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	Siddha Yoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Disciples were attracted partly by the drama of Muktananda's technique, which focused on the development of psychic powers, such as seeing inner light.
		As with many Indian gurus, shaktipat is transmitted primarily through darshan, which may be an intimate gathering but can also take place on a grand scale, as with Gurumayi's recent visit to London where she presided over a conference centre holding 5000 people.
		Muktananda's approach is non-intellectual so the symbolism is not formalized, but some of his and Gurumayi's teachings are collected in books.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/ascetic/siddha.html (518 words)

	Swami Muktananda - Siddha Yoga Meditation
		Though as a young man Muktananda gained recognition for his yogic attainments, Swami Muktananda often said that his spiritual journey didn't truly begin until he received shaktipat, spiritual initiation, from the holy man Bhagawan Nityananda.
		Muktananda established Gurudev Siddha Peeth as a public trust in India to administer the work there, and founded the SYDA Foundation in the United States to administer the global work of Siddha Yoga meditation.
		Muktananda also established more than six hundred meditation centers and a number of ashrams around the world.
	www.siddhayoga.org /guru-muktananda-baba.html (280 words)

	Muktananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Yet, it did not seem that Muktananda was causing this because I felt it even before I met him, and also after he was long-dead.
		It was clear that Muktananda knew he was gong to die soon.
		Muktananda's swamis also tend to be negative towards Advaita, including Shankarananda, who didn't like any of my teachers.
	www.itisnotreal.com /practices.html (2142 words)

	The Secret Life of Swami Muktananda
		Muktananda had intercourse with Jennifer for an hour, she said, and was quite proud of the fact.
		Muktananda had phoned him the morning before the beating, and told him Trout’s ego was getting too big, and that he was sending Sripati to set him straight.
		Muktananda’s two successors were at the Oakland ashram in May end I asked Swami Chidvilasananda about the accusations against her guru.
	www.leavingsiddhayoga.net /secret.htm (5363 words)

	Stuart's Siddha Yoga Experience
		Muktananda had sent two of his most physically imposing followers to visit Chandra and intimidate her from writing the book.
		Muktananda had taught that the guru is perfect, could always answer all our questions and tell us the right thing to do.
		Muktananda was dead by the time all this came to light, and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda was a guru of Siddha Yoga.
	home.comcast.net /~sresnick2/systory.htm (797 words)

	The History of Siddha Yoga
		SYDA claims that Muktananda was given the lineage by Swami Nityananda (c.1900 – 1961) of Ganeshpuri.
		Muktananda (1908 –; 1982) gave the lineage to Swami Nityananda (1963-) and Swami Chidvilasananda (1955 -), brother and sister.
		Muktananda did say that Nityananda was entering the "university" and time would tell if he graduated or not.
	www.leavingsiddhayoga.net /history.htm (1790 words)

	Appendix II: The Confrontation and Break with Muktananda
		In the summer of 1969 Muktananda, in a formal letter, gave his disciple the name "Dhyananda", as a sign that Franklin had "sought and found peace in meditation" and had become "a promising student of Shree Gurudev Ashram".
		Muktananda acknowledged in this letter that the kundalini energy had become activated in Franklin, and "The Inner Self which is the secret of Vedanta, the basis of religion, the realization of which is the ultimate object of human life, is awakened in you."
		Swami Muktananda's responses to the first three questions indicated that he could not confirm and acknowledge Bubba's realization because he did not acknowledge the realization of the Heart at all.
	www.lightmind.com /Impermanence/Library/knee/appendix2.html (2824 words)

	"Swami Muktananda Paramahansa: 1909-1982" af Neil T. Duddy - Dialogcentret.dk
		Muktananda, whose own guru was the famous Swami Nityananda, taught the spiritual disciplines of Siddha and Kriya Yoga, both of which induce highly altered states of consciousness.
		The teachings of Muktananda will be passed on through Swami Chidvilasananda, age 24, and Swami Nityananda, age 20, as they make a tour of the meditation centers to consolidate their leadership positions.
		Muktananda began grooming the sister and brother 15 years ago, supervising their spiritual discipline so they could become his successors.
	www.dci.dk /?artikel=416 (384 words)

	Michael Graham - Martin Roth Christian Commentary
		As one of the first Western disciples of Swami Muktananda Paramanansa, who was to become a leading figure in America and elsewhere with his teachings of Siddha (perfect being) yoga, Michael helped manage his ashram (spiritual centre) in India, with up to 2,600 Westerners there at one time.
		Michael, with Muktananda’s Siddha yoga as his core practice, returned to India several times, but studied and practised under other gurus also, some of whom were to become famous (and in some cases, infamous) in the West, such as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
		Muktananda was attracting huge numbers of followers, including famous names like John Denver—whom Michael remembers coming daily to the Santa Monica ashram and often singing for all the students—along with Diana Ross, actors Raul Julia and Olivia Hussey, and former California Governor Jerry Brown.
	www.martinrothonline.com /Michael-Alive.htm (1819 words)

	SHANTI MANDIR - Swami Muktananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For Muktananda was an unparalled embodiment of his name - The Bliss of Freedom.
		Born in India in 1908, Muktananda left home at the age of 15 in search of God.
		Muktananda had the ability to give people a direct experience of their own inner Truth.
	www.shantimandir.com /album/baba.htm (195 words)

	O Guru, Guru, Guru
		Swami Muktananda, who died in October, 1982, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the most prominent of the numerous Indian spiritual teachers who flourished in the United States two decades ago.
		By contrast, Muktananda used to give interviews liberally, even appearing on numerous TV shows (including one in Santa Monica in 1980 on which he gave the interviewer shaktipat, as the transmission of spiritual power from guru to disciple is called, during the commercial break), and in Gurumayi's early days as guru she herself gave several.
		The closest Muktananda ever came to explaining his behavior, some say, was in the oblique form of a talk given by Pratap Yande, a longtime Indian devotee, shortly before the guru's death and published after it, in the October, 1982, issue of Siddha Path, the sect's monthly magazine.
	www.rickross.com /reference/siddha/siddha1.html (9765 words)

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		Muktananda recognized Nityananda as his Guru, studied with him, and was initiated into the Yoga of the Siddhas.
		This particular interview with Muktananda was conducted in the summer of 1979 at Muktananda's Catskill Mountain ashram.
		Muktananda's discussion of stillness revealed something very deep to me, as if it solved a certain koan that's been tugging at me for a long time.
	www.lexhixon.org /simplesite/pressrevision.html (3691 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Oct 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Muktananda's primary teaching was "Honor your self, worship your Self, kneel to your self, God dwells within you as you." Anyone can say these words, but Swam Muktananda - or Baba, as we who loved him called him - could transmit the experience of inner divinity.
		In Muktananda's autobiography he says, "All three important factors - divine Shaktipat, the grace of a great Siddha and a burning desire for God-realization - had combined." Nityananda sent him to Yeola to meditate, and for eight years, living in a little hut, he underwent extraordinary yogic experiences sparked by his initiation.
		Swami Muktananda was buried in the dhyan mandir, in the spot of earth that had been given to him by his beloved guru Nityananda.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1992/10/1992-10-03.shtml (2206 words)

	Stripping the Gurus—Sixty Minutes
		ORN IN 1908 IN India, Swami Muktananda, like Neem Karoli Baba, was a disciple of the respected guru Bhagawan Nityananda, whom he met in 1947.
		Muktananda advised his devotees to refrain from sex....
		After decades in the ashrams of the “fully enlightened” Muktananda and his successor, she returned to the secular world in 2002, to teach.
	www.strippingthegurus.com /stgsamplechapters/muktananda.asp (1042 words)

	Swami muktananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They swami muktananda worked swami muktananda on he was for some swami muktananda of the pilgrims and on fox.
		Swami muktananda this was the american swami muktananda people declaring death of his awakening experience.
		Suri was born in the ashram to a congressional investigation by a flash.
	swami.fubarnewscorporation.com /swami-muktananda.html (1793 words)

	Da Free John / Adidam / Adi Da Samraj
		Franklin Jones, he was a follower for a while of Swami Muktananda.
		Muktananda gave him the name "Dhyanananda" which means "he whose bliss comes through meditation." Muktananda authorized him to teach then, but Da did not do so because he felt that his enlightenment was incomplete.
		Da Free John, which is the name I still think of him as, owing to the fact that when I read his stuff he still went under that name.
	www.kheper.net /topics/gurus/Da.htm (2931 words)

	Yogamatters Muktananda
		Swami Muktananda's discussion of meditation sparks enthusiasm for pursuing this practice and its highest goal, Self-realization. This classic text is an invaluable source of wisdom and inspiration for both beginners and experienced meditators.
		Swami Muktananda reveals the inner dynamics of the mystical relationship between a student and a spiritual master. Rare insights into the spiritual journey are woven together with philosophy, poetry, and illuminating extracts from great texts of the Eastern tradition
		This best selling spiritual autobiography of Swami Muktananda tells the story of his journey to self-realization under the guidance of Bhagawan Nityananda,; candidly describing his extraordinary experiences. Beginning with his spiritual initiation on August 15, 1947, and continuing through his enlightenment nine years later, this is a guide for seekers moving toward the same goal.
	www.yogamatters.com /acatalog/Muktananda.html (688 words)

	Shree Muktananda Ashram
		As you may know, the SYDA Foundation was created to support what Swami Muktananda called “the meditation revolution.” Since Baba’s Mahasamadhi twenty-three years ago, Siddha Yoga meditation has continued to flourish under the auspices of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, the spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga mission.
		The long-range plan for Shree Muktananda Ashram is to develop the ashram along the lines of Gurudev Siddha Peeth, our mother ashram in India.
		Until then, Shree Muktananda Ashram will continue to function as an ashram solely for long-term retreat participants offering full time guruseva and those participating in specific short-term seva projects that are paramount to achieving this goal.
	www.siddhayoga.org /shree-muktananda-ashram.html (869 words)

	Sahaja Yoga's Historical Background
		Swami Muktananda was an exponent of a form of yoga that emphasised shaktipat as a means of spontaneous kundalini awakening.
		Muktananda had already begun to spread Siddha Yoga widely in the West.
		Shri Mataji's visits to Rajneesh and Muktananda are also often presented in Sahaja Yoga as part of a wider project in which Shri Mataji visited many modern gurus and exposed them as incarnations of demons.
	members.tripod.com /toutsursahajayoga/origins.htm (1837 words)

	About Rudi - Asian and Tribal Art - Dan Cook / Rudi South Inc.
		Swami Muktananda was to give a lecture at a yoga center, but the lecture was not open to the public.
		As Swami Muktananda was speaking and Professor Jain interpreting for the audience, I couldn't help being attracted to a man who seemed to represent everything unanswered in my life.
		After the lecture, the audience rushed to meet Swami Muktananda, but I wanted to know who this person was that seemed to open my heart so deeply without mentioning a word.
	www.rudisouth.com /about.html (390 words)

	Siddha Yoga Meditation Australia - Shree Muktananda Ashram
		Shree Muktananda Ashram was inspired by Swami Muktananda's own experience of ashrams in India.
		The ashram also houses the temple of Baba Muktananda's Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda; the Temple is both an abode of blessing and a sacred space for prayer and meditation.
		Shree Muktananda Ashram provides a supportive setting for an extended immersion in ashram life, as well as a tranquil place for short, focused spiritual retreat.
	www.siddhayoga.org.au /community/overseas/sma.htm (220 words)

	Swami Muktananda's letter of acknowledgement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Marathi language was Swami Muktananda's native tongue, and the letter, written in Hindi interspersed with Sanskrit, presented many problems for interpreters and translators.
		The first initial rough translation was prepared by a group of Swami Muktananda's aides, and due to the difficulty, took over two weeks before it was given to Sri Adi Da.
		In 1989, a definitive word for word transliteration was obtained from a former translator for Swami Muktananda who had lived with the Swami for many years and not only read his handwriting with ease, but was also familiar with his use of words and manners of expression.
	www.dabase.net /muk-let.htm (379 words)

	Some info about Muktananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most profound of these were all due to meetings with a most remarkable man. He was known as Muktananda which translates as "The Bliss Liberator".
		The experiences that I had in his company were both liberating, in the most total sense of the word, as well as ecstatically blissful.
		Muktananda lived in Ganeshpuri, a tiny village a couple of hours from Bombay, India, and travelled all over the world for the last few years of his life, transmitting his ancient wisdom and power to millions of people, both in India and the rest of the world.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~grjallen/mukta.htm (323 words)

	Siddha Yoga Meditation Center--Profile
		Siddha Yoga meditation is the spiritual path rooted in the timeless teachings of the Siddhas, the spiritual masters of India and is headed by Swami Gurumayi Chidvilasananda whom Swami Muktananda chose in 1982 as his successor.
		Gurumayi also resides in Shri Muktananda Ashram in South Fallsburg, New York State but continues to travel and to bring the teachings of Siddha Yoga to seekers around the world.
		Swami (Baba) Muktananda brought the path of Siddha Yoga meditation to the West and created the first Intensive in 1974 in Aspen, Colorado.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~pluralsm/affiliates/greenberg/siddha_index.html (1574 words)

	Swami Muktananda
		Below are excerpts by someone who studied with him and was in discipleship to him for the last 30-odd years, including since he "left the body." G. Harsha Adler King is also contributing "The Tradition of Crazy Wisdom" to the "Life Page One" exhibit of the Het Toreke Museum.
		Swami Muktananda's teachings were extremely sober and concise: not a word, not a gesture that was superfluous.
		The incident with the flying pans could not be absorbed and classified by the rational mind, as e.g., the consequence of some negligence.
	www.marharrell.com /Pages/g.htm (1222 words)

	Books by Swami Muktananda
		Swami Muktananda, often referred to as Baba, brought the powerful and rare initiation known as shaktipat to the West at the command of his own Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda.
		As the inheritor of a great lineage of spiritual Masters, Baba Muktananda introduced the Siddha Yoga path all over the world, creating what he called a "meditation revolution".
		Swami Muktananda wrote many books; one of the most famous is Play of Consciousness, his extraordinary spiritual autobiography.
	www.bookstore.siddhayoga.org /Templates/frmTemplateM1.asp?SubFolderID=214&SearchYN=N (251 words)

	Yogatherapycenter.org : : Sharing
		Baba Muktananda encouraged him to make Yoga his profession and gave him the name Mukunda, an aspect of the Divine Presence as the compassionate liberator.
		Mukunda was certified to teach Muktananda’s meditation method, as well as hatha and raja yoga.
		Mukunda was Yoga instructor at four of Muktananda's ashrams in the US and in India.
	www.yogatherapycenter.org /about.html (848 words)

	Books and Reference Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book is the fascinating account of Muktananda's encounter with Nityananda and his subsequent visions and meditation states as his Kundalini Shakti was aroused and pierced through the various chakra centers, conferring ever higher states of consciousness.
		His accounts are conversational in tone and vivid in evoking images of the incidents that formed the relationship of the sadhaka that was the young Muktananda, and the God-realized Avadhut Nityananda, who took birth as a fully enlightened being.
		Muktananda speaks about his experiences of enlightenment, the mysteries of the hidden work carried on by Siddhas such as Nityananda, other realms of consciousness, the nature of Shakti and Shaktipat, Avatars, Kundalini, karma, rebirth, UFOs and the nature of the universe, and many diverse and interesting topics.
	www.cosmicharmony.com /Bibliog.htm (2874 words)

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