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SWAMIJI
Swami
Nardanand was born in 1958 in a small farming village of
Uttar Pradesh state in North India. As a specially gifted
boy of 10, and with the blessings of his family, this eldest
son moved to the banks of the Ganges at the holy city of
Haridwar to attend gurukul, which is the ancient way of
training in Sanskrit and spiritual matters.
The course of study was 12 years, 24 hours per day. The name
of the school is Gurukul Kangri, which is one of the finest
such schools in India. When Swami Nardanand was graduated,
he not only was the leading student of his class, but also
was given a special award for his accomplishments and
expertise, presented in person by the President of India.
At the age of 14, Swami
Nardanand was initiated as a monk by his teacher,
Paramahansa Lakshmananda, who now resides in the city of
Vrindivan.
Later, Swami Nardanand met and
was initiated into the more esoteric spiritual teachings by
his teacher,
Swami Shivom Tirtha,
a widely recognized adept who left his physical body in
2008
(In his later years Swami Shivom
Tirtha gave up his public life, left the ashram and started
living in a isolated place near Indore, with two celibate
disciples, writing many books. He left his body on 06/04/
2008 at coimbatore: his ashes were offered to the Ganges at
Rishikesh)
In 1990, Swami Nardanand
founded Siddha Ashram along the banks of the Shipra River in
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, one of the four major Kumbha
Mela sites.
During the 2004 Kumbha Mela at
Ujjain, Swami Nardanand was appointed as Mahamandaleshwara
of Akhand Akhara.
Swami Nardanand teaches Yoga,
Vedanta, and Tantra in India, Europe, North America, and
South America.
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