There are quite many yoga, spiritual organization and movements in our Indian Nation, we one among them known as Swartham Sath Sang (Regd.2012, known as Maharishi Sri Pathanjali Yoga Kendram, for 3 decades prior to registration) from Meenakshi Desh, Madurai, India.

The founder of Swartham Sath Sang T.S. Krishnan achariya is a disciple of Yoga Guru Pathanjali Maharishi and have preached Guruji’s leasons of Yoga through slogas obtained from ancient books wrote by Maharishi and were preachedto his disciples for the past 30 years in Madurai district of Tamilnadu State.

At his younger age of 7 years, Master TS Krishnan’s (77years old as on 2018) Gurukal was his father’s grooming as a divine personality by teaching and making him realize the secrets of ASHTANGA YOGA, who was an eye opener for his spiritual world. His father Mr.Subramaniam was a Siddha Doctor from Thuvarankurichi, a small village at Trichy district. When his son completed his Gurukul period, father made his son’s mind very clear not to sell the art of yoga but to make people realize the yogic incarnation (God within-eternal happiness) in every personality, he started governing a temple in his locality named Kasi Vishwanathar Temple at Palanganatham in Madurai were ancient deity of Sri Pathanjali exists. He performed Kumbabhiskesham periodically till date. Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Yearly rituals to every deity including Pathanjali were done regularly without fail from the year 1988 to till date. Monthly full moon pooja to guru was a center point of attraction for those locality citizens. After Tamilnadu government possession under Hindu Charitable department, it appointed him as an administrator for the temple till now. With his responsibility to temple, family (5 childrens) and love towards guru pathanjali, he started teaching Aasanas & Pranayama to the locality people & children, done his sathagam (practice/meditation) besides the machines for which he was an operator, working in TVS got his voluntary retirement and started his own company & fulfilled all his family commitments. Finally in a occasion of renovating the temple which is deteriorating day by day being ancient, his wife a volunteer poojari of the temple, suggested Aacharya to sell their own house and renovate the temple, as they faced neither a big support from the people/big shots nor from the ruling government.

In line with the suggestion the same renovation took place with local peoples support and day after the Kumba Abhisheka, Aacharya decided to quit louthika life and took over Sanyasa along with his wife Matha Parijatham, the decision affected the locality people adversely and having such a great respect to his contribution towards divinity, spirituality & preaching’s of YOGA, people haven’t allowed him to take Sanyasa and pleaded to take care of the temple further for his life time. Both Matha & Aacharya accepted the cry & groan of their loved ones and stayed back, known person of Aacharya gave his land for Aacharya to built a small house and stay, in which Aacharya and his wife is resides till date and it was the place for Aasana classes in terrace and Yoga classes in Hall. All Sath Sang’s meetings took place here and Aacharya decisions were final. From that point of time i.e., 57 years of age to till date 77 years of age he completely surrendered himself in preaching pathanjali yoga to the maximum possible size of people he can as an individual. Unpredicted siddhies what he has attained by the blessings of Pathanjali Maharishi and his continuous practice of YOGA, his disciples and even his wife were surprised. Between 2003 to 2008 few of his disciples were highly educated and trained in the field of Aashtanga Yoga and made them the future trainers of his kendram (Maharishi Shri Pathanjali Yoga Kendram). Aacharya requested his disciples to spread Aashtanga YOGA to the needy as much possible they can in every possible ways. He nominated few of his disciples to take the lessons forward in the digital form of teaching the YOGA art cum knowledge.

As an initiative a blog for YOGA was created namely (http://pathanjaliyoga.blogspot.com) in the year 2008 and created a domain & started a web page (www.maharishipathanjali.com) through Google in the year 2010. Another idea of preaching through facebook, an account (https://www.facebook.com/onlyspritual) named as Sidhar Guru Pathanjali’s Gnana Sabai was created in the year 2011 and still under operation, which is completely in vernacular language Tamil. By this period of time most of the Governments Schools, Old age homes, village students, farmers, Blind homes, Orphanage homes, specially challenged trusts, handicapped organizations in and around Madurai City is trained by Sath Sang mainly on Aasanas, Pranayama & Mudra’s in curing body illness. This Yoga Kendra was officially registered in the year 2012 in the name SWARTHAM SATH SANGAM. Sath Sang Published its first book on Aasanas in the year 2009 & a face lifted version of the same edition was published in the year 2014. These books were given to the students who expressed interest in YOGA but never sold for a single penny. All the expenditure for such trainings and book publishes were born & shared by members of sath sang. In the year 2014 he started renovating one more temple Shri Azhavai Azhangan Nambi in a village called Aritappatti near Melur of Madurai District. Functioned Kumba abhisheka in the year 2016 with support of local village people, in which we use conduct our summer camp for women & village children. Meanwhile one more book called YOGA DEEPAM was published in the year 2015, which was praised highly by YOGA practitioners having very deep message of Aashtanga YOGA and pranava power. Sath Sang has pipelined few more books in YOGA this year. During this period a facebook account on English (https://www.facebook.com/Voice-of-pathanjali-1268865853219712) was began on 2017 namely “voice of pathanjali’ and has received quite good reach throughout the country and abroad, having a different approach it the field of yoga by the way of Aacharya preach towards Aasana and Pathanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga, this web page (http://www.voiceofpathanjali.com) is created in 2019 for the people to get enlightened.

With great love and passion towards Yoga, Aacharya still is working on his YOGA vision in spite of being a COPD patient (effect for working in a production factory), with yoga practice and will power he has managed to survive these many days even after many IP hospitalizations. For more than 3 decades he has fought his life against local protest against temple, constraints faced in preach of yoga as one man army. We at sath sang feel very proud about our guru who maharishi has blessed us in this vast world. He is a dynamic, technical, knowledgeable person and directs all his disciples to lead a happy family life come into world of divinity along with our better half’s. All his disciples were non-vegetarians at debut, presently have become pure vegetarians for the past 15 years, even the disciples complete family become the follower of YOGA Guru Pathanjali Maharishi and a disciple for Aacharya TS Krishnan Ji.  He took his spiritual world as a family and never got a single penny from us for his preaching’s till date. He never sold YOGA for mere money. Instead he made all of us a guru for the next generation of people. Feeling very happy from the bottom of heart the dedication that our Aacharya has pumped in for the welfare of his fellow citizen through YOGA was outstanding.

During ancient days Pathanjali Yoga & Veda’s were preached by Yogi’s, Rishi’s & Sidha’s to their students under Guru Sishya (disciple) pattern. Such preaching were done without any expectation and only for the well being of manhood, nature and other living creatures on earth. By the same way our nation should be benefited out of YOGA at present days of 21^st century. Moreover entire world’s different traces of people should be united by means of yoga making them a family and for the people to realize that yoga is the only tool to unite the world, our Indian Government too organize and demonstrate Yogasana on 21^st June (International Yoga Day) every year in a grand manner. Sath Sang conducts YOGA camp on International Yoga Day in grant manner to reach as much as people/students possible from its inception year 2015, when United Nations General Assembly UNGA announced 21^st June as suggested by our honorable Prime Minister of India, Modiji it as the longest day in a year and promoted for global health, harmony and peace.

YOGA is not only an art and exercise for body but also is a living form/manner (incarnation) of human being with soul. For many periods our former Rishi’s/Yogi’s so called as Ancient Indian Scientists preached Pathanjali Yoga to their people the actual way.  Swartham Sath Sang had a desire that starting from children to all age streams of people irrespective male, female should learn and be benefited out of YOGA, founder Mr.T.S. Krishnan too has adopted same ancient method of preaching YOGA without any expectations from the people and his students. In his way, his students also conduct YOGASANA session at government/municipal schools in and around Madurai district after getting appropriate signoff from concerned authorities for their students & teachers free of cost.

For the past three decades since 1987, Swartham Sath Sang have widely reached YOGA to common people at their door steps, public places/stages, company workers and at schools/colleges according to available space. Sath Sang also have established a YOGA PRATICE CENTRE in the name of Maharishi Sri Pathanjali Yoga Kendram in centric place of Madurai district at Ellis Nagar, near to Madurai Junction & also in a Shivan temple called Sri Azhavai Azhagan Nambi situated in Aritapatti village of Melur Town in Madurai district (at present these classes were conducted vimana (portico) of Temple itself for women & children during summer vacations). By which ways we make an attempt to inculcate practice of YOGA to villager’s in & around Madurai city for farmers, downtrodden people, young & grand generations, students and common public according to their age and health conditions free of cost.

As a sign of encouragement and enthusiasm in taking forward this divine program rurally, we have strengthen our progress in ‘GO GLOBAL GO RURAL’program.

We the disciples of our Guru Yogacharya T S Krishnan, after realizing his competence in the Yoga field who leads a yogi’s life yet now is our role model/pioneer for us, feeling responsible in taking his contribution especially to Southern part of country aspires to take his concept GLOBALLY.

A view of the maharishi deity is given below from a recent full moon day ritual on 2017.

PATHANJALI MAHARISH AT KASI VISHWANATHAR TEMPLE, MADURAI

with love & affection,

Swartham Sath Sangam, Madurai.