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Muktananda (Krishna Rai) was born on 16 May, 1908 in Mangalore, Madras Presidency, British India, is a Yoga guru who founded Siddha Yoga (1908–1982). Discover Muktananda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Krishna Rai
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 16 May 1908
Birthday 16 May
Birthplace Mangalore, Madras Presidency, British India
Date of death 2 October, 1982
Died Place Ganeshpuri, Maharashtra, India
Nationality India

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1908

Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa (16 May 1908 – 2 October 1982), born Krishna Rai, was a yoga guru and the founder of Siddha Yoga.

He was a disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda.

He wrote books on the subjects of Kundalini Shakti, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, including a spiritual autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness.

In honorific style, he is often referred to as Swami Muktananda, or Baba Muktananda, or in a familiar way just Baba.

Swami Muktananda was born in 1908 near Mangalore in Madras Presidency, British India, to a wealthy family.

His birth name was Krishna Rai.

At 15, he encountered Bhagawan Nityananda, a wandering avadhoot who profoundly changed his life.

After this encounter, Krishna left home and began his search for the experience of God.

He studied under Siddharudha Swami in Hubli, where he learned Sanskrit, Vedanta, and all branches of yoga.

He received sannyasa initiation in the Sarasvati order of the Dashanami Sampradaya, taking the name of Swami Muktananda.

After Siddharudha's death, Muktananda left to study with a disciple of Siddharudha called Muppinarya Swami at his Sri Airani Holematt in Ranebennur Haveri District.

Then Swami Muktananda began wandering India on foot, studying with many different saints and gurus.

1947

In 1947, Muktananda went to Ganeshpuri to receive the darshan of Bhagavan Nityananda, who had originally inspired Muktananda's search for God.

He received shaktipat initiation from him on August 15 of that year.

Muktananda often said that his spiritual journey did not truly begin until he received shaktipat from Nityananda.

He described it as a profound and sublime experience.

For the next nine years, Muktananda lived and meditated in a small hut in Yeola.

He wrote about his sadhana and kundalini-related meditation experiences in his autobiography.

1956

In 1956, Bhagawan Nityananda acknowledged the culmination of Muktananda's spiritual journey.

He appointed Muktananda as the leader of an ashram in Ganeshpuri, near Bombay.

The same year he started teaching his Siddha Yoga path.

1970

Between 1970 and 1981, Muktananda went on three world tours.

During these tours, he established Siddha Yoga ashrams and meditation centers in many countries.

1975

In 1975, he founded the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Oakland in the San Francisco Bay area.

In Gurus of Modern Yoga, Andrea Jain, in her chapter on Muktananda, quotes an anonymous source, who describes his moment of shaktipat, when he was 19 years old, conferred by Muktananda with a wand of peacock feathers in 1975:

1979

In 1979, he established Shree Nityananda Ashram (now Shree Muktananda Ashram) in the Catskills, northwest of New York City.

Muktananda established Gurudev Siddha Peeth as a public trust in India to administer his work there.

He founded the SYDA Foundation in the United States to administer the global work of Siddha Yoga meditation.

He wrote many books, sixteen of which are still in print with the SYDA Foundation.

1982

In May 1982, Muktananda appointed two successors, Swami Chidvilasananda and her younger brother, Swami Nityananda, as joint leaders of Siddha Yoga.

Nityananda later resigned and formed his own group.

Muktananda died in October 1982 in Gurudev Siddha Peeth in Ganeshpuri, India.

He is buried in his samādhi shrine there.

Central to his teachings were to "See God in each other", and "Honor your Self. Worship your Self. Meditate on your Self. God dwells within you as you."

Muktananda often gave a shorter version of this teaching: "God dwells within you as you."

According to Lola Williamson, Muktananda was known as a "shaktipat guru because kundalini awakening occurred so readily in his presence".

Through Shaktipat Intensives participants were said to receive shaktipat initiation, the awakening of Kundalini Shakti that is said to reside within a person, and to deepen their practice of Siddha Yoga meditation.

Historically, Shaktipat initiation had been reserved for the few who had done many years of spiritual service and practices; Muktananda offered this initiation to newcomers and yogis alike.

There are several published accounts that describe the reception of shaktipat from Muktananda.

Paul Zweig wrote one such account of receiving shaktipat from Muktananda.