Pandit rajmani tigunait biography of abraham

Whether he’s teaching Tantra, singing mantras, or leading Americans on a pilgrimage to India’s sacred sites, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait is full of joie de vivre. Raised in an orthodox Brahmin family, his first spiritual teachers were his parents.

He went on to study with yogis across his beloved India before moving to the United States in 1979 at the invitation of his guru, Swami Rama. For the past 30 years, he has traveled the globe as a teacher and currently serves as the head of the Himalayan Institute, a nonprofit yoga center based in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

What was your childhood in India like?

My father was a Sanskrit scholar.

Just by watching what my parents were doing—pranayama, meditation, scripture recitation—I learned. Also, I went to a Sanskrit school, where I was educated just as children in India were educated a thousan