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The lineage

The practice as it is taught today, and the lineage of Sadguru who is carrying the light forward.

A portrait of Anant Shri Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj, seated cross-legged in meditation
The founder, in meditation

Anant Shri Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj

Born in 1888 into a family of yogis, he went to Kashi at eleven to study Sanskrit, was turned away, and took up meditation instead. In 1924, after seventeen years of practice, he rediscovered this ancient path and taught it openly to everyone — and wrote the Swarved, the scripture of this science of consciousness, so it would be kept as he taught it. He left his body on 11 February 1954.

A portrait of Sadguru Shri Dharamchandra Deo Ji Maharaj, seated cross-legged with his hands at rest
First Pramparā Sadguru

Sadguru Shri Dharamchandra Deo Ji Maharaj

Born on Maha Shivaratri in 1919, the only son of Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj, who named him his successor fifteen years before his own passing. He carried the Sadguru's authority for fifteen years from 1954, and wrote the commentary on the Swarved — with ten further works — that opened the text to those who came after. He left his body on 28 July 1969.

A portrait of Sadguru Shri Swatantra Deo Ji Maharaj, seated cross-legged with his right hand raised
The Present Sadguru

Sadguru Shri Swatantra Deo Ji Maharaj

Born on 28 July 1947 at Garhwar in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh: grandson of Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj, and third son of Sadguru Dharamchandra Deo Ji Maharaj. He studied Sanskrit and the Vedas at Kashi, and received the Sadguru's authority in 1969, at twenty-two, as the second Pramparā Sadguru. The practice is carried today under his guidance, and practised in more than 50 countries as Brahma Vidyā.

Sant Pravar, the foremost saint

Sant Pravar Vigyandeo Ji Maharaj

Born in 1978 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh: great-grandson of Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj, grandson of Sadguru Dharamchandra Deo Ji Maharaj, and elder son of Sadguru Swatantra Deo Ji Maharaj. He originated the Swarved Kathamrit, which sets the Swarved to melody, and has written Divya Vani, Sant Vigyandeo Vachanamrit and Adhyatm Vigyan. He has taken an oath to carry the message of the Swarved to every person.

The Swarved Mahamandir in Varanasi, opened in December 2023, is one of the largest meditation centres in the world, with verses of the Swarved carved into its walls. See the Mahamandir