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DR. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA SARASWATI
(BRIAN THOMSON)
Dr. Swami Vivekananda (Brian Thomson) is an eminent personality from Australia. He is a brilliant psychiatrist, yoga teacher and intellectual. He has been in the role of a doctor for the past thirty years and in the role of a sannyasin for the past seventeen years.
When Paramahamsaji first went to Australia, Dr. Swami Vivekananda was his most vocal critic because his wife was a yoga teacher. She used to teach yoga to the patients whom he had tried to treat over a period of many years with valium and tranquilizers. These patients used to get more benefits by joining the classes of his wife within one week, ten days or fifteen days. So, he used to feel threatened.
However, the grace of guru and the attraction of yoga was such that he became a messenger for the integration of science and yoga in his own right. Looking at his inherent ability to integrate the principles of yoga with the principles of science, at the time of his initiation into sannyasa, Paramahamsaji named him Swami Vivekananda Saraswati and told him just one thing, "Just as in the past Swami Vivekananda carried the message of yoga and spirituality to the far corners of the world, in the same way, in this present age, you have to carry the message of yoga and science to every nook and corner of this world."
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