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Dayananda Saraswati's creation, the Arya Samaj, condemned practices of several different religions and communities, including such practices as idol worship, animal sacrifice, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriage, meat eating and discrimination against women.
Swami Chinmayananda's approach was characterized by an appeal to the English-educated Indian middle class and Indian diaspora; he gave lectures and published books in English. Swami Chinmayananda also helped found the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), an Indian right-wing Hindu organization that is considered a member of the Sangh Parivar.
There, he discovered his guru, Sivananda Saraswati, founder of the Divine Life Society, who ordained him into the sannyasa in 1949 and gave him the name Swami Satchidananda Saraswati. [5] The name Satcitananda (Sanskrit: Saccidānanda) is a compound of three Sanskrit words, sat, cit and ānanda, meaning essence, consciousness and bliss ...
Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati (1880-1975) is an exponents of traditional Advaita Vedanta in modern times. Born as Sri Yellambalase Subbarao, he worked as a school teacher in the Indian state of Karnataka. [1] He gave lectures and wrote articles on the Vedanta in English, Kannada and Sanskrit. [1]
Swami Dayananda Saraswati (15 August 1930 – 23 September 2015) was a renunciate monk of the Hindu Saraswati order of sannyasa. He was also known as Pujya Swamiji and was a traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta . [ 1 ]
Swami Sivananda Saraswati Satyananda Saraswati (25 December 1923 – 5 December 2009), was a Sanyasi , yoga teacher and guru in both his native India and the West. He was a student of Sivananda Saraswati , the founder of the Divine Life Society , and founded the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964. [ 1 ]
c. 1925 Durga Kund (pond) adjacent to the Durga Mandir, where Swami Bhaskarananda's samadhi shrine lies, Varanasi. Swamiji's pre-monastic name was Matiram Misra. Born into a Brahmin family in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, [3] was invested with the sacred thread at the age of eight and was married at the age of twelve.
Swami Karpatri, Shantanand Saraswati, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Swaroopanand Saraswati Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Brahmānanda Sarasvatī) (21 December 1871 [ 1 ] – 20 May 1953), also known as Guru Dev (meaning "divine teacher"), was the Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math monastery in India.