From: classics@crash.cts.com (Baruch Schwartz)
Subject: Himalayan Yogi in San Diego
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Date: 15 Dec 92 20:36:24 PST

*** HIMALYAN YOGI ON-LINE ***


    The Himalayan Yogi Swami Satyeswarananda Giri Maharaj was born in
Bengal, India. (Satya-Iswara-Ananda: Satya means "Truth," Iswara "God,"
and Ananda "Bliss.")

    He studied for eight years in the hermitage of Paramhansa Yogananda,
where he met Swami Satyananda, Swami Sriyukteswar's chief monastic
disciple for the East. (Sriyukteswar selected Satyananda as leader for
the East and Yogananda as leader for the West.)

    Young Satyeswarananda was associated with, studied Kriya under and
received his monastic training from Satyananda for the next twenty
years. He worked intimately with Satyananda, managing his service
activities while living together with him in a modest lifestyle, sharing
a small thatched hut.

    His responsibilities were tremendous and included the organization
and administration of hermitages in charge of general and technical
schools, a postgraduate teacher's training college, printing press,
library and a hospital. Many of these institutions were government
sponsored, and almost all were residential.

    Satyeswarananda also helped Satyananda in all aspects of service
activities while accompanying him up and down the country, holding
lectures and seminars and attending thousands of Kriya followers.

    In the meanwhile, Satyeswarananda received concurrently a Master of
Arts (M.A.) degree in philosophy, specializing in the Vedanta branch of
Indian philosophy, and a law degree (LL.B.) from Calcutta University.

    He was both a practicing attorney and Professor of Law at the State
Government College at Calcutta University.

    He taught in English. He is an accomplished Sanskrit scholar and is
also conversant in several modern languages, among them Hindi and
Italian. He is author of twenty two books including Babaji: The Divine
Himalayan Yogi and Lahiri Mahasay: The Father of Kriya Yoga.

    Satyeswarananda joined the Swami order with the blessings of His
Holiness Jagat Guru Sankaracharya Bharati Krisna Tirtha of Puri. Jagat
Guru's Swami disciple, Bidyananda, conducted the ceremony.

    When Satyananda left his body, Satyeswarananda, or Baba - as he is
popularly called - left for Dunagiri Hill in the Himalayas, where he
used to go every summer for Kriya practice.

    The first three years he observed continual silence and became known
as "Mouni Baba", or the "Silent Sage." Altogether Baba stayed in the
Himalayas for twelve years, living in a small hut and a cave, often
together with Mahamuni Babaji, and at times, with Babaji and his
disciples.

    Satyeswarananda was initiated into Purna (Complete) Kriya by
Mahamuni Babaji. Mahamuni Babaji sent Baba to Europe in 1975 with the
message of Kriya Yoga Bijnan. His instructions were to revive the
practice of pure, integral and authentic Kriya Yoga as taught directly
by Babaji.

    In 1982, Satyeswarananda was sent to the United States by Babaji, to
bring the message of the original Kriya Yoga Science.  Baba teaches very
sincere seekers of Truth from San Diego, the seat of Energy (Sakti Pith).

Copyright 1992 The Sanskrit Classics
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San Diego, CA 92165