Swami Nityananda Saraswati, the Rev. Adano Christopher Ley, N.D. was originally from British Guiana, now Guyana, South America. His ancestral background is Mongolian from his father and Spanish Carib Indian and Chinese from his mother. His spiritual heritage and training were both Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Buddhist).
Born the 7th child of 10 near Georgetown, British Guiana, his parents were prosperous traders in raw materials and operated a general store in the village that his grandfather had helped to build out of the jungle when the British were opening that territory. At first in training to become a Catholic Priest, he was told that he was too much of a mystic to become a priest. (Adano told me that this problem came to a head when he asked the parish priest who was teaching him why all the books about the saints were not available to be read by everyone, whereupon his mentor replied that that information was not taught to the general church body, but rather the catechism was taught, and that he (Adano) was a mystic. Adano said he went home in tears, and told his father that he was a misfit!)
So at the ripe old age of 7 (!) Adano was apprenticed to a tailor since his father insisted that if Adano did not want to go to school (Adano said, "They can't teach me what I need to learn"), then he would have to work! As luck would have it (Good Karma?) the tailor was from India and had an extensive library of the world's religions from which Adano was freely able to draw.
Visit Adano at his own web site:
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