Modern yoga gurus

[3] For example, Gurumayi's Siddha Yoga pays careful attention to her predecessors, Muktananda and Bhagawan Nityananda.

[9] Another major change was introduced by Vivekananda; his Ramakrishna Mission set the example of public service in education and medicine, something now practised by many other Indian religious movements.

[3] The trend away from authority is continued in post-lineage yoga, which is practised outside any major school or guru's lineage.

[15][16][17][18][19] Anthony Storr has documented, for example, the excesses of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh;[20] Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad have examined the betrayal of trust that is involved.

[21] Swami Vivekananda said early in the modern era that there are many incompetent gurus, and that a true guru should understand the spirit of the scriptures, have a pure character and be free from sin, and should be selfless, without desire for money and fame.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced The Beatles , and the West, to gurus, mantras , and meditation in the late 1960s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. [ 3 ] Watercolour , Punjab Hills, India, 1740
Yogendra , an acknowledged pioneer of modern yoga, [ 10 ] rejected the traditional guru role in favour of something more modern. [ 11 ]