Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Swami Mahavanam Saraswati....The Yoga teacher 2

Swami Mahavanam Saraswati has an inborn inclination towards Bharatiya Vidyas to learn and live for the achievement of divine-sight and for the upliftment of divine-height. He has an unquenchable thirst to know and realize the mystery of life. He has a sound and burning urge to evolve and effulge from the deep within to all around.

After his graduation, at the age of twenty-two, he felt an urgent need of a Guru, who can guide him on the path of spirituality. In his dream and emotion, he was very fond of Swami Shivananda through his books and literatures, who was a renowned and revered Guru for guiding spiritual aspirants. But swami Shivananda was no more in his body. So he kept wandering in search of a Guru. Some how he came to know about Swami Niranjanananda, who is a grand- disciple of Swami Shivananda. So at the end he decided to go and meet Swami Niranjanananda for his spiritual quest. With a humble heart and noble steps, he approached Swami Niranjan for his spiritual growth and guidance. In course of time, he got saturated by their ideas and decided to stay with them. During his stay – he served his Guru, the best way he could offer his service to him. Side by side, he has also studied yoga educationally in a university pattern system. And at the same time, he has also focused to imbibe the traditional wisdom of Sannyasa, which is a compulsory part of discipline to pave the path of spirituality.

The first half of his stay, he has lived under the direct guidance of Swami Niranjanananda. That was the foundational period of his life to build and barricade himself for divine blooming. He tried to follow and flow with his Guru’s words and commands. During this period, he has done active participation in all the required needs of the Ashram activity, such as : management & administration, education & discipline, Puja & programe, cleaning & guarding, publication & accommodation, and kitchen & gardening etc. by this way he got fully occupied and engaged in this noble service to his Guru.

In 2001 he was sent to his grand Guru(Paramhamsa Swami Satyananda) to live under his direct guidance and proper care for rest of the stay. He got introduced to Paramhamsaji. Paramhamsaji gave him some responsibility and told him that this is your sadhana. After that he has plunged himself into the practice of Karma-yoga(selfless service) for the fulfillment of his Grand-Guru’s command. And he kept it up, till he got further instruction to leave the Ashram, at his ripening stage. All of a sudden, on the auspicious day of Vijaya Dashami(1st October 2006 at 6 o’clock in the morning) he was called and told to leave the Ashram immediately. Without any single thought, he prostrated in front of them and left the Ashram soon(within 5-10 minutes).

When he came out of the Ashram, he lived like a wandering monk and kept visiting yoga-institutes, universities, colleges, schools, hospitals etc. to serve what he knew and to learn what they knew. In this period, he has got chance to interect with doctors, teachers, professors, scientists, sadhaks and yogis to give and take better ideas towards life in modern age. Most of the time he remained in touch with the following institutions to work with ie. (a) B.R.Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur,(b) Shanti Kunja Haridwar,(c) Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga,(d) Acupressure Shodha Prashikshan avam Upchar Sansthan Allahabad,(e) International Naturopathy Organization Pune,(f) Nutan Sanjivini Sansthan Deoghar,(g) Vivekananda Kendra Bangalore,(h) Bhartiya Yoga Sansthan Delhi,(I) Arya Samaj Mandir,(j) Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peetham Coyambtoor,(k) Medras University Chennai(l) Famous Akharas & Peeths of Sannyasa Parampara, and (m) Central Council of research in Yoga and Naturopathy Delhi etc.

The whole purpose was behind it to remain fresh, updated and keen towards life, yoga and divinity.

Experience

He has worked and lived with great yogis, yoga scientists, philosophers, reformers, sadhakas and jignasu to get the utmost utility and benefit of yoga. He has worked and experienced the essence of yoga. Yoga is a science of soul and an art of living - it is the oldest technique for self-development. It provides health, harmony and happiness. It disciplines one’s life and makes a mannered & cultured human-being. Yoga is a bestower of humanity and divinity in man.

Degrees and Qualification are as followed:-

(1)Post Graduate in yoga philosophy from Bihar Yoga Bharti, Munger, Bihar, (India).
(2)Senior Diploma in Indian Classical Music from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad.
(3)Acupressure training from Acupressure Shodha Prashikshan Avam Upchar Sansthan, Allahabad.
(4)Yajna And Sanskara Prashikshan from Shanti Kunja, Haridwar.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Swami Mahavanam Saraswati... The Yoga Teacher....

Swami Mahavanam Saraswati is a trained & tested, churned & creamed, talented & brilliant, excellent & unique, extra-ordinary & recognized, classical yoga-teacher of Bihar School of yoga, Munger and Bihar Yoga Bharti, Deemed University. He has privilege to accompany with such a great Tantric yogi like Swami Satyananda(founder of Bihar School of Yoga) and their successor Swami Niranjanananda(founder of Bihar Yoga Bharti, worlds first yoga university), in a very close rapport for thirteen years. He has also been initiated into the tenth order of sannyasa through a unique Tantric method. Since seventeen years he has been fully engaged and engrossed in the study and dissemination of yoga through his versatile character and child like nature. He has also chewed and digested the highest philosophy of life i.e. Yoga, Vedanta & Tantra and its practical possibilities for self-development. He has almost visited each and every corner of India to guide the people of different societies, communities & religions to a wide extent, from a luminary to a lay man. He is full of teaching skills – even the most difficult thing can be taught by him in an as easy mood with effective manner. He was an impression throwing students and an inspiring sadhak of his time for the whole inmates and delegates of the Ashram and university. Along with yoga , he has also gone parallel through the other useful science and technique for the deep and wide understanding to make the teaching worth useful. He is also having the knowledge and study of Ayurveda, Acupressure, Yajna therapy, Naturopathy and life-style therapy including diet and nutrition etc. to guide the masses.

It is a matter of immense proud to enjoy the service of such a person like him who is well-versed and authoritative in his skill and wisdom of his subject. It will be a lucky boon and lofty proud for Divine Wellness to have him for the best service to the mankind.

Experience

He has worked and lived, shared and sucked the deep and wide understanding of yoga through his precise skill and insight vision, with great-yogis, yoga-scientists, philosophers, reformers, sadhaks and yoga-jignasu to get the utmost utility and benefit of yoga for mankind. He has a consized and compact feeling of yoga to express it with deep impact for the human to relinquish its misery. Yoga is a science of soul and an art of living --- it is the oldest technique for self-development. It provides health, harmony and happiness. It disciplines one’s life and makes a mannered and cultured human-being. Yoga is a bestower of humanity and divinity in man.

Degrees and Qualifications

• Post Graduate in Yoga Philosophy from Bihar Yoga Bharti (world’s first yoga university), Munger, Bihar (India).

• Senior Diploma in Indian Classical music.

• Acupressure training from Acupressure Shodh Prishikshan Avam Upchar Sansthan.

• Yajna and Sanskara Prashikshan from Shanti Kunja.