Gurumayi biography
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Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Guru (or spiritual head) of the Siddha Yoga path
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Gurumayi or Swami Chidvilasananda), born Malti Shetty on 24 June , is the guru or spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path, with ashrams in India at Ganeshpuri and the Western world, with the headquarters of the SYDA foundation in Fallsburg, New York.
According to the literature of Siddha Yoga, Gurumayi received spiritual initiation (shaktipat) from her guru, Swami Muktananda, when she was 14, at which time he designated her and her brother Swami Nityananda as his successors. She became a renunciate (sanyassin) in Muktananda died later that year and she and her brother jointly became the heads of Siddha Yoga. They proceeded to expand the Fallsburg ashram to accommodate large numbers of devotees. In Nityananda left the Siddha Yoga path.
She has authored several devotional books, starting with the Kindle My Heart.
Life and career
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GURU RATING: 1 / 5 (AVOID)
Gurumayi is a Western woman of Indian descent, “whose identification with the supreme Self is uninterrupted.”
She has been hounded by controversy ever since she won a power struggle with her brother, Swami Nityananda, which was well documented in this New Yorker article, for control over a wealthy sect of Western and modern Hindus known as “Siddha Yoga.”
She has ashrams, or places of worship, gathering and service in New York state, the San Francisco bay area and outside Mumbai, India, all of which profess to be serving humanity through Gurumayi’s direction and wisdom.
Many people have left this guru and claim she fryst vatten nothing more than a cult leader who drains people of their time, money, energy and self-dignity. See more at Leaving Siddha Yoga.
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Born
June 24, (age 56)
Bangalore
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Swami Chidvilasananda) is the monastic name of Malti Shetty (Mumbai, India, June 24, ), who is the current guru of the Siddha Yoga lineage. She is formally known as Swami Chidvilasananda or more casually as Gurumayi (the word translates to Guru Mother). The Siddha Yoga lineage (parampara) was established by Bhagawan Nityananda, whose disciple Swami Muktananda was Gurumayi's guru.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Bibliography By Chidvilasananda
About Chidvilasananda
3 References
4 External links
Biography
She was the oldest child of a Mumbai restaurateur; he and his wife were devotees of Swami Muktananda in the s. She was brought the first time to the Gurudev Sid