Chandrasekharand Saraswati

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Chandrasekharand Saraswati (born February 3, 1930 in Tamil Nadu , † March 30, 2016 in Rishikesh ) was a monk of the Swami order, Kundalini Vidya master and founder and director of the Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care (PKYC).

Life

Chandrasekharanand Saraswati was the youngest of eleven children of a wealthy Brahmin family. At the age of 15 he attended a Christian college and later worked as an electrical engineer for the government and as a manager for an export company in Mumbai . At the age of 26 he left his home and met his guru Bodhanand Maharaj, who introduced him to sannyasin and taught him Kundalini-Vidya. After eight years of intense practice, he completed his Kundalini process. In 1956 he came to Rishikesh, where he lived on the banks of the Ganges and studied Sanskrit , Vedanta , Yoga Sutra and other spiritual texts. From 1963 to 1988 he hiked twice across India as a sadhu , studied numerous texts, learned Ayurvedic healing and practiced his sadhana . He then settled in Rishikesh, where he initially taught Sanskrit. At the end of the 1980s he founded Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care (PKYC) in Knoxville (USA) and Rishikesh (India).

Act

Saraswati was interested in research in neuroscience . He was convinced that "mind and body [...] are manifestations [...] of the same substance", "spiritual experiences are beneficial to humans" and "spirituality can be localized in the human organism".

In 1996, Joan Shivarpita Harrigan first published the book Kundalini Vidya: The Science of Spiritual Transformation, the result of a close collaboration with Chandrasekharanand Saraswati . A Comprehensive System for Understanding and Guiding Spiritual Development . The work, which was repeatedly revised and expanded jointly in the following years, summarizes the basic teachings of the traditional Kundalini Vidya as taught and practiced by Chandrasekharanand Saraswati.

Report on the theoretical principles, Saraswati's working methods and their effectiveness. a. Dani Antman and Marci Shimoff, the clinical psychologist, director of behavioral medicine at the University of Massachusetts, and 2005 Abraham Maslow Laureates Edward Bruce Bynum, Marietta Bittel and Tiamat S. Ohm.

Philip Goldberg describes Chandrasekharanand Saraswati as a "Nonguru" who does not accept formal students and does not allow a personality cult, but rather encourages students to be self-sufficient and independent. Its center is more an educational institute than an ashram. The students only come for relatively short stays to receive individualized yoga exercises.

literature

  • Kiu Eckstein : Kundalini experiences: A master-student encounter. Aquamarin-Verlag, Grafing 2008, ISBN 978-3-89427-381-1
  • Kiu Eckstein: Swamiji Chandrasekharanand Saraswati - A Kundalini Master of our time. In: Aufgang: Yearbook for Thinking, Poetry, Music , Volume 15. Aufgang-Verlag, Augsburg 2018, ISSN  1613-5709 , pp. 199–207.
  • Joan Shivarpita Harrigan: Stories of Spiritual Transformation. The Fulfillment of Kundalini Process. Modern Seekers, Ancient Teachings . Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care, Knoxville (Tennessee), 2017, ISBN 978-0-9984676-9-6 .
  • Joan Shivarpita Harrigan: Kundalini Vidya: The Science of Spiritual Transformation. Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care, Knoxville (Tennessee), 1996, ISBN 0-9710128-8-1 .
  • Philip Goldberg: American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation. How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. Harmony Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-52135-2 .
  • Steven J. Gold: Om Shalom: yoga and Judaism: explorations of a Jewish yogi. Golden Glow Productions, San Francisco, 2005, ISBN 978-1430327844 .
  • Edward Bruce Bynum: Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality. Inner Traditions, Rochester (Vermont), 2012, ISBN 978-1594774720 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dani Antman: Wired for god: Adventures of a Jewish Yogi. P. 148.
  2. ↑ Antonio R. Damsio: The Spinoza effect . Item 4292.
  3. ↑ Kiu Eckstein: Swamiji Chandrasekharanand Saraswati - A Kundalini master of our time. In: Aufgang: Yearbook for Thinking, Poetry, Music , Volume 15 p. 202f. Aufgang-Verlag, Augsburg 2018, ISSN  1613-5709
  4. ↑ Dani Antman, Marci Schimoff: Wired for god: Adventures of a Jewish yogi. Turning Stone Press, San Antonio (Texas), 2017 / Red Wheel Weiser, Newburyport, 2017, ISBN 978-1-61852-116-3 .
  5. ↑ Carol Kline, Marci Shimoff: Happy for no reason. Atria Books, New York, 2009, ISBN 978-1416547730 .
  6. ^ University of Massachusetts
  7. ^ Edward Bruce Bynum, Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality. Inner Traditions, Rochester (Vermont), 2012, ISBN 978-1594774720 .
  8. ^ Philip Goldberg: American Veda. From Emerson and Beatles to Yoga and Meditation. New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-52134-5 , p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME Saraswati, Chandrasekharand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian monk, Kundalini Vidya master, director of the PKYC
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Tamil Nadu
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2016
Place of death Rishikesh