Mouni Maharaj
"The purpose of Yoga is to know the Self."
Mouni Maharaj was born in Rajasthan around 1899 and trained in the Himalayan tradition of Raja Yoga. He left the Himalayas around 1935 and taught for seven decades, first in the Punjab and later from his ashram in the Rajasthan desert, becoming probably the most deeply respected yogi in Rajasthan and the Punjab. He continued teaching to the end of his life, and died in 2007.
When Patrick Kelly first visited him in 1977, Mouni Maharaj offered to teach him the genuine, little-known methods of Raja Yoga, and Patrick returned to him periodically over the following decades.