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3 MAR 1932-17 MAY 1988 GURURAJ ANAND YOGI

Gururaj Ananda Yogi

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Gururaj Ananda Yogi (birth name: Purushottam Narsinhram Valodia, 3 March 1932 in Gujarat, India – 17 May 1988 in Cape Town, South Africa) was the founder of International Foundation of Spiritual Unfoldment and Foundation for International Spiritual Unfoldment(FISU), another meditation society, is also based on his teachings.[1] Gururaj Ananda Yogi started giving satsang in his living room at his home in South Africa and during 1974 with the help of some of his disciples in South Africa started The South African Meditation Society and The International Foundation for Spiritual Unfoldment. On October 1974 Marguerite Cusley (alias Gita) a teacher from Transcendental meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, organized for him a trip to the UK where Gururaj Ananda was introduced to many TM teachers from around the world and who soon joined his movement, The International Foundation for Spiritual Unfoldment (IFSU).
Within that organization several National Mediation Societies were created that are today continuing teaching meditation in different countries around the world. Among them: The British Meditation Society,[2] The American Meditation Society,[3] The Spanish Meditation Society,[4] The Danish Meditation Society,[5] The Irish Meditation Society, The Belgian Meditation Society, The Canadian Meditation Society and The Israeli Meditation Society. These societies and IFSU are the actual copyright holders of Gururaj's recorded teachings and are engaged in making a major publishing effort in association with publishers in both the USA and Spain.
Gururaj Ananda Yogi was a philosopher, a mystic and a poet who taught in the time-honored methods of the oral tradition. His disciples recorded most of his talks, both public and informal. Some of those transcribed talks have been compiled into books[6] Of particular relevance was the one published in Spain by Espasa Calpe that received very good critics in the general press.[7] Antonio Gala in his articles in El País every Sunday used to find inspiration in the quotes from Gururaj Ananda Yogi.
During 2005–2006 BISC in University of California at Berkeley started a project to put all his recorded teachings online using fuzzy logic to do natural language search over them that had to be stopped due to lack of funds.[8]
During his lifetime as a guru, Gururaj used to refer to the spiritual path as The Path of Unfoldment. After his death, two of his prime disciples, Rajesh Ananda,[9] and Jasmini Ananda[10] founded Foundation for International Spiritual Unfoldment, being the continuation of Gururaj's teachings,[1] follows the Meditation for Spiritual Unfoldment school of thought that promotes Gururaj's teachings for The Path of Unfoldment. This and the fact that Rajesh Ananda and Jasmini Ananda were prepared and initiated by Gururaj to be his successors, is debated by IFSU despite conclusive evidence and various recordings that confirm this. However, over the last 22 years since Gururaj physical passing, the organisation headed by Rajesh Ananda and Jasmini Ananda has become the largest and most successful organisation in the world with 80 branches in 13 different countries and they continue to grow at an accelerated pace having strong founded leadership and guruship by promoting Gururaj's teachings. FISU has become one of the world's largest and most active meditation schools and is continually expanding.

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Books[edit]

  • Anderson, V (editor) and Morosani R (editor). (1993). From Darkness to Light : A Selection of Talks by Gururaj Ananda Yogi. American Meditation Society. ISBN 1-883797-00-4
  • Taylor, S (editor). (1980). The Path of Unfoldment, An Introduction to the Teachings of Gururaj Ananda Yogi. London: VSM. ISBN 0-9506781-0-4
  • Anderson, V (editor) and Morosani R (editor). (2002). The Master Reflects. American Meditation Society. ISBN 1-883797-01-2
  • Gururaj Ananda Yogi. (1998). Glimmer of Love. Cape Town: Esquire. ISBN 0-620-12856-9

Media interviews[edit]

  • Sunday Telegraph, London, 10 April 1983
  • Yoga Today, United Kingdom, 1984
  • Television Series, Civilizations with Enrique Quesad, Madrid, Spain
  • Page 5 TV 5, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Today in Chicago, CBS TV, Chicago
  • Focal Point, KTIV TV, Sioux City, Iowa
  • Party Line, NBC TV, Sioux Falls, S.D
  • Midday Am, NBC TV, St Louis
  • At Your Service, KMOX, CBS Radio, St Louis
  • Mac & Friends, KWIT Radio, Sioux City, Iowa

Lectures[edit]

Symposia[edit]

  • World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1984. See United Communities of Spirit and Institute of Pastoral Studies
  • The Wrekin Trust Symposium, "Mystics and Scientists", special guest of Sir George Trevelyn, King Alfred's College, England, 1979
  • Holistic Health Symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1978
  • International Neuropsychiatry Symposia, South Africa, 1982
  • Annual Meeting of Association for Humanistic Psychology, Washington, D.C. 1982. See A Chronology of AHP's Annual Conferences
  • International Business Leaders Peace Conference, Boston, Mass 1982

Semi-annual conferences[edit]

  • Sociedad Española de Meditación
  • Dansk Meditation Samfond
  • British Meditation Society
  • American Meditation Society
  • Canadian Meditation Society
  • Irish Meditation Society
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