# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sivananda-saraswati
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:44.351Z

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name: "Sivananda Saraswati"
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description: "Swami Sivananda Saraswati, also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism."
tagline: "Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1887-09-08"
deathDate: "1963-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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