SAINTS & TEACHERS

(The pictures below link to the teachers' websites)

KALI RAY in CINTI, OH in 2004

SRI GANAPATHI SACHIDANANDA SWAMIJI of MYSORE, INDIA visiting Datta Retreat Ctr in PA

Kali Ray (left) has received international recognition for her teaching of TriYoga®, a flowing approach to hatha yoga practice that integrates asana, pranayam, and meditation. She is the senior disciple of Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda (right). She attributes her practice to the spontaneous flow of prana awakened by her guru.

Sri Karunamayi (below left) visited Ohio in 2006. Karunamayi inspired and guided our recitations of the Moksha (liberation) mantra.

SRI KARUNAMAYI, the Compassionate Mother

Swami Dayananda (below) is a master of Vedantic philosophy, the study of which is a form of Jnana (wisdom) yoga.

SWAMI DAYANANDA

Mother Krishnabai & Papa Ram Das

(left) Mother Krishnabai & Papa Ramdas
founded Anandashram in South India.
The practice of the ashram was to
continuously chant the mantra
"OM Sri Ram jay Ram jay jay Ram".
Mother Krishnabai & Papa Ram Das advocated
seeing and serving the Divine in everyone.

ANANDAMAYI MA (1896-1982), the Blissful Mother

(left) Anandamayi Ma is noted as one of the most beloved Indian saints of all time. Her graceful shaktipat (divine blessing) gave followers a direct experience of the bliss, peace, and power of God-realizatiion.

"The moment that has passed does not come back. Time must be used well. Only when spent in the effort to know 'who am I?' has it been used well"

"My own true nature is peace, knowledge, divine consciousness; unless and until this is realized, how can there be peace? In order to find your Self, you must become revealed to yourself. How beautiful!"-Anandamayi Ma