About the Author

Michael Beloved (Yogi Madhvacharya) took his current body in 1951 in Guyana. In 1965, while living in Trinidad, he instinctively began doing yoga postures and tried to make sense of the supernatural side of life. Later on, in 1970, in the Philippines, he approached a Martial Arts Master named Mr. Arthur Beverford, explaining to the teacher that he was seeking a yoga instructor. Mr. Beverford identified himself as an advanced disciple of Rishi Singh Gherwal, an astanga yoga master. Mr. Beverford taught the traditional Ashtanga Yoga with stress on postures, attentive breathing and brow chakra centering meditation. In 1972, Madhvacharya entered the Denver Colorado Ashram of Kundalini Yoga Master Sri Harbhajan Singh. There he took instruction in Bhastrika Pranayama and its application to yoga postures. He was supervised mostly by Yogi Bhajan's disciple named Prem Kaur. In 1979 Madhvacharya formally entered the disciplic succession of the Brahma-Madhava-Gaudiya Sampradaya through Swami Kirtanananda, who was a prominent sannyasi disciple of the Great Vaishnava Authority Sri Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, the exponent of devotion to Sri Krishna. After carefully studying and practicing the devotional process introduced by Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, Madhvacharya was inspired to do a translation of the Bhagavad Gita, which is published with commentary, under the title of Bhagavad Gita Explained. The same translation without commentary is published as Bhagavad Gita English. And the same with Sanskrit text and word-for-word meanings, is published as Bhagavad Gita Revealed. He published a second commentary for Kriya yogins, under the title of Kriya Yoga Bhagavad Gita. This publication, his third commentary is for brahma yogins. It was dictated to him by Mahasiddha Swami Nityananda, who no longer uses a gross body and whose contact he experienced through clairvoyance and clairaudience.