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Nithyananda was born Arunachalam Rajasekaran [19] [20] in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki.He belongs to the Saiva Vellala community. [21] [20] Sources conflict as to his birth date – a 2003 United States visa gave a date of 13 March 1977, while a sworn affidavit in a 2010 Karnataka High Court case mentioned 1 January 1978.
Settled in southern India, Nityananda gained a reputation for performing miracles and curing the sick. He started building an ashram near Kanhangad, Kerala state. The hill temple and Ashram in Kanhangad are now pilgrim centres. The Guruvan, a forest in the hills nearby where Bhagawan sat on penance, is now a pilgrim retreat. [5]
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Gurumayi or Swami Chidvilasananda), born Malti Shetty on 24 June 1955, is the guru or spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path, with ashrams in India at Ganeshpuri and the Western world, with the headquarters of the SYDA foundation in Fallsburg, New York.
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Muktananda (16 May 1908 – 2 October 1982), born Krishna Rai, was a yoga guru and the founder of Siddha Yoga. [1] He was a disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda. [2] [3] He wrote books on the subjects of Kundalini Shakti, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, including a spiritual autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness.
According to Swami Tulsidas, Bhakti Marga's representative in North America, the main deity in the new ashram will be that of Narasimha, the avatar of Vishnu. [47] On October 22, 2023, In the small town of Elmira, New York, Swami Paramahamsa Vishwananda completed the inauguration of the Paranitya Narasimha Temple and ashram on September 3, 2023.
Gurudev Siddha Peeth has been linked by multiple commentators with the ashram in Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, since, among other clues, it has a multilingual female guru who was a swami's translator, succeeded him, and resides in the United States, attributes of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, and where a 90-minute Guru Gita is sung every morning.
Vishwananda (born Mahadeosingh 'Visham' Komalram in 1978 [1]), known to followers as Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda (IAST: Paramahāṁsa Śrī Svāmī Viśvānanda), is a Mauritian neo-Hindu religious leader. He is the founder of Bhakti Marga, a neo-Hindu organization that has ashrams and temples in many countries.