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[[File:John Hills with Dhirendra Bramachari and Amrit Desai.jpg|thumb|John Hills discusses the World Conference on Scientific Yoga Conference program schedule with Dhirendra Brahmachari and [[Amrit Desai]].]] | [[File:John Hills with Dhirendra Bramachari and Amrit Desai.jpg|thumb|John Hills discusses the World Conference on Scientific Yoga Conference program schedule with Dhirendra Brahmachari and [[Amrit Desai]].]] | ||
'''Dhirendra Brahmachari''' (12 February 1924 – 9 June 1994), born '''Dhirendra Choudhary''' in village Basaith Chanpura, [[Madhubani, Bihar|Madhubani]], [[Bihar]], was | '''Dhirendra Brahmachari''' (12 February 1924 – 9 June 1994), born '''Dhirendra Choudhary''' in village [[Basaith Chanpura]], [[Madhubani, Bihar|Madhubani]], [[Bihar]], was a yoga teacher of [[Yogi Bhajan]] who taught [[Kundalini Yoga]] in the West and founded [[3HO]].<ref name="deslippe ">{{cite news |last1=Deslippe |first1=Philip |title=From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r63q6qn|accessdate=12 September 2018 |journal=Sikh Formations |volume=8 |number=3|date=2012}}</ref> Dhirendra Brahmachari was also yoga mentor of [[Indira Gandhi]] –The former [[prime minister]] of [[India]]<ref name="tandon">{{cite news |last1=Tandon |first1=P.D. |title=The truth about Indira |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-truth-about-indira/211665 | publisher=Outlook |date=21 May 2001 |accessdate=1 June 2018 }}</ref> He ran [[ashram]]s in [[Gurugram Airstrip#History|Bhondsi]] ([[Gurugram]] in Delhi NCR), [[Jammu]], [[Katra, Jammu and Kashmir|Katra]] and [[Mantalai]] (near [[Sudhmahadev]] in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir) and wrote books on [[yoga]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}} | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Inspired by reading the [[Bhagavad Gita]], he left home at the age of thirteen and went to [[Varanasi]]. His guru was [[Maharshi Kartikeya]] whose ashram was at Gopal-Khera, about twelve miles from [[Lucknow]]. Dhirendra Brahmachari studied yoga and associated subjects there.<ref>http://www.worldyogadirectory.com/Yoga-Teachers/Swami-Dhirendra-Brahmachari-1227.html | He was born in a [[brahmin]] family<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yogi Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari Ji {{!}} Yoga Guru of Indira Gandhi - a former Prime Minister of India|url=http://www.yogaguruswamidhirendrabrahmachari.absyogaindia.com/yogi_swami_dhirendra_brahmachari_ji.html|access-date=2022-01-16|website=www.yogaguruswamidhirendrabrahmachari.absyogaindia.com}}</ref> He later got Inspired by reading the [[Bhagavad Gita]], he left home at the age of thirteen and went to [[Varanasi]]. His guru was [[Maharshi Kartikeya]] whose ashram was at Gopal-Khera, about twelve miles from [[Lucknow]]. Dhirendra Brahmachari studied yoga and associated subjects there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldyogadirectory.com/Yoga-Teachers/Swami-Dhirendra-Brahmachari-1227.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.worldyogadirectory.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042256/http://www.worldyogadirectory.com/Yoga-Teachers/Swami-Dhirendra-Brahmachari-1227.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 1960s he was invited to travel to the U.S.S.R. as a [[hatha yoga]] expert to train Soviet cosmonauts. [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] later invited him to teach yoga to his daughter, [[Indira Gandhi]], to improve her health. He became influential politically in 1975–77 when Mrs Gandhi dissolved Parliament, declared a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|date=1994-06-10|title=Dhirendra Brahmachari, Yoga Master, 70|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/10/obituaries/dhirendra-brahmachari-yoga-master-70.html|access-date=2020-08-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | ||
In the late 1970s, Dhirendra Brahmachari promoted the benefits of yoga in a weekly program called "Yogabhyaas" which was broadcast on [[Doordarshan]], the state-owned television network.<ref>{{cite news |title=Speculation rife about Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari's estrangement from Gandhi family |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830815-speculation-rife-about-swami-dhirendra-brahmacharis-estrangement-from-gandhi-family-770911-2013-07-17 |accessdate=1 June 2018 |publisher=India Today}}</ref> He introduced yoga as a subject of study in Delhi administered schools, a considerable innovation. | In the late 1970s, Dhirendra Brahmachari promoted the benefits of yoga in a weekly program called "Yogabhyaas" which was broadcast on [[Doordarshan]], the state-owned television network.<ref>{{cite news |title=Speculation rife about Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari's estrangement from Gandhi family |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830815-speculation-rife-about-swami-dhirendra-brahmacharis-estrangement-from-gandhi-family-770911-2013-07-17 |accessdate=1 June 2018 |publisher=India Today}}</ref> He introduced yoga as a subject of study in Delhi administered schools, a considerable innovation. | ||