Voice of Vivekananda
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 …
Swami Yuktatmananda joined the monastic Order of Sri Ramakrishna in Bangalore, India, in 1978 and was ordained a monk in 1988. For more than a decade, he served at the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya in …
Born in Karnataka State, South India, on October 21, 1929, he became a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India in his early twenties. Attracted by the universal teachings of Vedanta which affirms that …
