Sahaja Biographical Dictionary

The entries in Saints, Sufis, and Yogis: a Biographical Dictionary of Realised Souls
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Abraham (Jewish leader)
Akbar (Indian emperor)
Alban (early British Christian martyr)
Albinoni, Tomaso (Italian musician/composer)
Alfonso, El Sabio (Portuguese king)
Ali (son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad)
Amalric of Bena (French theologian)
Andreev, Daniil (Russian writer)
Attar (Persian poet)
Avaiyar (Tamil)

Babaji (guru of Tukaram)
Bach, J.S. (musician/composer)
Bahina (Maratha)
Bhusuka (Sahajiya Buddhist)
Blake, William (English poet & artist)
Boehme, Jacob (German mystic)
Buddha
Bullhe Shah (Sufi)

Caitanya (Bengali)
Changadeva (Maratha)
Chishti, Mu'inuddin Hasan (Sufi)
Chokhamala (Maratha)
Confucius (Chinese sage)

Dadu Dayal (Rajasthan)
Dante Alighieri (Italian writer)
David (Jewish king)
Da Vinci, Leonardo (Italian artist/scientist)
Dhanna (Rajastani)
Dunstable, John (English musician/composer)

Eckhart, Meister (German mystic)
Einstein, Albert (scientist)
Eknath (Maratha)

Farid, Baba (Sufi)
Fatima (daughter of the Prophet Mohammad)

Gahininath (Nath yogi)
Gandhi, M.K. (Indian leader)
Gandhi, Rajiv (Indian leader)
Gibran, Gibran Kahlil (Lebanese writer/painter)
Goethe (German writer)
Gora (the potter, Maratha)
Gorakhnath (Nath yogi)
Gorbachev, Mikhail (Russian leader)
Greco (Spanish artist)

Handel, George Frideric (musician/composer)
Hildegard of Bingen (German mystic)

Ibn 'Arabi (Sufi)
Indrabhuti (Sahaj mystic)
Isaac the Syrian (Christian ascetic)
Issa (Jesus)

James (brother of Issa/Jesus)
Janaka (Indian king)
Janardan Swami (guru of Eknath)
Jani (Janabai) (Maratha)
Jijabai (Maratha, mother of Shivaji)
Jnaneshwara (Maratha)
Joachim of Fiore (Italy)
Joan of Arc (French mystic)
John of Patmos (writer of Revelations)
John the Baptist (Jewish)
Jones, Melvin (founder of Lions Clubs)
Joshi, Bhimsen (Indian singer)
Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross) (Spanish mystic)
Jung, Carl (psychologist)

Kabir (north India)
Kanha (Sahajiya Buddhist)
Khanopatra (Maratha)
Khusrau, Amir (Sufi)
King, Martin Luther (American leader)
Krishnamurti Aiyer, N.R. (follower of Ramana Maharshi)

Lalla (Kashmir)
Lange, David (New Zealand leader)
Lao Tse (Chinese sage)
Latif, Shah Abdul (Sufi)
Lenin, Vladimir (Russian leader)
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian artist and scientist)
Lewis, C.S. (English writer)
Lincoln, Abraham (American leader)
Lui (Sahajiya Buddhist)
Luther, Martin (German religious)

Mahavira (Jain saint)
Mani (Persian mystic)
Maria Theresa (European queen)
Marie-Antoinette (French queen)
Markandeya (Indian sage)
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary Magdalene (disciple of Jesus)
Mascaro, Juan (translator)
Matsyendranath (Nath yogi)
Maugham, Somerset (English writer)
Merezhkovskii, Dmitrii (Russian writer/prophet)
Michelangelo (Italian artist)
Mohammad (Prophet)
Montessori, Maria (Italian educationalist)
Moses (Jewish leader)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (musician/composer)
Muktabai (Maratha)

Namdev (Maratha)
Nanak, Guru (Punjab)
Newton, Isaac (English scientist)
Nirmala Devi, Shri Mataji (spiritual leader)
Nivritti (Maratha)
Nizamuddin (Indian Sufi)
Novalis (German writer)
Nund Rishi (Sheikh Nur-ud-Din/Sahazanand) (Kashmiri Sufi/yogi)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Sufi qawwali singer)

Paracelsus (doctor, Europe)
Patanjali (Indian yogi)
Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter)
Pipa (Rajasthani king)
Porete, Margaret (European mystic)

Rabi'a (Sufi)
Ramana Maharshi (Indian guru)
Ramanand (guru of Kabir)
Ramdas, Samarth (17th century)
Ramdas, Swami (20th century)
Ramprasad Sen (Bengal)
Raphael (Italian artist)
Ravidas (Raidas) (contemporary of Kabir)
Roerich, Nicholas (Russian exile and mystic)
Rumi (Sufi)
Rupa Bhavani (Kashmir)

Sachal (Sufi)
Sadat, Anwar (Egyptian leader)
Sa'di (Sufi)
Sahaidachnyi, Petro (Cossack leader, Ukraine)
Sai Nath (India)
Salve, H.P. (Babamama)
Salve, Prasadrao (Indian scholar)
Sami (Sufi)
Sankaracharya (yogi)
Saraha (Sahajiya Buddhist)
Sena (Rajasthan)
Shakespeare, William
Shastri, Lal Bahadur (Indian statesman)
Shevchenko, Taras (Ukrainian poet/artist)
Shivaji (Maratha king)
Skovoroda, Hryhorij (Ukraine)
Socrates (Greek sage)
Sopandev (Maratha)
Srivastava, Sir C.P. (international administrator/writer)
Sundardas (Rajasthan)

Tagore, Rabindranath (Bengal)
Tansen (Indian singer in Akbar's court)
Teresa of Avila (Spanish mystic)
Thirumoolar (Tamil yogi)
Thomas (disciple of Jesus)
Tolstoy, Leo (Russian writer)
Tukaram (Maratha)
Tutu, Desmond (South African activist)

Vishivanath (Nath yogi)
Visoba Kechar (guru of Namdev)
Vivaldi, Antonio (Italian musician/composer)
Voloshin, Maximillian (Russian poet and artist)
Vyasa (Indian sage)

Yaroslav the Wise (Rus' prince)

Wordsworth, William (English writer)

Zarathustra (Zoroaster) (Persian prophet)

updated 28/9/09