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H H Swami Bua Ji Maharaj

Swami Bua Ji is the oldest living Hatha yogi in the world. Experts have estimated his age as about 120 years in 2007. Born in a poor, orthodox South Indian Brahmin family, and with crippled feet, his rise to become a loving yoga teacher and spiritual guide to millions of people all over the world is phenomenal. His experiences are so varied and full of spice and his life has been phenomenal. He had had many a providential escapes. When he was thirteen, he was declared dead. But he came out of the funeral pyre. He was abducted by cannibals when he was a child, but escaped with the help of a girl. He had escaped from pythons, from crocodiles and even from political activists. He did not have any formal education. But he has rubbed shoulders with almost all great men of letters, leaders, Heads of States of various countries in the capacity of a yoga master. He has gone round the world many times and is active even at this ripe age. You name any world leader, Swami Bua has met him. He had taught Shah of Iran, King of Ethiopia, King of Nepal, Boxing champion Mohammed Ali and many other world figures. He had met Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein and many world leaders from Russia, Germany and Italy. He has spoken to Indian leaders like Gandhi, Rajaji, the first Governor General of India after independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, many other prime ministers of India like Lal Bhahadhur Sastry and Indira Gandhi. He has been associated with many spiritual saints like Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi, Sathya Sai Baba, Aurobindo, Sri Sri Sivaya Subramunia Swami of Kawai adheenam in Hawaii and many others. His friends include great figures like Annie Besant, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Lala Lajpat Rai, Madhan Mohan Malaviya, and the list is endless. Swami Bua ji is the Master of Masters and the oldest living exponent of Hatha Yoga. He is the only living yogi in the world who has achieved the yogic feat of ‘Kechari Mudra’, the most difficult and rarest function of blocking one’s nasal path with one’s own tongue and stopping the breath for considerable length of time. His blowing a conch shell continuously for hours, is a proof for his capacity to control the breath, achieved with yogic practices. He can breathe through his eyes. His incredible act of rotating his body, anchoring both his arms on the ground is a rare feat inexplicable to even medical fraternity. Probably he is the only oldest living yogi who can walk on his knees with mountain pose. He is an exceptional orator and a writer in English, in spite of his minimal formal education. Swami Bua Ji is an embodiment of love and affection. His classes are filled with strict injunctions and warnings engulfed with concern for the welfare of the students. He always ends his classes with the relaxation lullaby:” Begin the day with love; spend the day with love; fill the day with love; end the day with love. That is the way to God.” Swami Bua Ji is a living proof of longevity and his way of living should be a lesson for a healthy and long life. He says that the food, laughter and yoga are the best medicine for a long and healthy life. He has been propagating vegetarianism and successfully converted many of his students and friends into healthy vegetarians by his strong reasoning. He says the human stomach should not be a burial ground for the dead animals. Swami Bua Ji has never visited a hospital in his life so far and never consumed any so called ‘medicines’. He has proved with his life that food is the best medicine. And laughter is the tonic. Giving out unconditional love without discrimination is the best way to maintain good health- both mental and physical. Swami Bua Ji has been living in the United States of America since 1972 and teaching the science of yoga to millions of westerners as well as people of Indian origin settled in America. He has also toured widely to South American countries and European countries conducting yoga workshops and demonstrations and spiritual lectures. He is the only yoga master who has been conferred with the title “Master of Hatha Yoga “(M.H.Y.) by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh.

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