（2005年，在他90岁生日时）

 

 5月18日，早上2.30，我们亲爱的 Guruji----Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 离开了我们。

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois引领着ashtanga,让这种经典而严谨的固定序列练习风靡全球。guruji大师离我们远去，全世界的练习者都在缅怀。

我去Mysore练习过6次，有幸他老人家教过我三次, (后三次由他的女儿和孙子教),得知此消息时我满脑海都是他老人家的音容笑貌,他的话语......心里空空的,记得有很多次,在他喊口令时,我凝视着他的侧脸,想多看一下这位传奇大师. 后几次到Mysore练习时看到老人家消瘦,不禁哽咽.

他是严师,又充满了爱和慈祥.

 

 

Guruji的音容仍在眼前。

从1937年开始，在63年的时间里，Guruji不间断的教授这种古老的练习方式，直至风靡全球。  年幼时有着惊人的毅力，每天走十几里路去老师Sri T. Krishnamacharya那里去学瑜伽， 他老人家70多年一直教授 Ashtanga ，从不间断，大半生贫苦，直到八几年Ashtanga才扬名西方，以前他的教室才能装十几个学生， 2002年才移到大教室（一次能容纳学生80人，现由他的孙子主管）。

Guruji毕生教授的Vinyasa 瑜珈，对西方乃至全世界的瑜伽发展影响极大，美国出名的瑜伽老师几乎都练过或练过多年的Ashtanga，由Ashtanga派生出来的Vinyasa, 流瑜伽，活力瑜伽，如今占人们练习的百分之八，九十，绝大部分瑜珈练习者都是Guruji直接或间接的学生。

如果你练习的瑜伽是动作连贯，体位与呼吸配合，那么他就是你的老师。

 

走

 

我们在心里默默为尊师祈祷:愿他安详，幸福, Om Shanthi !

 

 

Guruji生平

   生于1915年六月满月的时候。他的家乡，Kowshika,在这个地区附近的一个叫Hassan的地方，居住了大概

500人，一条主街道。街道的一头是Vishnv庙，就挨着他的家。在另一头，仅只100码的距离，坐落着一个

小的Ganapati庙，相对着的，就是一个Siva庙。都存在了几百年，是这个村的骄傲。

   他的父亲是一个占星家，一个教父，担当着为村里许多家庭pujari的角色。在很小的时候，与大多数婆

罗门的男孩一样，Pattabhi Jois被灌输了佛陀和印度仪式的知识。
     当Guruji12岁的时候，他参加了在哈桑他所在中学的一个瑜伽表演。第二天他见到了一个伟大的瑜伽师

，他观看了这次表演，他已经从师与他的古鲁（领袖）Rama Mohan Brahmachari，在西藏隐居学习瑜伽八

年时间。在接下来的两年里，Guruji跟从他的古鲁每天学习。当Guruji14岁时，他有了婆罗门加冠礼。

Krishnamacharya 离开哈桑游历教学，Guruji离开家乡去了迈索尔。

    Guruji希望能加入迈索尔的梵文大学。在口袋里有两卢比的情况下，他和他的两个朋友离开了。他们又骑自行车旅行走过了100千米的泥土路。在最初的一到两年里，生活是非常困难的。只有很少一点钱，他想

那些婆罗门家庭乞讨事物。Guruji参加课程，继续他的学习。然后，在1930年左右，他去了一场瑜伽表演

看到了他的古鲁。他前去致拜，他们有继续了他们的师徒之缘。
     迈索尔的王公(印度对君候之敬称） Krishna Rajendra Wodeyar病了。他知道有一个伟大的瑜伽师来到了迈索尔。他召见了他。瑜伽师治愈了他。王公成了他的支持者，在皇家艺术馆给他建造了一个瑜伽学校.

王公，告诉Guruji,"我想让你在梵文学校教瑜伽。你来教。我会给你奖学金去学校，在我的食堂的免费事

物和薪水。”Guruji非常开心，向他的古鲁请求许可。Krishnamacharya认可了，梵文学校的瑜伽分院在

1937年3月1号正式成立。他一直作为领头人一直到1973年退休。
    从1973年直到1973年，Guruji在大学中赢得了他的教授职位，授予vidvan的称号。他与一个来自于历史悠久的梵文学者Savitramma组成了一个幸福的家庭。她的祖父是梵文和哲学教师。他们有三个孩子，Manju,

Ramesh, 和Saraswati。Saraswati是Sharath的妈妈。Sharath于1971年生，现在是Guruji在迈索尔学校

的主管。

     在1964年，Andre Van Lysbeth成为从师与Guruji的第一个西方人。在这之后，更多的欧洲人跟他学习。在大约1972年，第一个美国人跟他学习。在Gitananda阁下在Pondicherri的修行处所见到Guruji。也就是在这个时候阿斯汤加瑜伽开始流传到美国。从加利福尼亚州开始，稍后在夏威夷流行。在1975年，Guruji

和Manju第一次旅行到美国。在接下来的25年中，阿斯汤加练习传遍了整个美国，法国，德国，俄国，日

本，以色列，智利，英国，意大利，西班牙，瑞士，加拿大，澳大利亚，新西兰等等国家。63年的时间里

，Guruji不间断的教授这种他在1927年从Krishnamacharya那里学到的相同的练习。

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  Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was born on the full moon day of July, 1915, Guru Purnima day. His

ancestral village, Kowshika, near Hassan in Karnataka State, is inhabited by maybe 500

people and has one main street. At one end of the street is a Vishnu temple, just next to

Pattabhi Jois' home. At the far end of the street, just 100 yards away, lies a small

Ganapati temple, and just opposite, a Siva temple. Both are several hundreds years old, and

are the focus of the village.

Pattabhi Jois's father was an astrologer and a priest, who acted as the pujari for many of

the families in the village. From an early age, as most brahmin boys, Pattabhi Jois was

taught the Vedas and Hindu rituals.

 When Guruji was 12 years old, he attended a yoga demonstration at his middle school in

Hassan. The next day he went to meet the great yogi who had given the demonstration, a man

by the name of Sri T. Krishnamacharya, who had learned yoga for nearly eight years from his

Guru, Rama Mohan Brahmachari in a cave in Tibet. For the next two years, Guruji learned from

his Guru every day. When Guruji turned 14, he had his brahmin thread ceremony.

Krishnamacharya left Hassan to travel and teach, and Guruji left his village to go to

Mysore. 

Guruji wished to attend the Sanskrit University of Mysore. With two rupees in his pocket, he

left with two friends. They traveled the 100 plus kilometers by bike, over dirt roads. For

the first year or two, life was very difficult. With very little money, he begged for his

food from some of the brahmin houses. Guruji attended classes and did his studies. Then,

around 1930, he went to a yoga demonstration and saw that it was his Guru. He came forward

and prostrated, and they recommenced their relationship, and Guruji his yoga studies.

The Maharaja of Mysore, Krishna Rajendra Wodeyar, had fallen ill. He learned that there was

a great yogi who had come to Mysore. Krishnamacharya was called to him, and duly cured him.

The Maharaja became a great patron of his and built him a yogashala (school of yoga) on the

grounds of the Palace Art Gallery. Guruji was also beckoned to teach the Maharaja on

occasion, and was called upon several times to give yoga demonstrations. The Maharaja, who

had taken a liking for Guruji, told him, "I want you to teach yoga at the Sanskrit College.

You teach. I will give you a scholarship to go to school, free food in my mess hall and a

salary." Guruji, very happy, asked permission from his Guru. Krishnamacharya approved, and

the Yoga Department of the Sanskrit College began on March 1, 1937. He continued as the head

until his retirement in 1973.

From 1937 until 1973, Guruji earned his professorship at the University, granting him the

title of Vidvan. He married, in a love marriage, Savitramma, who came from a long line of

Sanskrit scholars.  Her grandfather was the Sanskrit  and philosophy teacher  to the last

Shankaracharya of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati. They had three children, Manju,

Ramesh, and Saraswati. Saraswati is the mother of Sharath, born in 1971, who is now Guruji's

co-director of their school in Mysore.

In 1964, Andre Van Lysbeth bacame the first Westener to study with Guruji. Soon after that,

more Europeans came. Around 1972, the first Americans came, after meeting Manju at Swami

Gitananda's ashram in Pondicherri. It was at that point that ashtanga yoga began spreading

in America, starting in California, and then later emerging in Hawaii. In 1975, Guruji and

Manju made their first trip to America. Over the next 25 years, the practice spread through

the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Israel, Chile, England, Italy, Spain,

Switzerland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Guruji has, for 63 years, been teaching

uninterruptedly this same method that he learned from Krishnamacharya in 1927。

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