Complex sentence: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami was born in California in 1927, as a young man of 20, in 1947, he journeyed to India and Sri Lanka in search of his guru.
Split into simpler sentences: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami was born in California in 1927. As a young man of 20, he journeyed to India and Sri Lanka in search of his guru.