Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao
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Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and 272 kilometres from Chennai, it is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam...
, Tamilnadu, India
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– 1922-03-12) was a Yoga
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guru
Guru
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Biography
Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao was born in a NiyogiNiyogi
Niyogis are a sect of Hindu Brahmins who gave up priestly occupations and are predominantly Telugu language speakers, from Andhra Pradesh, India.-Theories of origin:...
family which had migrated from the Andhra
Coastal Andhra
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area in the 14th or 15th century. He had his elementary education at Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and 272 kilometres from Chennai, it is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam...
, and his secondary education at Srirangam. Around the age of 18, he came across theosophical
Theosophy
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literature.
He married Sow Rukmini when he was 12 years old; they had three sons and three daughters. She died when he was 36 and at 38 he married Venkamma and through her he had three sons and a daughter.
Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao was influenced by H.P. Blavatsky.
Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao started Bhrukta Rahita Taraka Raja Yoga on 1910-05-29. He started classes in this new form of yoga in 1912, with Sri Satchidananda Saraswathi of Kanchi as his personal secretary. Among the followers of this new yogic path were Ekkirala Krishnamacharya
Ekkirala Krishnamacharya
Dr Ekkirala Krisnamacharya also known as Master E K was at Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh to Sri Ananthacharya and Smt Butchamma.-Introduction:...
, Potharaju Narasimham, Veturi Prabhakara Sastry and T. S. Sankara Iyer.
Canchupati Venkatrao Vencasami Rao left his physical body in 1922-05-12, his wife in 1940.