Voice of Vivekananda
Hailed from Sahebganj in the Santal Parganas. Only child of parents, orphaned in childhood. Brilliant student, graduated with Hons. in Chemistry, securing first position in Calcutta University. First …
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The swami received mantra-diksha from Swami Virajanandaji and joined the Order at Madras Math in 1946. Swami Shankaranandaji gave him sannyasa-diksha in 1956. He served at Mangalore centre from 1951 …
Popularly known as Bhav Maharaj, he received mantra-diksha from Swami Shivanandaji and joined the Order at the Deoghar centre in 1924. His guru gave him sannyasa-diksha in 1929. At different times he …
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Swami Gitananda(1924-2014) Maharaj was born on 17 April 1924 in Arial village of Dhaka district in what is now known as Bangladesh. He was known as Basudev Mukhopadhyaya in his pre-monastic days. The …
Swami Tapasyananda(1904-1991) Maharaj was born in 1904 in an aristocratic family of Ottapalam in Kerala. Known in his pre-monastic days as K. P. Balakrishnan Menon, he came into contact with the …
Swami Yatiswarananda, known as Suresh Chandra Bhattacharya in his pre-monastic life, was born on Wednesday, the 16th January, 1889 in his maternal uncle's house, in a village named Nandanpur …
