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About the Author<br />
Yogi Madhvāchārya (Michael Beloved) took his current body in 1951 in Guyana.<br />
In 1965, while living in Trinidad, he instinctively began doing yoga postures and<br />
trying to make sense of the supernatural side of life.<br />
Later on, in 1970, in the Philippines, he approached a Martial Arts<br />
Master named Mr. Arthur Beverford, explaining to the teacher that he was<br />
seeking a yoga instructor; Mr. Beverford identified himself as an advanced<br />
disciple of Sri Rishi Singh Gherwal, an astanga yoga master.<br />
Mr. Beverford taught the traditional Astanga <strong>Yoga</strong> with stress on<br />
postures, attentive breathing and brow chakra centering meditation. In<br />
1972, Madhvāchārya entered the Denver Colorado Ashram of Kundalini<br />
<strong>Yoga</strong> Master Sri Harbhajan Singh. There he took instruction in Bhastrika<br />
Pranayama and its application to yoga postures. He was supervised mostly<br />
by Yogi Bhajan’s disciple named Prem Kaur.<br />
In 1979 Madhvāchārya formally entered the disciplic succession of the<br />
Brahma-Madhava Gaudiya Sampradaya through Swami Kirtanananda, who<br />
was a prominent sannyasi disciple of the Great Vaishnava Authority Sri<br />
Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, the exponent of devotion to Sri Krishna.<br />
However, <strong>Yoga</strong> has a mystic side to it, thus Madhvāchārya took<br />
training and teaching empowerment from several spiritual masters of<br />
different aspects of spiritual development. This is consistent with Sri<br />
Krishna’s advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gītā:<br />
tad<br />
viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā<br />
upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva darśinaḥ<br />
This you ought to know. By submitting yourself as a student, by<br />
asking questions, by serving as requested, the perceptive, realityconversant<br />
teachers will teach you the knowledge. (Gītā 4.34)<br />
Most of the instructions Madhvāchārya received was given in the astral<br />
world. On that side of existence, his most prominent teachers were Sri<br />
Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh, Yogiraj Swami Vishnudevananda, Sri<br />
Babaji Mahashaya - the master of the masters of Kriya <strong>Yoga</strong>, Srila<br />
Yogeshwarananda of Gangotri - the master of the masters of Raj <strong>Yoga</strong><br />
(spiritual clarity), and Siddha Swami Nityananda - the Brahma <strong>Yoga</strong><br />
authority.<br />
If you have some interest in yoga, nurture and develop it. Sri Krishna,<br />
the Supreme Being offers all encouragement to those who are attracted to<br />
yoga. This is what the God said:<br />
tatra taṁ buddhi saṁyogaṁ labhate paurva dehikam<br />
yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṁsiddhau kuru nandana<br />
In that environment (in the new birth), he (the yogi) is inspired with<br />
the cumulative intellectual interest from a previous birth. And from<br />
that time, he strives again for yoga perfection, O dear son of the<br />
Kurus.<br />
(Gītā 6.43)<br />
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