Vasudev, Jaggi
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Birthname | Jagadish Vasudev | ||||
born on | 3 September 1957 at 23:54 (= 11:54 PM ) | ||||
Place | Mysore, India, 12n18, 76e39 | ||||
Timezone | IST h5e30 (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Indian yogi, mystic, poet and New York Times bestselling author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a not for profit organization which offers yoga programs around the world, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Uganda, China, Nepal, and Australia. The foundation is also involved in various social and community development activities, which have resulted in it being granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. On 25 January 2017, the Government of India announced that he was being conferred the Padma Vibhushan award for his contribution towards spirituality.
Source Notes
Ashish Seth quotes from Sadhguru, More Than a Life by Arundhathi Subramaniam (Penguin, 2010), p. 30: "Jagadish had been born on 3 September 1957, at eleven fifty four, six minutes before midnight to Susheela and her husband, Vasudev. He was born in Mysore..."
Categories
- Vocation : Religion : Spiritual Leader/ Guru (Yogi)
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Awards : Public Service (Padma Vibhushan)