Swami Sivananda Saraswati ( IAST : Svāmī Śivānanda Sarasvatī; 8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963 [1] ), also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru , [2] a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta . Sivananda was born in Pattamadai , in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu , and wa...