Swami ranganathananda biography

The Mission found it difficult to continue its activities at Karachi after the partition and so it had been closed. The Swami served as the Secretary at the Delhi Centre, from to His classes on scriptures at Karachi and later at Delhi were immensely popular and were attended by many distinguished personalities. In , he became the head of the Hyderabad Centre where he founded the Vivekananda Vani School of Languages, a temple and a library.

He used to deliver spiritual discourses regularly. Swami Ranganathananda was chosen by the Government of India for the Padma-Vibhushan Award in , but being wholly dedicated to the cause of the Order, he declined the honour as it was conferred on him in his individual capacity and not for the Order. Ranganathananda conducted moral and religious classes for the prisoners in the Bangalore and Mysore jails.

In Delhi, Swami Ranganathananda organised social services at hospitals and worked for the relief of leprosy patients. Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh described Swami Ranganathananda and Swami Vivekananda as "leaders with a modern mind and scientific temper. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny.

It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments Home Contact Privacy. Biography Ranganathananda was born in in a village called Trikkur near Trichur, in Kerala. Source s : Wikipedia Biography Creative Commons. Simpson eds.

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Swami ranganathananda biography

Science and Religion. In he was elected as the president of the mission. Swami Ranganathananda was chosen by the Indian government for Padma Vibhushan award in He declined the Padma Vibhushan as it was conferred on him in his individual capacity and not for the Mission. Since his residence in Bangalore in the s, Swami Ranganathananda has been a popular teacher and lecturer on Indian spiritual culture.

By the mids he was known within India as an authority on practical Vedanta. He also lectured in Iran and in the Soviet Union. Ranganathananda is noted for this contributions that bridges science and Vedantic spirituality. Swami Ranganathananda was regarded a great scholar and teacher. He has authored over 50 books. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has published around twenty-nine of these books.