Atal Bihari Vajpayee

(December 25, 1924, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India-Alive). 10th and 12th Prime Minister of India, 1996, 1998-2004. Poet. Active in the Quit India movement, 1942-1945. Iniitially a Communist, he later joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Member, Lok Sabha, 1957-2005. Briefly jailed during the State of Emergency. Bharatiya Jana Sangh Union Minister for External Affairs, 1977-1979. Founding President, Bharatiya Janata Party, 1977. Prime Minister of India, May 16-June 1, 1996, March 19, 1998-May 22, 2004.

Swami Anand Veeresh

(1938, New York, New York-Alive). Hindu Swami and Yoga Master. Also known as Veeresh D. Yuson-Sanchez. A follower of Osho. Therapist. Hindu Swami and Yoga Master. Founder, Humaniversity, 1978.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman

(December 4, 1910, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India-Alive). 8th President of India, 1987-1992. Member of the Indian National Congress. Held in detention for two years under British Defence of India Rule, 1942-1944. Congress Member, Indian Provisional Parliament, 1950-1952. Congress Member, Lok Sabha, 1952-1957, 1977-. Union Minister of Finance, 1980-1982. Union Minister of Defence, 1982-1984. Vice President of India, 1984-1987. 8th President of India, July 25, 1987-July 25, 1992.

His Holiness Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

(October 15, 1942, Berkeley, California-Alive). Hindu Satguru and Swami. Began spiritual studies with the Self Realization Fellowship, 1960. Met Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (Gurudeva) at Mountain Desert Monastery, 1964. Joined the Monastery, June, 1965, taking Sadhaka vows, August, 1965. Manager, Master Course Correspondence Study. Moved to Kauai Aadheenam, February, 1970. Received sannyas diksha, March, 1972. Given name Velanswami. Lived for a time as a complete hermit. Received Acharya Diksha, Saiva Siddhanta Yoga Order, 1988. Named successor to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 1995. On retreat, 1997-1999. Initiated as Paramacharya, 1997. Senior Monk, San Marga Iraivan Temple, Kapaa, Hawaii. Satguru, succeeding Gurudeva, October 21, 2001-Current.

His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami

(1957, England-Alive). Hindu Swami. First initiated on Janmastami, 1975. Joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness and took the name Ilapati Dasa, 1975. Visited India, 1976 and lived in India and Bangladesh after 1977. Ordained sannyasin and took name Bhakti Vikasa Swami. Began accepting disciples in 1991. Now has more than 200 initiated disciples. Author.

His Highness Maharajah Shri Bhojrajjisinhji Vikramsinh Sahib of Gondal

(October 13, 1914-August 22, 1969). Maharajah of Gondal, 1952-1969. Married Her Highness Maharani Shri Kumari Shri Nainkunwarba Sahiba, May 12, 1937.

Swami Nostradamus Virato

Guru and Enlightened Spiritual Teacher of Human Potential and Holistic Health. Initiated into sannyas by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho). Became a swami, January 10, 1980. Director, Premsagar Rajneesh Mediation Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982-1984. Director, Association for Humanistic Psychology. Founder and Publisher, New Frontier Magazine. The first person to bring Tantra to Russia, 1992. Director, Nepal Institute. Teaches spiritual sexuality.

His Eminence Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil

(May 29, 1927, Parur, India-Alive). Archbishop Major of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India, Syro-Malabar Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. A Redemptorist Priest since 1954. Vithayathil served as Provincial Superior of his order for India and Sri Lanka, 1978-1984. For 25 years, he taught Canon Law at the Redemptorist Major Seminary of Bangalore. Apostolic Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar Rite, April 19, 1997. Archbishop Major of Ernakulam-Angamaly, December 3, 1999. Elevated to the College of Cardinals, February 2, 2001.