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 ).

One of Swami Muktananda's earliest and principal disciples was Malti Shetty, a young woman from Mumbai who accompanied him as his English language interpreter on his second and third World Tours.

They also celebrate the birthdays of Swami Muktananda and Swami Chidvilasananda ; Swami Muktananda's divya diksha day ( the day he received initiation ); and the mahasamadhi anniversaries of Swami Muktananda and Bhagawan Nityananda.

In the field of religion, Huxley ’ s friend and spiritual mentor, the Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, thought that mescaline was an illegitimate path to enlightenment, a " deadly heresy " as Christopher Isherwood put it.

* " Radharani is the source of spiritual inspiration " ( A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada )

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya ( spiritual leader ) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas.

* Swami Chinmayananda ( Indian spiritual leader and geetacharya )

* Swami Vivekananda – monk, spiritual leader

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.

Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, the renowned spiritual teacher reckoned as the greatest karmayogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda drew inspiration from the Guru's life and teachings and popularised it through his long oratories across the length and breadth of Kerala. He can be regarded as a political successor of the guru who enshrined the guru's vision in the setting up of Hindu Aikya Vedi uniting all the Hindu organisations in Kerala under the aegis of a single organisation brushing aside caste distinctions and uniting the two major groups of Hindus in the state, respectively the savarna Nairs and Ezhavas. As Noted by

This movement enjoys the blessing of all traditional Hindu spiritual leaders who have united as a single body, the Acarya Sabha, through the coordinating efforts of Swami Dayananda.

Swami Chinmayananda ( 8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993 ), born Balakrishna Menon ( Balan ), was an Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher, who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission in 1953 to spread the message of Vedanta.

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

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

According to Vedas, holy name of Vishnu is so powerful that one ( even outcaste or meat-eater as in ISKCON ) can become brahman ( dvija, twice-born, by qualification if he actually knows vedanta and Brahman, Vishnu ) by accepting initiation from bona-fide spiritual master ( like A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ).

Swami Vivekananda's lectures and writings, deriving their inspiration from the Indian spiritual tradition and the broad outlook of his Master Sri Ramakrishna, are a source of inspiration and have motivated numerous youth organizations, study circles, and service projects involving youth.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur is also the spiritual master of world renowned A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

He drew upon influences from social and spiritual Hindu reformers such as Swami Vivekananda, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Aurobindo to develop the core philosophy of the RSS.

* Larry Storch as Swami, Sally Miles ' spiritual guru, who officiates at the funeral.

After the death of Swami Vivekananda in 1902, Sarada Devi, the spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna, played an important role as the advisory head of a nascent monastic organization.

* Radhanath Swami cites this in the book " The Journey Home " as an impetus in his epic journey to understand spiritual truths.

Pawas: Besides its natural beauty and serenity, Pawas achieved prominence when Swami Swaroopanand ( a spiritual leader who influenced an entire generation of Maharashtrians ) had made it his abode.

* Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada ( 1874 – 1937 ), pre-ISKCON and the spiritual master of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

* 1914 – Swami Satchidananda, Yogi and Spiritual teacher ( d. 2002 )

* February 2 – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher ( b. 1884 )

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

* 2 February-Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher ( born 1884 ).

The foremost Hindustani musician Tansen's teacher, Swami Haridas also a Saraswat Brahmin was Purandara Dasa's disciple.

" 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.

Swami Muktananda regarded the path he learned from his teacher as a perfect path because it embraced all of the traditional yogas ( jnana yoga, hatha yoga, raja yoga, and bhakti yoga ), spontaneously bringing the disciple to perfection in each.

Swami Muktananda himself defined a true Guru, or spiritual teacher, as " one who awakens the inner shakti Kundalini through shaktipat.

Swami Sivananda Saraswati ( September 8, 1887 – July 14, 1963 ) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta.

Shri Purohit Swami ( – 1941 ) was a Hindu teacher from Maharashtra, India.

Swami Prabhavananda ( December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976 ) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher.

Swami Satyananda Saraswati ( 24 December 1923 – 5 December 2009 ), was a sannyasin, yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West.

Swami Satchidananda ( December 22, 1914 – August 19, 2002 ), born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West during his time in New York.

Swami Haridas is said to have been the teacher of Tansen, one of the ' nine gems ` of Akbar's court, and the renowned dhrupad singer and composer Baiju.

Sister Nivedita ( ); born Margaret Elizabeth Noble ; 1867 – 1911 ) was a Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda.

The Home of Truth, which, from its inception as the Pacific Coast Metaphysical Bureau in the 1880s, under the leadership of Annie Rix Militz, has disseminated the teachings of the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, is one of the more outspokenly interfaith of New Thought organizations, stating adherence to " the principle that Truth is Truth where ever it is found and who ever is sharing it ".

It was built in 1970 by the Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee in honour of the visit of the great spiritual teacher Swami Vivekananda to Shripada Parai during the month of December 1892 for deep meditation and enlightenment.

* Swami Rama Tirtha, Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta