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Painting of Rama

The Ramayana (The Journey of Rama). Rama is the husband of Sita, who is also considered the Avatara of Lakshmi
and the embodiment of perfect womanhood.

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Swami Vivekananda, September, 1893, Chicago

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and was the founder of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He is considered by many as an icon for his fearless courage, his positive exhortations to the youth, his broad outlook to social problems, and countless lectures and discourses on Vedanta
philosophy.

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Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghosh) in 1916

avatar
, an incarnation of the supreme being.

Sri Aurobindo spent his life—through his vast writings and through his own development—working for the

freedom of India, the path to the further evolution of life on earth, and to bring down what he called the Supramental Truth Consciousness Force to enable such progress. Aurobindo rejected the materialistic tendencies of both Darwinism and Samkhya
, and proposed an evolution of spirit rather than matter.

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Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology to India and specifically to the West
.

He took

sannyasa vows in 1959 from his Godbrother Sri Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Maharaja at Mathura, following which he singlehandedly published the first three volumes of his thirty volume translation of the 18,000 verse Bhagavata Purana and the commentary on it. He then left India
to fulfill his master's spiritual mission. In his possession were a suitcase, an umbrella, a supply of dry cereal, about seven dollars worth of Indian currency, and several boxes of books.

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Gandhi in 1940s

Hindi: महात्मा, məhatma ; from Sanskrit, mahātmā
: Great Soul) and is fondly called Bapu (in Gujarati, Father).

Gandhi first employed his ideas of civil disobedience in the Indian struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, Gandhi helped lead poor farmers and laborers to protest oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination.

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Kali yuga
to understand the divine knowledge of the Veda.

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Adi Shankara

Upadesasahasri
, his most important original philosophical work. His works elaborate on ideas found in the Upanishads. He also explained the key difference between Hinduism and Buddhism, stating that Hinduism asserts "Atman (Soul, Self) exists", while Buddhism asserts that there is "no Soul, no Self".

Adi Shankara died in the thirty third year of his life, and reliable information on his actual life is scanty. Various texts state that Shankara travelled extensively across the Indian subcontinent to propagate his philosophy through discourses and debates with other thinkers of competing Indian philosophies. He established the importance of monastic life as sanctioned in the Upanishads and Brahma Sutra, in a time when the Mīmāṃsā school established ritualism and ridiculed monasticism. He is reputed to have founded four mathas ("monasteries"), which helped in the historical development, revival and the spread of Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism. He is also credited with initiating the Kumbh Mela – one of the world's largest periodic religious pilgrimages.

Adi Shankara is believed to be the organiser of the

Dashanami monastic order and the founder of the Shanmata
tradition of worship. He is also known as Adi Shankaracharya.

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Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Hindu monastery in Kauai, Hawaii and founded the magazine Hinduism Today. The author of many books on Hinduism and metaphysics, Subramuniyaswami was one of the most prominent faces of Hinduism during the last two decades of the 20th century. He was one of Shaivism's most orthodox and revered Gurus, the founder and leader of the Saiva Siddhanta Church, world's first Hindu church. Born with the name Robert Hansen in California in 1927, as a young man of 20, in 1947, he journeyed to India and Sri Lanka in search of his guru. Two years later was initiated into sannyasa by the renowned siddha yogi and worshiper of Shiva, Jnanaguru Yogaswami of Sri Lanka
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Portrait of Sriman Madhvacharya

Nondualism,or Vishishtadvaita form some core Indian beliefs on the nature of reality
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Ramakrishna

Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. His teachings emphasized God-realization as the highest goal of life, love and devotion for God, the oneness[disambiguation needed] of existence, and the harmony of religions
.

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;;Jagadguru Rāmabhadrāchārya delivering a sermon on October 25, 2009

Hindu religious leader based in Chitrakuta, Uttar Pradesh, India
. He is one of the four incumbent Jagadguru Rāmānandācāryas (leaders of the Ramananda monastic order), and has held this title since 1988.

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