami Muktananda in the 1970s.

* September 1 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian founder of the Hare Krishna movement ( d. 1977 )

Swami Vivekananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission is one of the greatest Hindu missionaries to The West

At the event Moby Grape performed along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, Allen Ginsberg, The Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, donating proceeds to the temple.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ) translated the Sanskrit word " deva " as " demigod " in his literature when the term referred to a God other than the Supreme Lord.

The new movements look up to Swami Vivekananda ; Rabindranath Tagore ; Ramana Maharshi ; Shri Aurobindo ( for his Integral Yoga ); Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( founder of the modern Hare Krishna movement ); Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha ; Narayana Guru, Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, Paramhansa Yogananda ; Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

On October 9, 1966, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, held the first recorded outdoor chanting session of the Hare Krishna mantra outside of the Indian subcontinent at Tompkins Square Park.

Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji ( Hindi: स ् व ा म ी दय ा नन ्‍ द सरस ्‍ वत ी) ( born August 15, 1930 ) is a monk of the Hindu monastic order and a renowned traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta, and founder of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam

Swami Vivekananda, the 19th Century Hindu Philosopher and founder of Vedanta Society, drew a number of parallels between the teachings of the Imitation and the Bhagavad Gita.

The couple had met the Swami through Werner Erhard, founder of " est ".

The movement for the building and supporting of gurukulas was started by the organization's founder and leader of the Hare Krishna movement, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

During this time Khandwa was visited by Swami Dayanad Saraswati of Arya Samaj fame, Swami Vivekanand, the great monk and founder of Ramkrishna Mission, Mahatma Gandhi in 1921, Lokmanya Tilak, and others.

Kirtan became more common with the spread of Gaudiya Vaishnavism by ISKCON's founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the 1960s.

* A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( 1896 – 1977 ), the founder of ISKCON

Swami Prabhavananda died on the bicentennial of America's independence, July 4, 1976, and on the 74th anniversary of the death, or mahasamadhi, of Swami Vivekananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna Order in India and many of the Vedanta centers in America and Europe.

* The founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada lived in the Bowery when the movement began in America in 1966.

During his career, Smith not only studied, but practiced Vedanta ( studying under Swami Satprakashananda, founder of the St. Louis Vedanta Center ), Zen Buddhism ( studying under Goto Zuigan ), and Sufi Islam for more than ten years each.

Adjoining the temple is the samadhi of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, built in pure white marble.

" Siddha Yoga: Swami Muktanada and the Seat of Power.

Swami Muktananda's spiritual teacher, Bhagawan Nityananda, has been widely regarded throughout India as a Siddha Guru and as an Avadhut since the mid-20th century.

Under Swami Muktananda's leadership the three-room dwelling in Gavdevi also expanded into a flourishing ashram and international retreat site ( Sri Gurudev Ashram, now Gurudev Siddha Peeth ).

Swami Chidvilasananda continued in her appointed role and has been the sole spiritual leader of Siddha Yoga since then.

" Siddha Yoga " (" perfect " or " perfected " yoga ) is a Sanskrit term adopted by Swami Muktananda to describe the path of self-realization that he embarked on under the guidance of his spiritual teacher, the Indian saint Bhagawan Nityananda.

In 1975 Swami Muktananda founded the SYDA Foundation ( Siddha Yoga Dham Associates ) to administer the work of his global " meditation revolution.

A definition of " Siddha Yoga " is also offered by Swami Shankar Purushottam Tirtha, a yogi from the dual Tirtha / Siddhayoga lineage, who wrote two books on " Siddhayoga " in the early 1900s:

A further definition of " Siddha Yoga " was offered in 1948 by Swami Purushottam Tirtha's disciple, Swami Vishnu Tirth: