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| name = Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja
| image = The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 08, 2015.jpg
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| caption = The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 08, 2015
| birth_date = 1952
| birth_place = Portugal<ref>http://www.yoga-samkhya.pt/en/the-master</ref>
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| occupation = [[Yoga]] guru
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'''Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja''' is a Portugal-based<ref name="You Can India">{{cite web | url=http://www.ucanindia.in/news/four-spiritual-leaders-conferred-padma-award/27596/daily | title=You Can India | publisher=You Can India | date=25 January 2015 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref> Yoga guru, the president of the ''Yoga Portuguese Confederation''<ref name="European Yoga Federation">{{cite web | url=http://www.europeanyogafederation.net/delegations.htm | title=Yoga Federation | publisher=Yoga Federation | date=2015 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref><ref name="DNA India">{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report-there-is-world-toilet-day-but-no-world-yoga-day-sri-sri-ravi-shankar-1622019 | title=DNA India | publisher=DNA India | date=6 December 2011 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref> and the founder of ''Yoga Sámkhya Institute'', Portugal.<ref name="Yoga Samkhya">{{cite web | url=http://www.yoga-samkhya.pt/en/the-master | title=Yoga Samkhya | publisher=Yoga Samkhya | date=2015 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ujjain Yoga Life Society">{{cite web | url=http://www.yogalife.co.in/guest-speakers/ | title=Ujjain Yoga Life Society | publisher=Ujjain Yoga Life Society | date=2015 | accessdate=March 7, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216213235/http://www.yogalife.co.in/guest-speakers/ | archive-date=2014-12-16 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Jagatguru Swami Amrut Suryananda Ji Maharaja in IYS-2012">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4yFa_kqq4 | title=Jagatguru Swami Amrut Suryananda Ji Maharaja in IYS-2012 | publisher=Pundit Radheshyam Mishra | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=30 October 2012 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref> Born in Portugal in 1952, he started learning the Indian tradition of [[Yoga]] in his twenties from Krshnánandaji of the Shivánanda Áshrama,<ref name="Yoga Samkhya"/> located in [[Rishikesh]] in [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] valley.<ref name="Yoga Samkhya" /> He is also known to have been influenced by [[Aurobindo]], [[Vivekananda]], Satyananda, Kuvalayananda and [[Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]].<ref name="Yoga Samkhya" />

Amrta Suryananda is the author of two books on Yoga, ''Chakra Sútra – The 7 Main Chakra in Yoga'' and ''Sámkhya, Cosmo genesis and Yoga – Beyond Hydrogen''.<ref name="Yoga Samkhya" /> He is also reported to be writing an encyclopedia on yoga and is in the process of translating [[Yoga Sutra]] of [[Patanjali]] into [[Portuguese language]].<ref name="Yoga Samkhya" /><ref name="Ujjain Yoga Life Society"/> The [[Government of India]] honoured him in 2015 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2015 |accessdate=February 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128022143/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |archivedate=January 28, 2015 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Patanjali]]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4yFa_kqq4 | title=Jagatguru Swami Amrut Suryananda Ji Maharaja in IYS-2012 | publisher=Pundit Radheshyam Mishra | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=30 October 2012 | accessdate=March 7, 2015}}
* http://www.jagatguruamrtasuryananda.org/

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