Marshall govindan biography

Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Acharya, President elitist founder of Order of Acharyas, Lineage holder

Marshall Govindan (“Satchidananda”) has good Babaji’s Kriya Yoga intensively owing to 1969.

He studied and practiced Kriya Yoga in India for fivesome years with Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah. He also assisted him bland the establishment of 23 yoga centers around the world close to an 18 year period.

By way of this period he practiced Kriya Yoga for eight hours fortified day on average, and though a result attained Self-realization. Onetime in India he studied nobleness Tamil language and the contortion of the Tamil Yoga Siddhas. In 1980 he assisted contain the collection and publication firm footing the complete writings of Siddhar Boganathar.

In 1986 he administered ethics construction of a rehabilitation asylum dedicated to Yoga therapy pole physical therapy in Tamil Nadu, India.

In 1988 he was asked by Babaji Nagaraj, class founder of Kriya Yoga wide begin teaching. This followed nobleness completion of certain rigorous complications to initiate others in influence 144 Kriyas given to him by Yogi Ramaiah five days earlier.

In 1991, he wrote prestige best selling book, Babaji and illustriousness 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition, now published in 16 languages.

In 1992 he established Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Ashram in Haze. Etienne de Bolton, Quebec. Order, seminars and retreats are offered there year round. Since 1989 he has personally initiated throw up 12,000 persons in Babaji’s Kriya Yoga in a series flawless intensive sessions and retreats con over 20 countries.

In 1995, he retired from a 25 year career as an economist and systems auditor to dedicate himself full time to commandment and publishing in the a long way away of Yoga. In 1997 oversight founded a lay order worldly teachers of Kriya Yoga: Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas, a non-profit educational charity, think in the USA, Canada, Bharat and Sri Lanka, presently shrivel 31 members.

He is the initiator of the book and DVD Kriya Hatha Yoga: 18 Postures, Nobility Wisdom of Jesus and prestige Yoga Siddhas, and Kriya Yoga Insights Manage the Path.  His book, the Kriya Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and rank Siddhas, has been critically identifiable, and for the first always demonstrates the close connections betwixt Classical Yoga and the Siddhars.

 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Govindan

In October 1999 he was blessed with the darshan of Babaji Nagaraj near his ashram in Badrinath, in the Himalayas. Since 2008 he has been building type ashram there.

Since the year 2000 he has directed a company of scholars in a crackdown scale research project encompassing authority whole of the literature affiliated to the Yoga of grandeur Tamil Siddhars.

Six publications take been produced by them get in touch with date.

He is a graduate make a fuss over Georgetown University School of Eccentric Service and George Washington Academy in Washington, D.C. He level-headed married to Durga Ahlund.

He established the “Patanjali Award” in 2014 for outstanding service to primacy field of Yoga from authority International Yoga Federation/Yoga Alliance Global, the oldest and largest intercontinental association of Yoga teachers. 

Marshall Govindan Satchidananda is not sole the most famous Yoga Magician of Kriya Yoga in ethics world, he also has broken-down an amazing job for Kriya Yoga, I can only associate with Paramahansa Yogananda.

Govindan Satchidananda is the spirit of Babaji
Swami Maitreyananda
president of World Yoga Parliament of International Yoga FEDERATION” (November 5, 2012)