Yogi Matsyendranath

Yogi Matsyendranath Maharaj is a Guru of Russian origin recognised in India (his mundane name is Maxim Matsiendranatkh). He was born in Bryansk, the city of the Russian Federation, graduated from Youngdong University (Youngdong, South Korea), where he did Bachelor of Physical Education in "Master of Kouksundo (ancient Korean health system)." He also studied religious rituals, yoga and tantra in India and Nepal.

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In Russia, he is known as the first of the Russians who has been ever initiated in the Nath tradition. The principal spiritual Master (mula-guru) of Yogi Matsyendranath Maharaj in the Nath lineage is Yogi Shri Mithleshnath Maharaj, the head of the Devipatan Mandir (Tulsipur, Uttar Pradesh). Yogi Matsyendranath was completely trained in Nath Sampradaya in India, he has been ordained to be a Guru and attorned the authority to initiate adepts into the Tradition. He has translated and published several fundamental texts belonging to the Nath Tradition from Indian languages into Russian. In addition, under his guidance the magazine "Adesh", dedicated to the Nath Tradition, has been issuing since 2008 to the present. Moreover, Yogi Matsyendranath also learned from other Gurus in India, who are well known nowadays in Russia thanks to his support and activity. Among them we can mention Vagish Shastri, Rakesh Pandey, Ramacandra Seth and others. Yogi Matsyendranath has his disciples and followers all over the world in such countries as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as in Europe (Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, France, etc.), America, Australia, Israel, South Korea. He promotes the Nath Tradition, which traces back to the ancient yoga teacher Gorakshanath — the founder and distributor of Hatha Yoga. Despite the fact that modern Hatha Yoga is largely oversimplified and has assumed rather a form of fitness nowadays, having lost its spiritual content, the influence of the Nath Tradition upon this mass social phenomenon is still significant.

Yogi Matsyendranath is the first who has managed to organize a visit of one of the titular Nath Guru — Yogi Vilasnath Maharaj to Russia and Europe. For the first time such honoured and authoritative Guru with the great recognised contribution into the Nath Sampradaya has visited the Russian Federation.

Being the first who has introduced the Nath Tradition to Russian people and opened the way into the Tradition for spiritual seekers, Yogi Matsyendranath has also promoted other currents allied to Nathism, such as Tantrism, Shaktism, etc. He has been given an access to certain Tantric lineages, where those who are not from India or Nepal by origin are rarely initiated. He has received higher initiations in the Tantric Shrividya cult from Guru Shri Chidganandanatha (Kishingarh, Rajasthan), and the authority of the initiating Guru.

Yogi Matsyendranath gives constantly seminars, lectures, conferences and pravacanas in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, France, Israel, India,etc.

He is one of the promoters of the Nath Tradition since 2004 up to the present and still continues making a significant contribution into development of the Tradition.

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