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Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Swami Chidvilasananda) is the current spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path. She is formally known as Swami Chidvilasananda or more informally as Gurumayi (the word translates to "immersed in the Guru"). The Siddha Yoga lineage (''parampara'') was established by Bhagawan Nityananda, whose disciple and successor, Muktananda was Gurumayi's guru. ==Life and career== Swami Chidvilasananda is the monastic name of Malti Shetty, who was the oldest child of a Mumbai couple who were devotees of Muktananda in the 1950s. Her parents took her to the Gurudev Siddha Peeth ''ashram'' at Ganeshpuri for the first time when she was five years old. During her childhood, her parents brought her, her sister, and two brothers to the ashram on weekends.〔Douglas Brooks, Swami Durgananda, Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Constantina Rhodes Bailly, S.P. Sabharathnam. ''Meditation Revolution: a History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga lineage''. (Agama Press) 1997, p.62〕 After she had been initiated by Muktananda through ''shaktipat'' at age fourteen,〔Meditation Revolution, p.64〕 she moved to the ashram as a formal disciple and yoga student.〔''The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States'', Karen Pechilis, Oxford University Press US, 2004, pg. 225〕 At age twenty, Muktananda made her his official English language translator and she accompanied him on his second and third world tours.〔Douglas Brooks, Swami Durgananda, Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Constantina Rhodes Bailly, S.P. Sabharathnam. ''Meditation Revolution: a History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga lineage''. (Agama Press) 1997, p.99. This history records Chidvilasandna as starting as translator for Muktananda at the age of 20. She translated for Muktananda on his second and third world tours but not on his first.〕〔 (PDF – page 22 ). Note that Caldwell gives the age of Gurumayi's shaktipat as thirteen, not fourteen as stated by Pechilis.〕 On 3 May 1982, she was initiated as a sannyasin into the Saraswati order of monks, taking vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience, and acquiring the title and monastic name of Swami Chidvilasananda, (literally "bliss of the play of consciousness"). At this time Muktananda formally designated her as one of his successors, along with her younger brother Subhash Shetty, whose monastic name was Swami Nityananda.〔Meditation Revolution, p.115〕 Sharing her experience, Chidvilasananda wrote: Muktananda died in October 1982, after which Chidvilasananda and her brother became joint spiritual heads of the Siddha Yoga path. However, Chidvilasananda's brother left the Siddha Yoga path in 1985.〔S.P. Sabharathnam Douglas Brooks. ''Meditation Revolution: A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage''. Agama Press, 1997. page 115. ISBN 978-0-9654096-0-5〕 According to his 1986 interview in Hinduism Today, Nityananda left by his own choice, deciding to cease to be a Siddha Yoga Sannyasi but wishing his sister well as sole guru. In 1987, Nityananda founded the ''Shanti Mandir'' ('Temple of Peace'), a separate organisation which he now runs as Mahamandaleshwar Nityananda. In the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, Chidvilasananda gave lectures and conducted Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensies in India, United States, Europe, Australia, Homg Kong, Japan, and Mexico. Through Shakitpat Intensives, participants are said to receive Shaktipat initiation (the awakening of Kundalini energy that, according to Indian scriptural tradition, resides within each person) and to deepen their practice of Siddha Yoga meditation.〔S.P. Sabharathnam Douglas Brooks. ''Meditation Revolution: A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage''. Agama Press, 1997. pages 135-152. ISBN 978-0-9654096-0-5〕 Since 1989, the SYDA Foundation - the organization that "protects, preserves, and facilitates the dissemination of the Siddha Yoga teachings" - has sponsored the Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive given globally each year, previously through satellite broadcasts, and now digitally prerecorded.〔 Between 1989 and 2006, Chidvilasananda wrote nine books of spiritual discourses, three books of poetry and three books of spiritual stories for children. These books were published by the SYDA Foundation.〔http://siddhayogabookstore.org/books-Gurumayi_Chidvilsananda.aspx, retrieved November 18, 2014〕 According to the SYDA Foundation, Chidvilasananda's books have been published in 14 languages.〔Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Sadhana of the Heart, vol. 1, (South Fallsburg, NY: SYDA Foundation, 2006; second printing 2011), page 16〕 Each year, on January 1, Chidvilasananda gives a spiritual message that Siddha Yoga students may contemplate and practice. Since 2012, Chidvilasananda has taught on the Siddha Yoga path website.〔http://www.siddhayoga.org/〕 In addition to her teaching through books, lectures and via the Siddha Yoga path website, Chidvilasananda has also demonstrated the spiritual practice of chanting through live and recorded chants. In the opinion of some, Chidvilasananda "is a superb singer", with a "deep, resonant contralto" voice which she uses to great effect when leading her devotees in chanting.〔Linda Johnsen 1994, pages 76–77〕 She has recorded several CDs of chanting, including the mantra ''"Om Namah Shivaya"''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurumayi Chidvilasananda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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