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Portrait of Swami Vishnudevananda
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Yoga Guru · Ācārya

Swami Vishnudevananda

Disciple of Sivananda; founded the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.

Period: 1927–1993
Associated with: India → Canada
Tradition: Sivananda Yoga
📿 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

    guru disciple · confidence High

  2. Swami VishnudevanandaThis page1927–1993

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