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Portrait of Swami Chinmayananda
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Yoga Guru · Ācārya

Swami Chinmayananda

Founder of Chinmaya Mission; studied under Sivananda and Tapovan Maharaj.

Period: 1916–1993
Associated with: India
Tradition: Vedānta
📿 Historically documentedDates and lineage below reflect scholarly consensus; confidence levels are shown for each link.Confidence: High

Lineage timeline (Paramparā)

The teacher-to-student transmission — oldest first, flowing down through the generations.

  1. Swami Sivananda Saraswati1887–1963

    initiated by · confidence High

  2. Swami ChinmayanandaThis page1916–1993

  3. Students who carried it forward

  4. Swami Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)1930–2015

    guru disciple · confidence Medium

A guru–disciple link is shown only where historically supported. Traditional attributions are labelled and never presented as verified fact.

Traditions & lineages

Chinmaya Mission (Vedānta)

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