Influential Teachers of SAI

Yogiraj Vethathiri Maharishi (Swamiji)

The great Kundalini Master, was born in South India in 1911 and passed in 2006. He was a doctor of Ayurvedic and Siddic Medicine and poet in a lineage of Rishis that dates back over 6,000 years, from the oldest living lineage I could find on Earth: “The Siddhas.” Swamiji was founder of the World Community Service Center in Madras, India, with two ashrams, dozens of meditation centers around the world and thousands of students. Swamiji took the ancient science of awakening the innate intelligence, or Kundalini, that enlightens your mind

Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj (Swamiji)

“The Rain Making Yogi”, was born in 1935 (to 2001) in a small village in South India. At the age of 14 Sathyaraju (name at birth) had a spontaneous call from Lord Shiva to sit in meditation and do tapas. For the next 8 years of his life this boy (bala) sat for 23 hours a day in Samadhi, and for 12 hours a day for the next four years completing full Yoga Tapas as the epics note Patanjali and the Shankaracharya had. Swamiji was legendary, other great maters

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to your own nature and brought this “Simplified Kundalini Yoga” to householders and people of the West. Swamiji lectured on the Unified Force Theory at universities around the world and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a peace advocate. Swamiji trained Steven S. Sadleir, Jim Smith and David Smith to be Kundalini Masters, to give the Initiations and who encouraged us to found the Self Awareness Institute in 1985. Swamiji asked Steven to carry on this lineage and foretold that the Westerners that would come for training would be the first to enlighten and bring about the Age of Enlightenment.

such as Sidhoji, Lahiri (Kriya) and Sai Baba would send their students to sit with him to get his Shakti. Swamiji had the most Shakti of any enlightened master on the planet. Being within a block of him would cause your body to vibrate and get you high by going into spontaneous samadhi. He had healing powers and could communicate telepathically. He has two ashrams in India and a following of hundreds of thousands. Swamiji trained Steven and Jim in Dhyana, meditation, and guided their tapas in 1990. Swamiji took Steven under his wing and told him that he was training him to give Shaktipat to the world and that SAI would gather those who are ready to enlighten in the West to bring about the Age of Enlightenment. Swamiji passed days after Steven and Jim completed their training.