Disciple of Swami Virajananda. Joined the Order at Madras Math (1944) and ordained into sannyasa by Swami Shankarananda (1954). Editor of Vedanta Kesari for some time. Assistant to Swami …
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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.10.1
यदा वै पुरुषोऽस्माल्लोकात्प्रैति स वायुमागच्छति; तस्मै स तत्र विजिहीते यथा रथचक्रस्य खं, तेन स ऊर्ध्व आक्रमते; स आदित्यमागच्छति, तस्मै स तत्र विजिहीते यथालम्बरस्य खम्, तेन स ऊर्ध्व आक्रमते; स …
‘Please keep quiet now. I see the Master and the Mother.’ – Akshay Kumar Sen
Akshay Kumar Sen has been initiated by Sri Ramakrishna. He has obtained the gracious blessings from Mother and Swamiji. The Holy Mother had told Akshay, ‘There will be a little suffering towards the …
“The Very Contact of Money is Bad.”
Temptation is the test of renunciation. All great teachers of the world have had to face this trial. Sri Ramakrishna was no exception. Hriday once conspired secretly with Lakshminarayan Marwari to get …
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Public Festival of Sri Ramakrishna
Shivananda returned to Belur Math on Sri Ramakrishna’s birthday. On that auspicious day he initiated some monastics into sannyasa and brahmacharya. The public festival of the Master, which was usually …
Vision of Goddess Mother Triveni
During his early days in Allahabad, Vijnanananda would go for a daily bath before sunrise in the Triveni (literally, three braids), the confluence of three holy rivers. One day after his bath, while …