Eknath Easwaran
Indian-American spiritual teacher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eknath Easwaran (December 17, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads.
Eknath Easwaran | |
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Born | (1910-12-17)December 17, 1910 |
Died | October 26, 1999(1999-10-26) (aged 88) |
Nationality | India, United States |
Known for | Spiritual teacher, author, translator and interpreter of spiritual literature, teacher of Passage Meditation |
Easwaran was a professor of English literature at the University of Nagpur in India, and in 1959 he came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Minnesota before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley where he taught courses on meditation-the first in the country offering credits.[1][2][3][4] In 1961, Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California.[3] Nilgiri Press has published over thirty books that he authored.
Easwaran was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, whom he met when he was a young man.[5] Easwaran developed a method of meditation – silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's major religious and spiritual traditions[6] – which later came to be known as Passage Meditation.