Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Swami Vishnu-devananda ( born December 31, 1927 in Kannimangalam, Kerala, † November 9, 1993 in Mangalore, Karnataka State ) was a renowned Hatha and Raja Yoga master. He founded in 1957 on behalf of his master Sivananda Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres in Val Morin ( Quebec).

Biography

Vishnudevananda came from a family of landowners in Kerala, South India. From a young age he is said to have shown great interest in natural sciences. After a short career in the Army, he accidentally learned from the teachings of Sivananda. A leaflet that began with the phrase " An ounce of practice weighs more than a ton of theory " is said to have impressed him so much that he went to Rishikesh in northern India, to meet the Master. Lived ten years, and he worked there under the direct guidance of Sivananda, who appointed him as the first " Hatha Yoga professor" at the "Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy". 1957 sent him this in the West to spread yoga there. In the same year he founded in Canada, the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta organization.

When his special mission, he saw the universal peace. He was convinced that without inner peace, outer peace can not exist. Therefore he developed in the West a comprehensive teaching program for yoga teachers, which in turn should inspire many more people.

From the 70s Vishnudevananda launched its Peace flights to the trouble spots of the world to put in this way too visible signs of cross-cultural understanding and world peace. The Peace flight in 1983 with a hang-glider over the Berlin Wall from West to East -initiated by him into a Global Peace Festival at Potsdamer Platz with a South Indian fire run directly on the wall was a continuation of previous peacekeeping missions. This had led him to crisis regions such as Northern Ireland and in the area around the Suez Canal during the Sinai crisis. In 1989, when the wall was opened, he flew to a peace action at the Brandenburg Gate and Egon Krenz to thank.

After over 35 years of work Vishnudevananda died in 1993 during a pilgrimage for world peace in the southern Indian Mangalore.

Works

  • The Complete Illustrated Yoga Book, Aurum Publishing, 10th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-89901-183-8
  • Meditation and Mantras, 3rd edition, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-930716-00-3
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