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Swami Parvathiananda:
Born in the Netherlands in 1942.
When I was 25 I came across a copy of Yogananda Paramahamsa’s book: Autobiography of a Yogi. A couple of years later I read: Seven Years In Tibet and my first book on Yoga by Indira Devi. A nursing friend and myself decided to learn Hatha Yoga at the Perth Yoga school and our first Yoga teachers were Swami Lakshmi and Vera McCardell. I was then 28 years old.
Not long after I started Yoga, Swami Lakshmi asked a few of us to come with her and meet a SWAMI at the airport. That is now 50 years ago and I was 29.
Seeing Swami Venkatesananda for the first time literally turned me inside out and upside down. Swamiji radiated such Love and compassion that I found tears of joy streaming down my face. He then simply hugged me. His Presence burst open my Spiritual Heart space and filled me with immense peace and Love.