Search engine giant is celebrating Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar’s 97th birth anniversary with a creative doodle which shows various Yoga asanas devised by him.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, popularly known as BKS Iyengar was born on December 14, 1918 in Bellur in Karnataka. Iyenger founded his own Yoga style known as ‘Iyengar Yoga’.
BKS Iyengar is considered as one of the well known yoga teachers across the world and is author of many books on Yoga including ‘Light on Pranayama’, ‘Yoga Sutras of Patanjali’ and ‘Light on Yoga’.
Government awarded Iyengar with Padma Shri in 1991, the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2014. His fame gained him spot among the list of 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2004.
BKS Iyengar breathed his last at the age of 95 year on 20 August, 2014.
The Google Doodle on Yoga guru BKS Iyengar also holds importance as United Nations on 11 December 2014, proclaimed 21st June as International Yoga Day as suggested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Google Doodle will surely make more and more people aware about benefits of Yoga as well as about Yoga guru B K S Iyengar and his works.