Neo-Vedantic Romantic who made pure heart alone and scientific religion reachable for everyman Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905), during his lifetime was called Maharishi (“Great Sage”), was born in Calcutta in West Bengal, British India, to a wealthy land-owner family, and died 1905 in Calcutta.

The way Modern Yoga has been practiced throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is worlds apart from all the forms of classical Yoga.