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

* Swami Satchidananda ( 1914 – 2002 ), Indian religious figure, lived in the town.

In the summer of 1970, Singh participated in an informal " Holy Man Jam " at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Swami Satchidananda, Stephen Gaskin of The Farm in Tennessee, Zen Buddhist Bill Quan-roshi, and other local luminaries.

He was a direct disciple of Swami Satchidananda.

Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville was founded by Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda in 1980.

The primary vision of this world-traveled guru Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda ( 1914-2002 ) was interfaith understanding as a vehicle to world peace.

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 Satchidananda was born in 1914 into a pious and devoted Gounder family at Chettipalayam, a small village in Coimbatore, near Podanur in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and was named as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder.

There, he discovered his guru, Sri Swami Sivananda who ordained him into the order of sannyasa in 1949 and gave him the name Swami Satchidananda.

During the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Swami Satchidananda headed, along with another swami female disciple of Sri Swami Sivananda, to the Kandy Thapovanam, one of Swami Sivananda's ashrams situated in the hill country of Sri Lanka.

Here, Swami Satchidananda taught yoga, conceived and implemented innovative interfaith approaches to traditional Hindu festivals and modernized the ancient mode of living that renunciates had followed for many years.

Swami Satchidananda characterized Integral Yoga as "... a flexible combination of specific methods to develop every aspect of the individual: physical, intellectual, and spiritual.

This would make it very similar to Sri Aurobindo's concept of Integral Yoga, which clearly preceded the work of Swami Satchidananda.

There are also similarities in the symbolism used by Sri Aurobindo and Swami Satchidananda.

" Easeful, peaceful and useful " was the simple motto of Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda.

Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga should not be confused with a trademark " Integral Yoga " of Swami Satchidananda.

Its title ( and title track ) reflects Coltrane's inspiration by Swami Satchidananda, to whom she had become close, and whose disciple she was.

A fifth individual whom Drury identified as an important influence upon the New Age movement was the Indian Swami Vivekananda ( 1863 – 1902 ), an adherent of the philosophy of Vedanta who first brought Hinduism to the West in the late 19th century.

The temple at Arasavilli was constructed in such a way that on the day of Radhasaptami, the sun's rays directly fall on the feet of the Sri Suryanarayana Swami, the deity at the temple.

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

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.

Swami Vivekananda (; pronounced: ) ( 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902 ), born Narendra Nath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk.

In Swami Vivekananda's own words, he was " condensed India ".

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

In 1888, Vivekananda's first destination was the city of Varanasi, where he met the learned Bengali writer, Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the saint Trailanga Swami.

Th Diwan who was so charmed with his company that every evening he, with all the State officials, used to meet the Swami and converse with him until late at night.

Dr. Barrows, the president of the Parliament said, " India, the Mother of religions was represented by Swami Vivekananda, the Orange-monk who exercised the most wonderful influence over his auditors.

The same year, the famine relief work was started by Swami Akhandananda at Murshidabad district.

Swami Vivekananda – the photo was taken in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900.

The Swami Vivekananda temple at Belur Math, on the place where he was cremation | cremated.

He was accompanied by Sister Nivedita and Swami Turiyananda.

Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara.

On 11 November 1995, a section of Michigan Avenue, one of the most prominent streets in downtown Chicago, was formally renamed " Swami Vivekananda Way ".

The device was designed by the Simputer Trust, a non-profit organization formed in November 1999 by seven Indian scientists and engineers led by Dr. Swami Manohar.

The temple was founded by Swami Satyamitranand Giri, on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar.

" Other prominent personalities whose first language is or was Gujarati include Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Morarji Desai, Narsinh Mehta, Dhirubhai Ambani, and J. R. D. Tata.

Swami Vivekananda was the chief architect who profoundly projected the rich culture of India to the west at the end of 19th century.

One of the first to do so was Swami Vivekananda who addressed the World Parliament of Religions assembled in Chicago, Illinois in 1893.

One example of such group was the Hare Krishna movement ( ISKCON ) founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966, many of whose followers voluntarily accepted the demandingly ascetic lifestyle of bhakti yoga on a full-time basis, in stark contrast to much of the popular culture of the time.

It was founded in 1965 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

He was trusted to take care of the bulk of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati's correspondence without direction, and was also sent out to give public speeches on Vedic ( scriptural ) themes.