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Swami Isa His Holiness Jagadguru Swami Isa (pronounced “Ee-Sha”), born in 1952, is a spiritual master, educationist, philosopher, scientist and social activist, who is revered by his followers as a saint. Swami Isa is the founder of the Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust, the Global Energy Parliament, the GEP Research Center, the Isa Viswa Vidyalayam, the Isalayam Ashram and the Isa Universal Centre for Higher Studies.

Swami Isa coined the term "Total Consciousness," referring to the universal awareness, or total happiness, innate in every being. In 2010, at the first international session of the Global Energy Parliament, he gave a scientific explanation about consciousness and matter in his new theory of everything, the "I theory." [See "Energy Concept" below for more details.] He has also developed an educational methodology, Education for Total Consciousness, and a yoga system, Life for Total Consciousness.

Education Work
Education for Total Consciousness (ETC) is Swami Isa’s educational methodology. It integrates objective knowledge with subjective learning, bypassing the examination-focused techniques of memorization and regurgitation, and makes learning a process of scientific analysis, inner awareness, reflection and realization.

An international conference in 2001 and annual national conferences are held on ETC by the Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust. The conferences were first chaired by the late Dr. K. Sivadasan Pillai, (Late) Former Director, Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Kerala and currently by Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair, Former Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

“Swamiji has developed a novel system of education which will help humans to contain conflicts, intolerance and distrust among individuals, by developing a superior understanding of the human being and the universe of which he is a part,” wrote Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair in 2001. “Swamiji attributes the incidence of violence and distrust to distorted human thinking and wrong perception of human beings and of the external world, perpetuated through the wrong type of education that we practice. The correction has to come from within education.”

Swami Isa himself writes that “Modern education subjects each factor of the external world to careful observation and study, reaching up to the atomic structure of the object. But no effort is made to study or analyse the internal entity. Identifying with the topic means the realization that whatever exists outside is present within, and that both are the same. This is the enlightened state of education.”

Other Influence
2005 Swami Isa gained renown in the vedic community for conducting the rare Amba Yaga (Energy Activation Ceremony) at Manideep, Kerala. As reported in The Hindu, Swami Isa conducted the yoga in the same manner as Veda Vyasa was believed to have done 5000 years ago. "Veda Vyasa is believed to have conducted the Amba Yaga on the request of King Janamejaya who was stricken with leprosy and whose kingdom was flooded with violence. The yaga had resulted in restoring harmony to nature and doing away with natural disasters." . The Yaga was performed by 54 priests for a total of 9 days, and was attended by a number of dignitaries including the Chief Minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy, and the erstwhile head of the Travancore family. .

Swami Isa performs various yagas and yajnas at important times, including the Chathurveda Yajna in 2015, and upcoming Mahashivaratri 2016, as well as the Sri Mahalakshmi Divya Kalasa Yajna during Navarathri 2015.