Siddha Yoga - An Introduction
Siddha
Yoga is a spiritual path based on the highest principles of
life. Siddha Yoga teaches us to identify and love the light, truth, and
peace within every human being. Siddha Yoga endeavors to bring about oneness
on the earth, knowledge, a search for the inner consciousness, and the
attainment of one's own Self. The heart of Siddha Yoga is meditation on
the Self.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda is the living Siddha master of Siddha Yoga,
and the successor of a great unbroken lineage of spiritual masters. She
was born into Siddha Yoga and grew up at the feet of her master, Swami
Muktananda. At a very young age she dedicated herself entirely to her
Guru and Siddha Yoga, and at the age of twenty-six she took the vows of
monkhood. Before Swami Muktananda passed away in 1982, he empowered Gurumayi
with the vast spiritual legacy that his own Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda,
had left to him.
Baba was born in Mangalore, south India, in 1908. He came from a wealthy
family, but became a renunciate as a teenager, whereupon he was given
the name Muktananda. For the next twenty-five years he wandered throughout
India on foot, learning from many of the great sages and saints of his
day. In 1947, at age thirty-nine, Baba met Bhagawan Nityananda, one of
the greatest saints of India in recent times and Master of the Siddha
lineage. Baba studied under Nityananda for nine years and achieved self-realization
under his guidance. Swami Muktananda introduced Siddha to the West, and
initiated hundreds of thousands into the Siddha path. Since then Gurumayi
has continued to evolve the teachings and makes regular world tours, initiating
many thousands into Siddha Yoga. Today Siddha Yoga is one of the largest
forms of yoga practiced in the West
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