{"id":17431,"date":"2024-11-30T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabiz.net\/blog\/?p=17431"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:47:39","slug":"one-of-my-teachers-swami-shankarananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabiz.net\/blog\/one-of-my-teachers-swami-shankarananda\/","title":{"rendered":"One of My Teachers Swami Shankarananda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swami Shankarananda<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Baltimore’s Awake Yoga Meditation Community was founded by Swami Shankarananda of the Giri Swami Order. In 1974, his teacher, Swami Premananda, blessed the inauguration of what was then called Divine Life Church of Absolute Monism where I met Swami Shankarananda, known as Acharya Peter, at the time, in 1971.<\/p>\n

While the Divine Life Church was being renovated in 1974, the Divine Life Church services were held in my home in Baltimore. I studied with him for over almost 2 decades\u00a0 and I loved him. I left Baltimore in 1993 to come to California.<\/p>\n

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Adi Shankaracharya<\/mark>\u00a0is credited with reordering the ancient Swami Order of India centuries ago.\u00a0The Swami Order is an ancient monastic order that continues to the present day through an unbroken line of teachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Swami Order has 10 subdivisions, or dasanamis, including the Giri, Sagar, Bharati, Aranya, Tirtha, and Saraswati branches.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In 1995, Swami Shankarananda created the Universal Swami Order, which continues the Ancient Swami Order but now includes women as well as men, married as well as unmarried devotees.<\/p>\n

Swami Shankarananda left the body on November 24, 2014.<\/p>\n