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Yogendra Family Revivalists of Holistic Health The Legendary Yogendra Family revivalists of holistic health sadhakas of the yoga institute The Legendary Yogendra Family revivalists of holistic health sadhakas of the yoga institute © WORLD COPYRIGHT THE YOGA INSTITUTE, SANTACRUZ First edition: October 2015 Published on the occasion of the 68th Birthday of Smt Hansa Jayadeva Yogendra, Director – The Yoga Institute, Santacruz DEDICATED TO OUR VENERATED GURUS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WHO HAVE BROUGHT US The contents of this book are copyright and must not be reproduced or translated in full or in TO OUR TRUE SELVES. part without prior permission of The Yoga Institute, Santacruz (E). Published by Dr Jayadeva Yogendra for The Yoga Institute, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 055, India. The World’s Oldest Organised The Yoga Institute, Santacruz, Mumbai Centre for Yoga Paramahamsa Madhavdasji Shri Yogendraji Smt Sita Devi Yogendra Dr Jayadeva Yogendra Smt Hansa J. Yogendra Shri Hrishi J. Yogendra The Legendary Yogendra Family Revivalists of Holistic Health and World Peace Perhaps the most Sadhakas of The Yoga The Yogendra For nearly a century, The magnanimity Through its misleading trait of a Institute, Santacruz, family’s spiritual the Yogendra of the Yogendras pioneering initiatives Yogi is that he looks Mumbai have been commitment to family has been is reflected in the in the fields of like an ordinary man. blessed with the humanity has transforming even sheer number of healthcare, sociocare This is probably why rare opportunity inspired them to work troubled individuals families they have and educare, the we fail to recognise of imbibing Yogic tirelessly for several into happy men, empowered—with Yogendra family has him even when he wisdom from not one decades, with a single women and children valuable insights on silently paved the stands only inches but four Yogis. aim: holistic health who are at peace with how to practise Yoga way for the ancient away from us. and the growth of themselves and the as a ‘Way of Life’. science of Yoga to consciousness. world at large. live on in the modern world. The Mission of a Yogi Yoga IS An Few know that Shri Yogendraji’s childhood was bereft of bhakti and Yoga. A skeptic in essential SCIENCE his younger days, Shri Yogendraji, who was formerly known as Mani, underwent an OF LIVING. astonishing transformation at age 18 when he met Paramahamsa Madhavdasji Maharaj. In the year 1916, one hundred It transforms years ago, Madhavdasji was a great sage who hailed from Madhavdasji and Kolkata, West Bengal. He was born in the year Mani came face to man from ignoble 1798 and lived to a grand age of 123 years. In the face for the first time. Madhavdasji span of his long and glorious life, Madhavdasji couldn’t take to noble. walked the length and breadth of India 11 his eyes off the times, accelerating the spiritual advancement spirited young Shri Yogendraji of seekers with his timeless yogic wisdom. lad. “When I see Founder, The Yoga Institute such a one, I gain strength,” said the Every legend has an indomitable Madhavdasji’s words and demeanour had such Master of Mani. hero. This one has Shri Yogendraji; an impact on Mani that he gave up his studies an unassuming man of untold yogic in St Xavier’s college, Mumbai and followed powers, Shri Yogendraji set into motion Madhavdasji to his ashram in Malsar, Gujarat. a great movement that drew Yoga out of the shadows of hidden caves and There he spent three years, learning the mysterious mountains into the lives of intricacies of Yoga from Paramahamsa himself. ordinary householders. It is for good reason that Shri Yogendraji is hailed as the Father of the Modern Yoga Renaissance in India and the world over. Under the masterful guidance of Paramahamsa Madhavdasji, Mani’s mind became so still and his focus so True to his word to his father, Shri Yogendraji crystallised that all knowledge suddenly surged to him. married Sita Devi in the year 1927 and became India’s firstHOUSEHOLDER ‘ YOGI’. Together, In a revelation akin to the Rishis receiving the Vedas, Shri Yogendraji received the secrets of Yoga as if from Shri Yogendraji and ‘Mother’ Sita Devi worked Heaven itself. Of this extraordinary experience Mani said: tirelessly to spread the message of Yoga in India and abroad. On December 25, 1918, Shri Yogendraji established Mani’s father, Shri Haribhai, insisted TheYoga Institute as a Not for Profit Organisation. that Mani give up The Institute operated out of the Versova house his yoga studies. of Dadabhai Naoroji, who we still remember as On the persuasion the Grand Old Man of India. From Mumbai, the of Madhavdasji Maharaj, Shri Institute shifted to USA in the year 1920. Eight “I know not how Nature Haribhai years later, it moved to Bulsar, Gujarat. In the year consented to disclosed her secrets to me 1936, it was established in Chowpatty, Mumbai. In allow Mani to but I found knowledge the year 1947, The Yoga Institute finally took root continue on the condition that in Santacruz, Mumbai where it stands even today. pouring in rapid continuity his son doesn’t become a sanyasi like a waterfall. My hands and that he settle were too small to contain it. into the life of a householder. I cried, I struggled and extended my hands. I found some scattered drops. My palm is again empty, for I give them.” The world’s first institute to impart practical and scientific knowledge on Yoga Shri Yogendraji was a prolific writer. He authored several books in English. Mother Sita Devi was the Shri Yogendraji spent first woman to write books on Yoga for women. Yoga Personal Hygiene, Yoga Asanas Simplified and Hatha Yoga Simplified written by Shri Yogendraji hours studying the along with Yoga Physical Education for Women by Smt Sita Devi have been buried in the CRYPT movement and effects of OF CIVILISATION for posterity, next to rare paintings, scientific instruments, costumes, and Four of Shri his own Prana. more articles. The crypt will be opened in the Yogendraji’s and year A.D. 8113 and will reveal to the coming Mother’s books Shri Yogendraji laid great emphasis on Yoga as an generations the authoritative knowledge of yoga have immense education in living and Yoga therapy was its by- So intense was his study as disclosed in our priceless books. historical product. Seventy years ago, when medical science significance; was not so advanced, Shri Yogendraji pioneered Shri Yogendraji emphatically emphasised that Yoga they have found that he could soon unthinkable research endeavours and proved that is a ‘Science of Living’ and that every human a place in US- yoga could cure even the most severe ailments of being should be taught this science. Everything based Oglethorpe perform miraculous feats the heart, lungs and joints. he did was with a single aim: to change man from University’s Crypt ignoble to noble. of Civilisation. like transferring his For the benefit of all who came to learn from him, Shri Yogendraji broke down the complex Hatha Founder, as he was known, always said, “Experience Prana to others in order Yoga techniques into simplified Asanas, which could is beyond knowledge and thinking and is often be performed by anyone and into nine simple quite the contrary.” At The Yoga Institute, he laid Pranayamas, which he based on a revolutionary great emphasis on experiencing an Asana rather to save their lives. count ratio of 1:2:4. This count system is today than ‘doing’ it. known as Yogendra Rhythm. He was a true Guru—a rare blessing to sadhakas. Smt Sita Devi was a registered medical practitioner. The Mission of a Yogi She drew on her expertise to customise health, with yoga, women hygiene and therapeutic techniques for women. In 1934, the first modern textbook for guiding recognise their women in their study of practical Yoga was published under her authorship. The cumulative uniqueness so they effect of her forward-thinking initiatives is evident from the fact that Yoga is today popular with can reintegrate numerous ladies who are engaged in educational, Shri Yogendraji health, medical, and cultural institutions both in said of his modern society India and abroad. wife, “Sita’s contribution to with spirituality. In 1939, in recognition of her outstanding service the working of to women in particular and society as a whole, The Yoga Institute Smt Sita Devi Yogendra the Women’s Health Federation of America is exceptional. Secretary, The Yoga Institute appointed Smt Sita Devi as the official delegateWithout her, we Barely eighteen years of age, soon after from India to the Health Welfare Congress at the could not have her marriage in 1927, Sita Devi joined New York World Fair. In 1940, her book received progressed.” The Yoga Institute. After four years of the honour of being preserved in the Crypt of intense study, she was entrusted with Civilisation. the responsibility of conducting Yogic practices for women. As Secretary of Despite remaining steadfast in her Yoga sadhana, the Institute, she pioneered initiatives Smt Sita Devi fulfilled all her duties—civic, that empowered women to rediscover social and domestic. She was the symbol of an their innate abilities and sharpen their ideal daughter-in-law, wife and mother. Verily, skills through mindful awareness, she proved that marriage only enhances one’s generated through Yogic techniques. spiritual progress on the path of Yoga studies. The Yoga Institute’s Teacher’s Training Courses, The Mission of a Yogi which are today hugely popular all over the world, are the brainchild of Dr Jayadeva. Like Shri Make constant Yogendraji, Dr Jayadeva wrote copious books. Everyone who has read his commentary on the effort to produce Patanjali Yoga Sutras and the four Cyclopedias authored by him regards the invaluable books as tendencies that the last word in Yoga.
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