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{{Infobox Hindu leader
| name = Niranjanananda Saraswati
| image = Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati.jpg
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| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|2|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Rajnandgaon]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| guru = [[Satyananda Saraswati]]
| founder = Bihar Yoga Bharati (BYB), Yoga Publications Trust, Bal Yoga Mitra Mandal, Sannyas Peeth
| footnotes =
}}
{{quote box|width=22em|title=Quotation|quote="Charity is helping others to overcome their needs" <br />(See [[q:Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati|more quotations]] in [[Wikiquote]])}}
[[Swami]] '''Niranjanananda Saraswati''' (born 14 February 1960) is the successor of [[Satyananda Saraswati]], founder of [[Satyananda Yoga]],<ref name="Saraswati2010">{{cite book|last=Saraswati|first=Ahimsadhara|title=Yoga Day by Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UoIoTe2JyrUC&pg=PT4|year=2010|publisher=Swan Yoga Publications|isbn=978-0-9808062-0-5|page=4}}</ref> who passed on the worldwide coordination of Satyananda Yoga to Niranjanananda in 1988.

He is Born [[Kayastha]] family in [[Rajnandgaon]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[India]], Niranjanananda is considered by his followers to be a yogi from birth. He was named 'Niranjan' (the Untainted One) by his guru Satyananda. He began his training at [[Bihar School of Yoga]] in India at the age of four through the use of [[yoga-nidra]] and practice of other yoga techniques. At the age of ten, he was initiated as a [[sannyasi]] and thereafter for eleven years he lived overseas. From 1971, he extensively toured Europe and North and South America.<ref>{{cite book|title=Yoga Chakra 2: Cultivating Spiritual Samskara|first=Swami Niranjanananda |last=Saraswati|publisher=Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India|year=2015|page = 51|isbn= 978-93-84753-28-3}}</ref> This experience gave him an understanding of the Western mind and society. In 1983 he returned to India and was appointed the Head of Bihar School of Yoga. For the next eleven years, he spearheaded the research and development activities at [[Ganga Darshan]], [[Shivananda Math]] and the [[Yoga Research Foundation]].

In 1990, he was initiated in the tradition of [[Paramahamsa]] and in 1993 he was chosen as the spiritual successor of Satyananda. In 1993, he organised a World Yoga Convention on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the sannyasa of his guru. In 1994, he established Bihar Yoga Bharati as the centre for higher studies in the field of yoga. He founded Yoga Publication Trust in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biharyoga.net/yoga-publications-trust/about-ypt/|title=Yoga Publications Trust - Bihar Yoga|website=www.biharyoga.net}}</ref>

In 2009, following the mandate of his Guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, he relinquished and renounced all administrative responsibilities and institutional posts.<ref>{{cite book|title=The history of Bihar School of Yoga|first=Swami Niranjanananda |last=Saraswati|publisher=Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India|year=2013|page = 39|isbn= 978-93-81620-41-0}}</ref> Swami Niranjanananda now lives as an independent sannyasin, following the lifestyle and sadhanas of a paramahansa sannyasin. From 2013, following in the tradition of his Guru, Swami Niranjanananda is performing the arduous panchagni tapasya or austerity, and other sadhanas and yajnas as elucidated in the Kathopanishad, Brihadaranyaka and Chhandogya Upanishads.<ref>{{cite book|title=Panchagni Tapas: Spiritual Succession of the Sadhus Fire|publisher=Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India|year=2018|page = 1|isbn= 978-93-84753-64-1}}</ref>

He was given the third-highest civilian award of the country, [[Padma Bhushan]], in 2017 for distinguished service of high order in the category/field of prominence of Others(Yoga).<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/List-of-Padma-awardees-2017/article17092476.ece</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180209002819/http://mha.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Awards_2017_14042017.PDF</ref><ref>https://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/society/full-list-of-the-padma-awardees-of-2017</ref>

==Publications==

[[Bihar School of Yoga]] has published several books by Swami Niranjananda. These include:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biharyoga.net/publications/books|title=Bihar Yoga Books - Bihar Yoga|website=biharyoga.net}}</ref>
* ''Jnana Yoga''
* ''My Inheritance of Sannyasa''
* ''The Yoga of Sage Vasishtha''
* ''The Yoga of Sri Krishna''
* ''Yoga in Daily Life''
* ''Dharma of a Disciple''
* ''Head, Heart & Hands''
* ''Karma & Karma Yoga''
* ''Mantra & Yantra''
* ''Mind, Mind Management & Raja Yoga''
* ''Origin of Yoga & Pashupata Yoga''
* ''The Paths of Pravritti & Nivritti''
* ''Sannyasa''
* ''On the Wings of the Swan'' (four volumes)
* ''Yoga Sadhana Panorama'' (five volumes)
* ''Prana Pranayama''
* ''Yoga Chudamani Upanishad''
* ''Gheranda Samhita''
* ''Dharana Darshan''
* ''Sannyasa Darshan''
* ''Yoga Darshan''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* http://www.yogapoint.com/info/swamiji2.htm
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPz09I401Q

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