Swami Shankarananda
Shankarananda: the Life & Times of an American Swami
Swami Shankarananda, a native New Yorker, brilliant student,
master chess player, and young university professor, put his
life and career on hold to go to India in search of sages,
swamis, and the lure of enlightenment. The year was 1970, and
some of his fellow travelers were among the first westerners to
partake of—and return with—the spiritual riches of
the East. In this in-depth interview with WIE founder
Andrew Cohen, Swami Shankarananda recounts his early spiritual
experiences, first journey to India, and the transformative
encounters he had with some of the most powerful spiritual
teachers of the time. Today, Swami Shankarananda is one of the
most renowned meditation teachers in Australia, and the
proponent of a unique form of spiritual inquiry, called the
Shiva Process, his original contribution to the practical application of enlightenment in the world.
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