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Sivananda Saraswati

1887 - 1963

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Swami Sivananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Śivānanda Sarasvatī; 8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963), 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. He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (DLS) in 1936, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and the author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sivananda Saraswati is the 526th most popular philosopher (down from 491st in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from India (down from 168th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 526 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Löwith, Huiyuan, Giles of Rome, Madhvacharya, Ludwig Büchner, and Anaxarchus. After him are Manuel Chrysoloras, Charles Taylor, Saul Kripke, Karl-Otto Apel, Polemon, and Ahmad Sirhindi.

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Among people born in 1887, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 69. Before him are Josef Čapek, Frederick Fleet, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Joseph Bech, and Savielly Tartakower. After him are James Paul Moody, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Conrad Hilton, Marcus Garvey, Paul Wittgenstein, and Ernst Hanfstaengl. Among people deceased in 1963, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 45. Before him are Piero Manzoni, Michael Rockefeller, Sabu Dastagir, Pedro Armendáriz, Sylvanus Olympio, and Mohammad Ali Bogra. After him are Remedios Varo, Rikidōzan, Alois Hudal, Hubert Pierlot, Alexander Marinesko, and Eduard Spranger.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 222 out of 1,861. Before him are Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Deepak Chopra (1946), Mumtaz (1947), Parshvanatha (-872), Sikandar Lodi (1450), and Madhvacharya (1199). After him are James Brooke (1803), Khaleda Zia (1945), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Shilpa Shetty (1975), and Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 24. Before him are Chandrakirti (600), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Shantideva (685), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), and Madhvacharya (1199). After him are Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Dignāga (480), Hemachandra (1089), Ravidas (1450), and Vallabha (1479).

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