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Browse the teachingsThe teacher · Bihar, 1931
Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda
Born February 3, 1931. Initiated into Sanyasa by Swami Sivananda at Rishikesh in 1953. Teaching today, at ninety-five. What follows is not a legend but a record — dates and places, kept the same way every lecture in the archive is kept.
The life, entry by entry.
Five entries carry the whole of it. Each has its date and its place, and each can be checked — the archive itself is the evidence.
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1931 · Bihar, India
Born February 3, 1931
The record begins in Bihar, in northeastern India. As a young man he set out for the Himalayas to find a teacher — and found the one whose name still anchors this lineage.
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1953 · Rishikesh
Initiated into Sanyasa by Swami Sivananda
In 1953, Sri Swami Sivananda — founder of the Divine Life Society at Rishikesh — initiated him into the ancient order of Sanyasa. He lived and worked at his teacher's side on the banks of the Ganges, and his command of Yoga and Vedanta drew enormous interest across India.
This is the entry that matters most to a careful reader: the man whose voice fills this archive did not learn the tradition from books about it. He received it in person, from a master, in the place where it was kept.
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1962 · Puerto Rico
The first ashram: Sanatan Dharma Mandir
In 1962 he relocated to Puerto Rico and founded his first ashram, Sanatan Dharma Mandir — regular classes, weekly radio lectures in English and Spanish, and numerous television appearances. Seven years of teaching, before Miami.
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1969 · Miami, Florida
The Yoga Research Foundation
In 1969 he established the Yoga Research Foundation — his ashram in Miami, now the center for international activities, publications, and teachings, with branches worldwide. The lectures were recorded as they were given, and the archive on this site is the by-product of that constancy.
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Today · at ninety-five
Still teaching
Today, at ninety-five, he continues to impart scriptural wisdom and guide aspirants toward the supreme purpose of life — Enlightenment. The register is still open, and the archive is free.
One teaching, carried across three shores.
The same subjects he studied on the banks of the Ganges — Vedanta, Yoga philosophy, the great scriptures of India — taught in Rishikesh, then Puerto Rico, then Miami, nearly every day for over sixty years. The archive is his life's work.
- Rishikesh Initiated into the order of Sanyasa by Swami Sivananda, founder of the Divine Life Society, on the banks of the Ganges.
- Puerto Rico Sanatan Dharma Mandir, his first ashram — classes, weekly radio in English and Spanish, seven years of teaching.
- Miami The Yoga Research Foundation opens its doors. He teaches there still — at ninety-five.
Where he teaches
The lecture hall on the recordings is a real room. The door is open.
Much of the recorded collection was given in this hall, to whoever came that day. The room was never a studio. The recordings exist because the classes did.
Swamiji continues to teach here, and the community gathers on Saturdays to sit in meditation. Visitors are welcome, and nothing is charged at the door.
Yoga Research Foundation
6111 SW 74th Avenue
South Miami, Florida 33143
The ashram sits in a residential neighborhood of South Miami, a short drive from US-1. Street parking is available nearby; please park considerately.
Before a first visit
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- 305-666-2006
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- Schedules shift with the season, and someone will gladly tell you what meets that week.
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