Amma, born on the 15th of August 1954 at Sangam, in the district of Nellore in Andra Pradesh, and Bhagavan, born on 7th March 1949 at Natham, in the district of Arcot in Ta,il Nadu, in the south of India, are husband and wife and have a child, Krishna, 32 years old.

The University took its first steps at the end of the 80’s in a small school, called Jeevashram. In July 1989 some young students – first of all, Krishna, Amma’s and Bhagavan’s son, besides Anananda Giri and Samadarshini – started to spontaneously experience, deep transformations in their normal perception of reality. It’s like if they had started to access new and higher states of consciousness and to feel within themselves a particular energy, which revealed itself to be transferable to others and which has been called Oneness Diksha.

Beginning from those special experiences, in course of time a process was initiated which has lead Amma and Bhagavan to train about 200 young people, which today are the teacher and coordinators of the University.

At the Oneness University, founded in 2002, people from all over the world attend the courses to become Diksha Giver and to share with others their own experience, transmitting the Diksha themselves.

Amma and Bhagavan are well known and respected in India where they are considered as “avatar” of the awakening of consciousness. Avatar is a term of the Indian tradition which can be translated as “genius” and refers to a human being which is particularly inspired and gifted in a special field, discipline or field and who has come into this world to manifest and spread that knowledge. With this point of view in mind we can say that Francis of Assisi has been an avatar of universal love, Socrates of knowledge of Self, but also Mozart was one of music, Dante of poetry, Einstein of Physics…