Meet the Masters (in alphabetical order)

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi: http://www.amma.org.uk/

Love, compassion, empathy and tolerance, under the pressures of modern life, these qualities have all but disappeared. Through Her loving embrace and charitable activities, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (affectionately known as Amma or Mother) is healing the heart of the world, rekindling love and mutual respect, and awakening people to their fundamental oneness. Through Her extraordinary acts of love and self-sacrifice, Amma has endeared Herself to millions. Tenderly caressing everyone who comes to Her, holding them close to Her heart in a loving embrace, Amma shares boundless love with all. Be they young or old, sick or healthy, rich or poor, everyone who comes to Her receives the same unconditional love.

Swami Atmachaithanya: http://www.atmachaithanya.org/

Swami Atmachaithanya was born on 10th April 1964 in the small village of Uppaychal, a poor rural community in southwest India. Throughout his early childhood Swami showed remarkable kindness towards others and a great reverence for the Divine. He kept the image of Lord Shiva constantly in his mind and attained Self-realisation at the age of seven. As he got older many people came to seek his advice and to benefit from his miraculous healing powers. Then, as now, Swami asks for no payment for the help that he gives.

Chandra Swami: http://www.inner-quest.org/Chandra_Swami.htm

As a child, Chandra Swami used to have mystical experiences and visions of various saints unknown to him. In 1947, he was initiated into the Udasin order by Mahant Girdhari Dassji. In 1952, while studying for a Master's Degree, the urge for God-realisation was so strong that he abandoned his studies and all worldly ties and left for Haridwar. He grew his hair long and started wearing white clothes. He meditated two hours in the early morning and two hours in the evening and read Vedantic scriptures, like books by Swami Ram Tirth and Swami Vivekananda. He has maintained silence for the last 45 years.

Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda: http://www.dattapeetham.com/

Sri Swamiji is renowned for His Healing and Meditation music and He is considered a divine guide who cultivates the ancient Vedic traditions. He was born fully realised in command of the eight Mahasiddhis and is a Guru in the Dattatreya Avadhoota lineage. Sri Swamiji honours all religions and teaches that it's possible to reach God by many paths. "It is of primary importance to attune with God through prayer, worship and the chanting of God's holy names". "Then God Himself will give you good guidance" says Sri Swamiji.

Sri Karunamayi: http://www.karunamayi.org/

Sri Karunamayi is revered in India as an embodiment of divine motherly love, due to the love and affection that she showers liberally on people, animals, and even plants, the spiritual knowledge and guidance that she gives freely to all of humanity, and the humanitarian works that she has undertaken. "Amma," as she is affectionately called by her devotees, is simply the Telugu word for "mother," Telugu being Amma's native language.

Mother Lasana: http://www.matkalasana.cz/

Born in the Czech Republic in 1987, Mother Lasana has always known who she is and what her mission is. Early on, she was recognised as a remarkable being, and since the age of 8 has given thousands of people darshan, which is her way of working with the Divine Light. Her darshans bring people to the awareness of the Divine Love within themselves; they strengthen faith and gradually harmonise all aspects of people's lives. Her Light assists the process of inner healing and growth.

Shree Maa: http://www.shreemaa.org/

From her earliest years Shree Maa's only desire was to meditate, merging her own being in the universal being the Hindus call Brahman [i.e. God].
 
Inspired by the 19th century Bengali mystic, Sri Paramahamsa Ramakrishna, she left her family's home, and taking to the forests and foothills of Kamakhya, she performed sadhana in the regions of the State of Assam and in the Himalayan foothills in India. She sat most of the time on one asana in the silence of deep meditation, speaking very little, and eating practically nothing, only sandal paste mixed with water, tulsi [basil] leaves and occasional juice fed to her by disciples and devotees. People who saw her in samadhi [deep communion with God] for hours and days at a time, called her the Goddess of the Mountain, The Goddess of the River, or simply Shree Maa, the Respected Holy Mother.

Maitreyi Amma: http://www.maitreyiamma.org/

Maitreyi Amma was born in Normandy (France) in December 1952. After being born blind, she recovered her sight miraculously at the age of six and half. She experienced the life of a woman in the West, while constantly remaining in connection to the Divine, then went to live in India. When she met Sri Tathata in 2002, she understood at once he was the immense soul she had always been looking for. Since 2003, she has been travelling throughout the world as both his messenger for the West and a great incarnation of the Divine Mother in her own right, giving darshans, satsang and teachings.

Mother Meera: http://www.mrreddy.org/

Born in India in 1960, Mother Meera is one of the most widely revered and loved of the Avatars of the Divine Mother. In this time of change and growing spiritual hunger, the Mother offers her children a direct transmission of Light that dissolves all barriers and transforms the entire being.
 
She asks no special allegiance and offers her transformative power to all. Darshan consists of the silent bestowal of grace and light through her gaze and touch.

His Holiness Sharavana Babaji (Murali Krishna): http://www.sharavanababa.org

Sadguru Sharavana Babaji was born in a small village in Kerala, South India in 1979. He experienced hardship and poverty in his childhood and began work very young to help his family. However, people soon recognised his divinity, sought his counsel and blessing and started inviting him to perform devotional ceremonies and prayers. Now he has a large and growing following in India, where he is considered an Avatar of Lord Murugan, son of Lord Shiva. Swami combines the ways of bhakti, jnana and karma yoga (devotion, knowledge and service). He is fervently engaged in many charitable activities, which are an essential part of his mission. He exhorts his devotees to develop iccha shakti, jnana shakti and kriya shakti, i.e. willpower and self-confidence, the power of wisdom, and the power of positive action. He has come to help avert the dangers that threaten Earth in these troubled times. People who receive Swami's darshan blessing are uplifted by his joy, simplicity and unconditional love.

Sri Shivarudra Balayogi: http://www.shivarudrabalayogi.com/

Sri Shivarudra Balayogi, also affectionately known as Babaji, is a Self-realized Yogi – one who has completed the path of Yoga and attained union with the Divine Consciousness. Offering initiation into the technique of Dhyana meditation freely to any who desires it without obligation, He engages His audiences world-wide with His profound spiritual insight drawn from deep personal experience rather than scriptural study. This is coupled with a charming personality, a delightful sense of humour and a unique ability to present the deepest spiritual Truth in a simple but complete manner.

Swami Shree Shivkrupanandji: http://www.samarpanmeditation.org/

Swami Shree Shivkrupanandji, a living saint of the 21st century is a teacher of a unique Dhyan Yoga Meditation technique. Guided by unknown forces he went to Nepal, and met "Shivbaba'', an ageing ascetic who accepted Swamiji as his disciple. "Shivbaba'' passed on his total spiritual knowledge to Swamiji, and left for his heavenly abode. Swamiji enhanced his knowledge by meditating with various Gurus, Siddhas, Rishis, Munis, Kaiwalya Kumbhak Yogis, Buddhist Monks and Saints in Himalayas. This enhance his own spiritual evolution and knowledge. Finally the realization dawned upon him that GOD is within oneself and is reached by simple prayer with faith.

Swami Sunil Das: http://www.snehamtrust.in/

While still a schoolboy in his native Kerala, young Sunil Das was deeply moved to observe that some of his schoolmates were so poor they could not afford to eat at midday but would look on hungrily as the wealthier children ate their tiffin lunches. Sharing what he had, Sunil Das prayed in his heart: “Lord, for myself I ask for nothing, but I pray only that I may help the poor and the needy and that one day all may have sufficient”. Today his prayer is being fulfilled through the many charities Swami has founded that provide food, clothing, shelter, education and medical treatment to those in need, including care for leprosy and AIDS victims. The other wing of Swami’s work is to guide seekers on the path of meditation and devotion, and to open their hearts to love.

Sri Tathata: http://www.sritathata.org/

Sri Tathata is an enlightened sage born in Kerala, India, and now dividing his time between his ashrams in Varishtapuri, Kerala, and Kollur, Karnataka, when he is not on his frequent travels in India and abroad. He spent much of his early years meditating alone, absorbed in the Divine, before following the strict discipline of a yogi. Then came the time for his mission: to reveal the Divine Nature of human beings and help us fulfill our highest potential. He brings a new dimension to both Indian and Western spirituality, seeing no separation between material and spiritual life. His teachings of the Middle Way, summarized in his Dharma Sutras, together with unique spiritual exercises imparted through initiations, help us to harmonise all aspects of our life and accelerate our spiritual progress towards the realisation of the Self and our establishment in It. He warns that we are on the verge of serious upheavals unless we change our ways, individually and collectively.