Gururaj Ananda Yogi

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Gururaj Ananda Yogi (birth name: Purushottam Narsinhram Valodia, 3rd March 1932, Gujarat, India - died 17th May 1988, Cape Town, South Africa) was the founder of FISU (Foundation for International Spiritual Unfoldment)[1]. During his lifetime as a guru he followed and taught the Meditation for Spiritual Unfoldment school of thought and contributed to it with lectures (of whom numerous recordings were made [2]), books and other publications [3] [4].

1 Quotes
2 Books
3 Media Interviews
4 Lectures
5 Symposia
6 Semi-Annual Conferences
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Quotes

It ’s so simple to be happy,but so difficult to be simple [5] [6]. Also used by Ben Hammersley on Content Syndication with RSS (O'Reilly Media, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00383-8) referring on RSS 0.91, 0.92, and 2.0 (Ch. 4) [7].

[edit] Books

Anderson, V (editor) and Morosani R (editor). (1993). From Darkness to Light : A Selection of Talks by Gururaj Ananda Yogi. American Meditation Society. ISBN 1-8837-9700-4

Taylor, S (editor). (1980). The Path of Unfoldment, An Introduction to the Teachings of Gururaj Ananda Yogi. London: VSM. ISBN 0-9506-7810-4

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

[edit] Media Interviews

Sunday Telegraph, London, 10th 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, IA
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, IA

[edit] Lectures

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Washington University, St. Louis
Loyola University, Chicago
Theosophical Society: Boston, London [8],
Copenhagen, Cape Town (South Africa)
Vedanta Society: South Africa, England [9]
Lorton Men's Prison, Virginia
Pastoral Counselling Centre of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada
Max Mueller Institute, New Delhi, India (note: The Goethe Institutes in India are named Max Mueller Bhavan in his honour).
Benares University, Benares, India
Lions Club, Barcelona, Spain [10]
Rotary Club, South Africa [11]

[edit] Symposia

World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1984 [12], [13]
The Wrekin Trust Symposium, "Mystics and Scientists", special guest of Sir George Trevelyn, King Alfred's College, England, 1979 [14]
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 [15]
International Business Leaders Peace Conference, Boston, Mass 1982