Swami Yatiswarananda
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Swami Yatiswarananda | |
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Calcutta, India | |
Religion | Hinduism |
Notable work(s) | Meditation and Spiritual life, The Eternal Companion, Adventures in Spiritual Life, Essentials of Spiritual Life, How to Seek God, Universal Prayers. |
Philosophy | Advaita Vedanta |
Religious career | |
Guru | Swami Brahmananda |
Swami Yatiswarananda (16 January 1889 Nadanpur Village,
Brief Biography
Yatiswarananda was born as Suresh Chandra Bhattacharya in erstwhile Bengal. He joined the Ramakrishna Order in Belur Math and got initiation from Swami Brahmananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna (also referred to as the "spiritual son" of Ramakrishna) the first president of the Ramakrishna Order. During his early days as an itinerant monk, he performed austerities on the banks of the rivers Kaveri and Tamraparni and on the seashore at Tiruchendur in Tamil Nadu.[2]
He went to preach Vedanta in Europe and stayed in
Early life
Swami Yatiswarananda was born on 16 January 1889 in Nandanpur, district Pabna of East Bengal. His pre monastic life was Suresh Chandra Bhattacharya. He had his early education in Jalpaigudi and Bogra and he passed entrance examination from a school in Rangpur in Bangladesh. He studied in Rajshahi and cooch Behar colleges and then from Bangabasi college in Kolkata. He did his Bachelor of Arts (graduation) from Presidency College in Kolkata. He secured a gold medal for being the first in
Monastic life
Between 1921 and 1924 he was the editor of Prabuddha Bharata, in Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati. In 1924, he became the president of Ramakrishna Math, Bombay and continued till 1926. He remained the president of Sri Ramakrishna Math at Mylapore, Madras, between 1926 and 1933. In 1928, he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of Ramakrishna Math and the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. In 1933 his first book, Universal Prayers, was published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras. In 1933 at the invitation of the devotees he was deputed to Wiesbaden in the Rhineland (Germany) for preaching
List of Books authored by Swami Yatiswarananda
- Meditation and Spiritual Life, pages 705, published by Advaita Ashrama.
A posthumous publication based on the class notes of his lectures, the book is divided as follows: Part One - The Spiritual Ideal, Part Two - Spiritual Practice - i) Preparation ii) Techniques, Part Three - Spiritual Experience, Part Four - Spiritual Tidbits. The book has been translated into Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi. It was first published in 1979 from Bangalore ashrama.
- Universal Prayers, selected and translated verses from Sanskrit religious literature, page 261, first published in Nov 1933, from Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras.
- The Divine Life - This has 14 chapters like Self and the Body, The Ways of Spiritual and the Worldly, Moral Culture, the Path of Selfless Activity, the Way of the Ideal Man etc., containing Sanskrit verses from Gita, Puranas, Upanishads and other texts with English translations, first published in October 1935.
- Adventures in Religious Life, page 294
- Essentials of Spiritual Life, which is the introduction to the Divine Life made into a separate booklet
- How to seek God - based on his class notes collected by various devotees and later published in Vedanta Kesari.[5]
Notes
- ^ Sraddhananda, Swami (1982). The Story of an Epoch: Swami Virajananda and His Times. Sri Ramakrishna Math. p. 279.
- ^ Bhajanananda, Swami. "Reminiscences of Swami Yatiswaranandaji Maharaj". Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai. Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ISBN 978-81-7883-580-8.
- ISBN 978-81-7883-580-8.
- ISBN 978-81-7883-580-8.
Related links
- Meditation and Spiritual Life - Swami Yatiswarananda ISBN 81-7907-015-8
- Universal Prayers - Swami Yatishwarananda ISBN 81-7120-511-9
- Adventures in Religious Life - Swami Yatiswarananda ISBN 81-7120-473-2
- The Divine Life, Its Practice and Realisation - Swami Yatiswarananda
- Reflections on Hinduism - Swami Yatiswarananda
- Overcoming Obstacles in Spiritual Life - Swami Yatiswarananda
- How to become Spiritually awakened - Swami Yatiswarananda
- Eternal Companion : life and teachings of Swami Brahmananda - Swami Prabhavananda & Swami Yatiswarananda
- Six Lighted Windows - Swami Yogeshananda ISBN 0-87481-410-3