Shri Shailendra Sharma, based in Govardhan, India, is a Kriya Yoga guru in the direct parampara coming from Babaji and Lahiri Mahasaya, his son and his grandson, Shri Satyacharan Lahiri. This authorized (i.e. certified by the guru) biography of a yogi and a man of unusual destiny has been compiled in Russian and English by Katya Mossin, a student of Shri Shailendra Sharma since 2008. How do people become yogis and gurus in India? The story begins in childhood...
Bhagavad Gita (Bhagavad-gita, or simply “Gita”; Skt. भगवद् गीता, Bhagavad Gītā IAST “Song of the Lord”) is a monument of ancient Indian religious and philosophical thought in Sanskrit, part of the sixth book of the Mahabharata (Bhismapapva, chapters 23-40) consists of 18 chapters and 700 verses. One of the basic texts of Hindu philosophy.
Dr. Madhavan Munusamy belongs to the South-Indian branch of Swami Sivananda tradition of yoga. Yogacharya Madavan is Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery from Venkatramana Ayurvedic Medical College (Chennai); he also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Yoga Therapy from Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana in Bangalore and attended the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta ashram TTC and Advanced TTC courses.