The students affectionately called him вЂњBabaвЂќ and he reciprocated with affection and love. Saturday evening classes started in Chelmsford Public Library Carriage House and became popular. Some of the local practitioners in eastern mysticism noticed his work and requested him to conduct yoga classes for the public. While in Chelmsford, he visited the Chelmsford Public Library and helped treat the Librarian from her chronic illness using yoga therapy. They immigrated to the US in 1982 and Dr. Rao and the family decided to immigrate to the United States to stay near his eldest daughter Mohini, who lived in Chelmsford, MA. His wife s uffered an untimely death because of a medical complication and Dr. He himself remained actively engaged in yogic education. He raised five children with his wife and took care of their education and well being. He married Vardhanamma Narasinghadevara and had a happy family life.

He was active in yoga conferences and propagation of yoga through camps and clinics. Meanwhile he had started a yoga journal called вЂњYoga SadhanвЂќ and ran yoga training centers in his village and the neighboring areas. Later he did studies in human anatomy and yoga therapy at Swami Venkateswar University, Tirupati and earned a Doctor of Yoga Education degree. He took initiation in yoga in 1943 and was one of the few yogis who were directly initiated by Ramlalji Maharaj. In 1938, while visiting Rishikesh in the Himalayas with his family, he met Yogi Ramlalji Maharaj, whom he accepted as his guru. He was employed as a manager in the Cooperative Rural Bank and supported the family. He tr eated villagers with token support and distributed medicine freely.

He was a master in homeopathy and ran his own clinic in the village. He furthered his studies in engaging himself in alternative medicine treatment and took a Diploma from University of Chicago through their Distance Education program. Rao was educated in the village school at the elementary and secondary level and finally entered Andhra University for higher education. The family helped Pandit Sastry in the operation of the Sanskrit school. Aspiring students from many neighboring villages assembled for training in the Vedas and the scri ptures i n the school. Pandit Sastry was a great Sanskrit scholar and had his own Sanskrit training school in his village. His fatherвЂ™s name was Pandit Rama Sastry and his mother was Subbalaxmi Cherla.

Vedula Satyananda Rao was born in Kakaraparru village of West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, India, on November 28, 1925.

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