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======================================================================= 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...

  ========================================================================= Thursday, 22 Jun, 2023. 05:30. ====================================================================== Personal : Born - Natarajan Gopala Iyer, 15 August 1930, Manjakkudi, Tamil Nadu, India Died 23 September 2015 (aged 85), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India Religion Hinduism Nationality Indian Founder of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam AIM - For Seva Swami Dayananda Educational Trust Philosophy Advaita Vedanta ========================================================================= Introduction : Swami Dayananda Saraswati (15 August 1930 – 23 September 2015) was a renunciate of the Hindu order of sannyasa, a renowned traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta, and founder of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam and AIM For Seva. ======================================================================== Biography : In July 1982, Swami Dayananda decided to leave Chinmaya Mission. He felt a strong incompatibility between his growi...

======================================================================== Thursday, 18 May, 2023. 05:30. ========================================================================= Beloved Immortal Atman, Beloved seekers and aspirants! Yesterday we werereferring to saints and sages as being of two types. Some who were born likeother human individuals, but who, by their prayer and persistence in spirituallife, went beyond to God-realization. The second category were never born, everfree souls with some mission on earth; eternally free, perfect beings. In the case of the latter category, many are born with their advent announcedbefore their birth and with their birth attended by many supernatural,supranormal signs. Sometimes they gave indications of their special divineorigin, through certain events or actions, even in their young age. There was noquestion on any spiritual struggle in them. Sometimes, if they seemed to dosadhana, it was more as an example to guide others, rather than for an...

======================================================================== Saturday, March 11, 2023. 06:00. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ========================================================================= Personal : Born Abhay Charan De, 1 September 1896, Calcutta, Bengal, India Died 14 November 1977 (aged 81), Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India Resting place Srila Prabhupada's Samadhi Mandir, ISKCON Vrindavan, 27.57196°N 77.67729°E Religion Hinduism Denomination Vaishnavism Sect Gaudiya Vaishnavism Notable work(s) Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is,  Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (translation),  Caitanya Caritāmrta (trans.) Alma mater Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta Monastic name Abhaya Caranāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmī Temple Gaudiya Math, ISKCON Philosophy Bhakti yoga Religious career Period in office 1966–1977 Initiation Diksha, 1933 (by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati) Sannyasa, 1959 (by Bhakti Prajnan Keshava) Post Founder-Acharya of ISKCON Websit...

========================================================================= Saturday, January 28, 2023. 06:00. Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha. ========================================================================= ABOUT SWAMIJI ; Poojya Swamiji is the Founder Saint of Narayanashrama Tapovanam and Centres for Inner Resources Development (CIRD). Swamiji belongs to the Tirtha lineage instituted by Shankaracharya, and received Brahmavidyā initiation from Baba Gangadhara Paramahamsa of Dakshinkhanda (West Bengal). After a period of intense sādhanā he embraced sannyasa at the age of 23. “All of you should know how a village can shape an individual’s life, instituting cultural and spiritual dimensions of this great Nation. The so-called modernists should remember with respect and humility that proper growth of individuality takes place through this kind of cultural allegiance and discipline.” Early Life : Poojya Swamiji was born on 13th May 1933 in an orthodox Brahmin family in Paralikkad village,...