Swami Advaitananda ( 1828-1909 )
======================================================================= Saturday, 15 Jul 2023 05>30. Belur Math: Sri Ramakrishna Mission ======================================================================== Video: Swami Advaitananda Jayanti Lecture by Revered Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj ========================================================================= Early Life : Swami Advaitananda in his pre-monastic days was known as Gopal Chandra Ghosh and was born in 1828 at Rajpur (Jagaddal) in 24- Parganas, nearly twenty-five miles north of Calcutta. He was the oldest of the monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, being older than even the Master by a few years. Besides, as there were two Gopals, Sri Ramakrishna would address Swami Advaitananda as ‘aged Gopal’ while others would call him Gopalda or Gopal the elder brother. His father was Govardhan Ghosh, and he was born in a village called Jagaddal in 24 Parganas, but usually, he lived in Sinthi near Calcutta. Gopal was an employee