Sivananda Saraswati

Sivananda Saraswati
Sivananda Saraswati
Personal
Born	Kuppuswami; 8 September 1887; Pattamadai, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India)
Died	14 July 1963 (aged 75); Muni Ki Reti, Uttar Pradesh, India (now in Uttarakhand, India)
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	Indian
Founder of	Divine Life Society
Philosophy	Yoga of Synthesis
Religious career
Guru	Vishwānanda Saraswati
	Disciples Shantananda Saraswati, Krishnananda Saraswati, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Satchidananda Saraswati, Vishnudevananda Saraswati, Sivananda Radha Saraswati, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Jyotirmayananda Saraswati, Swami Sahajananda, Swami Chidananda, Venkatesananda Saraswati;

Sivananda Saraswati (or Swami Sivananda; IAST: Svāmī Śivānanda Sarasvatī; 8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963) was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

Quotation

Be Good, do Good, be kind, be compassionate.

He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (DLS) in 1936, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, the headquarters of the DLS, on the bank of the Ganges at Muni Ki Reti, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Rishikesh, and lived most of his life there.

Sivananda Yoga, the yoga form propagated by his disciple Vishnudevananda, is now spread in many parts of the world through Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres. These centres are not affiliated with Sivananda's ashrams, which are run by the Divine Life Society.

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