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Satchidananda Saraswati (22 December 1914 – 19 August 2002), born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder and known as Swami Satchidananda, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West. He was the author of many philosophical and spiritual books. He had an enormous core of founding disciples who compiled and requested of Satchidananda Saraswati updated traditional handbooks of yoga such as the ''Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'' and the ''Bhagavad Gita'' for modern readers, both with his incisive insights as a Yogiraj, master yogi, and as a master of humorous parables. Photographer George Hausman masterfully captured the elegant physique of Satchidananda Saraswati for Integral Yoga Hatha, the manual for many who began yoga studies since the 1960s. The international school ''Satchidananda Jothi Niketan'' located in Mettupalyam, Tamil Nadu. ==Early years== Satchidananda was born in 1914 into the pious Gounder family at Chettipalayam, a small village in Coimbatore, near Podanur in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and was named as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder. His parents affectionately called him ''Ramu''. He was Perur Temple manager early in his life. He remained a vegetarian all his life, and later wrote a book called ''The Healthy Vegetarian''.〔Sri Swami Satchidananda, ''The Healthy Vegetarian'', Integral Yoga Publications, third edition, 1994, p. 115.〕 After study at agricultural college, he worked in a family business which imported motorcycles. At age of 23 he became a manager at India's National Electric Works. He married and had two sons. His wife died suddenly five years later. Ramaswamy's children remained with his mother Sri Vellamai, and he embarked on an arduous life of an ascetic yogi for many years practising and mastering classical yoga.〔''Swami Satchidananda: His Biography'', Straight Arrow Books, First Edition, 1970.〕 ''Apostle of Peace'', his later biography, includes many details updated in the 1990s. 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「Satchidananda Saraswati」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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