# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/satchidananda-saraswati
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:45.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/satchidananda-saraswati"
name: "Satchidananda Saraswati"
slug: "satchidananda-saraswati"
description: "Satchidananda Saraswati, born C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder and known as Swami Satchidananda, was an Indian yoga guru and religious teacher, who gained following in the West. He founded his own brand of Integral Yoga, and its Yogaville headquarters in Virginia. He was the author of philosophical and spiritual books and had a core of founding disciples who compiled his translations and updated commentaries on traditional handbooks of yoga such as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita for modern readers."
tagline: "Yogiraj (1914-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Swami_Satchidananda_(1970).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-12-22"
deathDate: "2002-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.32
  momentum:             0.8351893095768375
  historical:           9.339608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  166
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.yogaville.org/"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ساتشيداناندا ساراسواتى"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Satchidananda_Saraswati"
    title: "Swami Satchidananda Saraswati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Satchidananda"
    title: "Swami Satchidananda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Satchidananda"
    title: "Swami Satchidananda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Swami Satchidananda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Swami Satchidananda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Свами Сатчидананда"
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    title: "سوامی سچدانند سرسوتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump