Swami Prabhavananda
Swami Prabhavananda | |
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Personal | |
Born | Surmanagar Village, Bankura district,
Spiritual Heritage of India | 26 December 1893
Occupation | Monk, writer, and teacher |
Founder of | [[ | |Vedanta Society of Southern California]]
Religious career | |
Guru | Swami Brahmananda |
Disciples |
Swami Prabhavananda (December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976) was an Indian
Biography
Born in
In 1923, he was sent to the United States of America. Initially, he worked as an assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of San Francisco. After two years, he established the Vedanta Society of Portland. In December 1929, he moved to Los Angeles, where he founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California in 1930.[4]
Under his administration, the Vedanta Society of Southern California grew over the years to become the largest Vedanta Society in the West,
Prabhavananda was a scholar who wrote a number of books on Vedanta and Indian religious scriptures and commentary. He was assisted on several of the projects by Christopher Isherwood and Frederick Manchester. His comprehensive knowledge of philosophy and religion attracted such disciples as Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard.[8][9]
Prabhavananda died on the bicentennial of America's independence, July 4, 1976, and on the 74th anniversary of the death, or mahasamadhi, of Swami Vivekananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna Order in India and many of the Vedanta centers in America and Europe.[2]
Influence
Prabhavananda's book The Spiritual Heritage of India was reviewed in the academic journal Philosophy. The review stated that "Swami Prabhavananda has written a charming and authoritative book on the spiritual heritage of India, by which he means that heritage in consonance with the Vedic tradition and its culmination in Vedanta" (p. 376).[10] The reviewer stated that "throughout the book breathes an air of relaxed simplicity and conviction.... I was particularly refreshed by the absence of attacks on science, materialism, naturalism, and other such means to spiritual fulfilment" (pp. 376–377).[10]
Prabhavananda and Isherwood's translation of the
Written works
Original works
- Dynamic Religion (1927)
- Wisdom of God (Srimad Bhagavatam) (1943)
- The Spiritual Heritage of India (1963).
- Editions: Doubleday, 1962 (original); Anchor, 1964; Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1977, ISBN 81-7755-746-7
- Editions: Doubleday, 1962 (original); Anchor, 1964; Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1977,
- Vedic Religion and Philosophy
- The Eternal Companion (Life and teachings of Swami Brahmananda)
- The Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta
- Religion in Practice
- Yoga and Mysticism
Translations
- The Wisdom of God (ISBN 81-7823-315-0
- Shankara's Crest-jewel of discrimination (ISBN 0-87481-038-8
- The Upanishads - with Frederick Manchester, ISBN 0-451-52848-4
- ISBN 0-451-52844-1
- How to know God, the Yoga aphorisms of ISBN 0-87481-041-8
- Memories of a Loving Soul: Swami Premananda, Teachings and Reminiscences
- Narada's Way of Divine Love (Narada Bhakti Sutras)
Audio and video works
- What is Religion? - CD[12][13]
- Eight Limbs of Yoga - DVD [13]
- Blessed Are the Pure In Heart and Be Still - DVD[14]
See also
- Collection of videos of Prabhavananda lectures
- Vedanta Society
- Bhagavad Gita – The Song of God
- Yoga in America
- Vedanta Society Of Southern California, Ramakrishna Monastery
- Ramakrishna Order
- Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple
References
- ISBN 0-253-33098-X.
- ^ a b About Prabhavananda Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-8245-1987-6.
- ISBN 0-253-33098-X.
- ISBN 0-8245-1987-6.
- ^ List of VSSC centers Archived 2011-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-8245-1987-6.
- ISBN 0-253-33098-X.
- OCLC 456171421.
- ^ ISSN 0031-8191 DOI S0031819100058411
- ^ a b Anonymous (February 12, 1945). "Books: Universal cult [review of Prabhavananda and Isherwood's Bhagavad Gita translation]". Time. Vol. 45, no. 7. pp. 94, 96, 98, 100.
- ^ Review on Allmusic.com
- ^ a b Released through mondayMEDIA on the GemsTone Label
- ^ Two lectures released through mondayMEDIA on the GemsTone Label