Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)

Sivananda Saraswati

1887–1963, born Pattamadai, writes in Hindi, writer, autobiographer

Swami Sivananda Saraswati, also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

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