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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. [2] [3] Born into a Saryupareen Brahmin family, he left home at the age of nine in search of a spiritual master. At age ...
Baba Jai Gurudev ji Maharaj was a spiritual teacher and the founder of the religious/spiritual organization 'Jai Gurudev Dharma Pracharak Sanshtha' located in Mathura district of Uttar pradesh state of India. He preached about meditation for attaining spiritual enlightenment and also the associated religious values.
Nigamananda was born into a Bengali Brahmin family in the hamlet of Kutabpur in Nadia district (at present, Meherpur district, Bangladesh). He was a sannyasi from Adi Shankar's dashanami sampradaya.
The Doordarshi Party (Hindi: दूरदर्शी; also written as Door Darshi Party) was a political party in India.It was founded in Ahmedabad on 24 March 1980 by religious leader Baba Jai Gurudev on a platform of social reform and spiritual growth.
Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a Hindu Bengali Kayastha family. [16] He was the fourth of the eight children, and second of the four sons, of Bhagabati Charan Ghosh, the vice president of Bengal-Nagpur Railway , and Gyanprabha Devi.
Written in the Bengali language, it runs to more than 15,000 verses and “is regarded as the most authoritative work on Śrī Caitanya”, a work of “rare merit”, with “no parallel in the whole of Bengali literature”. [244] Scholar of religion Hugh Urban calls it “one of the greatest works in all of Indian vernacular literature”. [245]
[7] [8] He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer") [1] [9] and Yogi as an adult. [10] [11] After earning a degree in physics at Allahabad University in 1942, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became an assistant and disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (also known as Guru Dev), the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of the Jyotir Math in the ...
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Bengali: মহাপ্রভু শ্রীচৈতন্য দেব; Sanskrit: चैतन्य महाप्रभु, romanized: Caitanya Mahāprabhu), born Vishvambhara Mishra (IAST: Viśvambhara Miśra [2]) (18 February 1486 – 14 June 1534 [3]), was an Indian Hindu saint from Bengal and the founder of ...