Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji Writer
Sri Raghavendra Swamiji of Malladihalli (1890–1996), popularly known as "Malladihalli Swamiji", was the founder of Anatha Sevashrama Trust, Malladihalli. He taught yoga to more than 4.5 million people all over the world keeping his base as Malladihalli in Chitradurga district, a tiny village in Karnataka, India, approximately 250 kilometers from Bangalore, India. Malladihalli Raghavendra Swamiji was born in Kerala. This yoga and ayurveda teacher treated more than 3 million people for various diseases with ayurvedic medicines, and yoga without any surgery. He built an ayurvedic hospital at Malladihalli and Vishwa Yoga Mandir (World Yoga Trust) and various educational institutions, on a non-profit basis. His main concern was to educate the poor people and teach yoga to people from sections of the society for maintaining good health. He always said that "You should not exhibit yoga", in other words, yoga is not for exhibition or competition purposes. Based on his 70 years of experience in teaching and practicing yoga and Ayurveda, the number of Yoga postures is equal to the number of animal and bird species in the world. The State Government of Karnataka and the Central Government of India gave him several awards but he declined to accept them because his aim was not official recognition but the collection of funds for his various projects to help the poor and needy. He called himself "thiruka" (beggar) and urged people to donate freely to his projects. He was the author of books on yoga and ayurveda, as well as on Kannada literature, drama, music,etc. , published under the pen name of Thiruka. Some of his writings have been included in school text books in Karnataka.
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| Birth date | January 01, 1890 |
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| Date of death | January 01, 1996 |
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