[Александр Г.]

Swami Satyeswarananda Vidyaratna Babaji

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Salient Points in the life of Vidyaratna Babaji

• Educated as a resident student for eight years in the high school of Yogananda's hermitage.
• Associated twenty years (since 1951) with Swami Satyananda, the chief monastic disciple of Swami Sriyukteswar in India.
• Graduated from the University of Calcutta with a B.A. Philosophy Honors, received an M.A. in philosophy specializing in Vedanta philosophy, concurrently received a LL. B. (law) degree, and also worked for Ph.D. program.
• Served as professor of law and worked as an attorney.
• Entered the order of Swami with the blessings of Sankarachaya Swami Krishna Tirtha Bharati of Puri Gobardhan Math and Bidyananda presided the ceremony.
• Lived in a small hut and sometimes in a cave in his meditative-life twelve (12) years in Dunagiri Hill, HIMALAYAS; sometime with Mahamuni Babaji who frequently visited him.
• He observed CONTINUOUS SILENCE . . . (akhanda mouna) for three long years and was known as Silent Sage, Mouni Swami, Mouni Baba etc.
• Received "Kriya Sutras" (in 1974), the message of Mahamuni Babaji, the Divine Himalayan Yogi.
• At the instruction of Mahamuni Babaji he toured and lectured in European countries in 1975.
• Mahamuni Babaji initiated Vidyaratna Babaji into Purna Kriya in the Himalayas in 1976 and commissioned him to re-establish the Original Kriya.
• After six years of commission, Mahamuni Babaji sent Vidyaratna Babaji to America in 1982. He has lived in America ever since.
• Authored thirty (30) books including Babaji and His Legacy, The Divine Incarnation, Biography of a Yogi, The Six Systems, etc.
• As a sannyasi, he lives and stays alone; and eats meals prepared by himself (swapak). Like Mahamuni Babaji and Lahiri Mahasay, he is free of asrams, centers and organizations.
• As a servant of all (sakaler das) he serves only the qualified and serious seekers of truth from San Diego.