Sri Vitthal Ramanuja
Kinkar Vitthal Ramanuja, is a spiritual personality of great relevance in today’s times. A scholar and great renunciate, well established in celibacy and vow of truth, he brings to the world the life and teachings of Naam Avatara, Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath. He is the present Sarvaadhish of the Order founded by the Master.
He was barely eleven when Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath accepted him as a dear disciple and initiated him by bestowing diksha. He graduated from Burdhaman University of West Bengal securing the first-class-first in English literature! A day after his M.A., on 9th of January 1973, he renounced home! He became the member of Akhil Bharat Jai Guru Sampradaya Trust in the same year.
He has performed severe austerities, often taking recourse to mauna and isolation in hermitages established by Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath at Uttar Kashi, Dumurdaha, Rishikesh and Omkareshwar .
He faithfully chronicled in fine detail all the significant events of His Preceptor’s life (Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath) in Bengali in two volumes of ‘Navo Navo Rupe Eso’. He has also penned the series ‘Sitaram Mahasindhu Tire’, the most exhaustive and authentic biographical tribute that has ever been made to a Guru.
He is the founder of SKY – Sahaj Kriya Yoga, a technique which is an amalgamation of the yogic practices of pranayama, pranaam and mantra yoga. This method of yoga has gained great popularity among his disciples, the spiritual practitioners as well as the modern masses whose motto in life is fitness first.
Vitthal Maharaj’s most endearing gift to this panic-stricken humanity is a book written titled Be Tension Free.
He is involved in a vast array of activities: looking after the hermitages, preaching of Naam (God’s Name), promoting the tenets of Sanatana Dharma, nationwide discourses, singing bhajans and samkirtans, authoring spiritual works and disseminating the supremely sacred life and teachings of Sri Omkarnath.
His teachings may be found in the book Sri Vitthal Uvacha (Sri Vitthal Speaks) in two volumes.
