Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao
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Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao, also known as Master C.V.V. (1868-08-04 in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, India – 1922-03-12) was a Hindu guru.
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[edit] Biography
Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao was born in a Niyogi family which had migrated from the Andhra area in the 14th or 15th century. He had his elementary education at Kumbakonam, and his secondary education at Srirangam. Around the age of 18, he came across theosophical literature.
He married Sow Rukmini when he was 12 years old; they had three sons and three daughters. She died when he was 36 and at 38 he married Venkamma and through her he had three sons and a daughter.
Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao was influenced by H.P. Blavatsky.[1] [2]
Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao started Bhrukta Rahita Taraka Raja Yoga on 1910-05-29.[3][4][5] He started classes in this new form of yoga in 1912, with Sri Satchidananda Saraswathi of Kanchi as his personal secretary. Among the followers of this new yogic path were Ekkirala Krishnamacharya, Potharaju Narasimham, Veturi Prabhakara Sastry and T. S. Sankara Iyer.
Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao died in 1922-05-12, his widow died in 1940.
[edit] Books about Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao
- Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (1993). The Aquarian Master, First Edition, Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 81-900332-1-2.
- Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (2006). Master C.V.V - May Call, First Edition, Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 978-3-9523145-0-0.
- Kambhampati, Parvathi Kumar (2007). Master C.V.V - May Call - II, First Edition, Visakhapatnam: Dhanishta. ISBN 978-3-9523145-7-9.
[edit] References
- ^ MASTER C.V.V. JIVITA KATHA — Biography of Master C.V.V.: Sri Sarvari (Vasili Ramakrishna Sarma)
- ^ The Hindu : Life story of a Yoga master
- ^ World Celebrations 2006
- ^ World Celebrations 2007
- ^ Bhruktha means hidden; Rahita means eradication or evaporation; Taraka means superior; Raja yoga means a form of yoga where one need not be a sannyasa.