Rishi Vasishthananda has been teaching yoga as taught by Swami

Satyananda since 1968. He has co-founded and served as acharya of

Satyananda ashrams and yoga centres in Austria, 1970, Northern Ireland,
1969, England, 1975–84, and Canada, 1982–present. He was one of the
early pioneers of computer science at IBM, and worked at most major
research laboratories throughout Europe and North America, as well as
teaching computer science at several leading universities worldwide. He
received poorna sannyasa in 1982 and rishi sannyasa in 2006.

Swami Satyananda Saraswati was the greatest siddha of the

twentieth century. A siddha, perfect one, is an individual who is
capable of bringing to successful fruition any chosen undertaking.
Having accompanied Sri Swamiji on his journey for forty-one years,
both close at hand and far apart, in the West and in India, I will try
to elucidate Sri Swamiji’s nature as revealed to me over what he
once called our long friendship.

In 1958, a volume called ‘The Life and Works of Swami Satyananda’

was produced at the behest of his guru Swami Sivananda in which
his gurubhais expressed above all his ability to undertake any task
to a successful conclusion. His primary undertaking, also
emphasized by all writers, was the perfection of sadhana. All stated
that none at the ashram surpassed him concerning his own sadhana
in spite of his numerous other duties, all performed with absolute
devotion to guru.

After leaving the Rishikesh ashram to fulfil his guru’s wish to spread
yoga throughout the world, he traveled far and wide in the Indian
subcontinent until establishing the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger.
A few years later he came to the West for the first time to begin the
initial steps of his introduction and establishment of a classical, but
also a scientific approach to yoga. It was at this point in time, 1968,
that I met Sri Swamiji in Vienna, Austria.