Swami Nikhilananda

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Swami Nikhilananda
Personal
Born
Dinesh Chandra Das Gupta

1895
Durgapur Village,
British India
( Now in Bangladesh)
DiedJuly 21, 1973
Wellesley Island, New York
ReligionHinduism
Religious career
GuruSarada Devi

Swami Nikhilananda (1895–1973), born Dinesh Chandra Das Gupta

Sri Sarada Devi. In 1933, he founded the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, a branch of Ramakrishna Mission, and remained its head until his death in 1973. An accomplished writer and thinker, Nikhilananda's greatest contribution was the translation of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita from Bengali into English, published under the title The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942).[2]

Biography

Swami Nikhilananda was born in 1895 in Durgapur village, Sylhet district, in present-day Bangladesh (British India), and had his education in the University of Calcutta. As a graduate, he chose the profession of journalism. He then joined the

Indian freedom movement and was incarcerated for a period in a British prison camp.[3]

As a boy, through his pious parents, he became acquainted with the teachings of

Kathamrita among others.[3]

After coming into their influence, he abandoned his role as a freedom fighter and renounced the world to join the

xerographic process.[5] Philosopher Lex Hixon
was Nikhilananda's disciple.

Literary works

His most important works include translations of The

Kathamrita, published under the title of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Many of the works of Swami Nikhilananda have already been translated into various European and Indian languages and are recognised as authoritative texts on the interpretations of the teachings of Vedanta.[3]

In 1944,

scholars convened by Philip Zaleski and HarperCollins publishers,[9][10]

Bibliography

Translations

Notes

  1. ^ "Swami Nikhilananda". Prabuddha Bharata. 1973.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-941532-57-7
    .
  3. ^
    JSTOR 3129924
    .
  4. ^ The Slate
  5. ISBN 0-585-04584-4
    .
  6. ^ "The Gita". TIME Magazine. 3 July 1944. Archived from the original on 14 December 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Prophet of All Gods". TIME Magazine. 2 November 1942. Archived from the original on 21 November 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2008.
  8. ^ "Swami Nikhilananda". Retrieved 18 October 2008.
  9. ^ "100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century". Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  10. ^ Zaleski, Philip (2000). The Best Spiritual Writing 2000. San Francisco:
    ISBN 978-0-06-251670-1
    .

External links
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