Swami brahmananda saraswati biography sample

Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was born in Kulim, Malaysia. He underwent his childhood around a plantation background and received his early childhood education there. Throughout this phase of life the best of conduct and adherence to religious principles was the ultimate by his family. However at this tender age, though was not directly expose to religious scriptures or philosophical studies but thirst for these area was very great.

The search for educational advancement and ambition took Swami to Penang where he completed his secondary and college education. His direct contact with the public came with his vocation as an English teacher. He was posted to various rural areas and it was at this phase of time, he made in depth studies of the Hindu religion, scriptures and philosophies His entire life to and pivoted devotion and worship. Everywhere He went, work or lived He was a role model with exceptional service orientations in the name of God -conducting pooja, cordinating religious activities, organizing religious festivals and celebrations and throughout portraying qualities which has become reality today – A Swamiji.

Ten years was enough has a teacher and thirst within Him was unanswered. At this stage everyone interacting with Him knew and noticed the profundity and unparalleled authoritative wisdom and mastery on many scriptures. He said that it was at this transitional time frame that He met Swami Brahma Shree Sivananda. The much foreseen finally surfaced – He resigned as a teacher, denounced His attachment and announced His destiny which was the aim within Him and with the blessings and guidance of His Guru, there after his burning thirst for self knowledge drove him to Chinmaya mission at Bombay ,India where he underwent a vigorous study of traditional hindu scriptures called Vedas. He left Malaysia to take up scriptural studies in ‘Vedanta’ under the esteem patronage of His Holiness Swam

This book has been on my long shelf of biographical works for sometime. After devouring others, I thought of poring over this; hence, I lacked the immediacy to plunge into this, at least for now. On the morning of 10 April 2021, I felt impelled to pick the book, which was somberly wedged between a spiritual giant and a science genius. Riffling through the first few pages of the book, my eyes suddenly alighted upon the date of Swami Brahmananda's death, which was 10.4.1922. On the 99th-year of his death anniversary, Providence took me to the book.

I did not read it until perhaps a month later.

Swami Brahmananda, whose original name was Rakhal Chandra Ghosh, was an aristocrat. From a very young age, he was devoted to God. At the age of 12 he was brought to Kolkata for his studies. He received reasonable educational; got involved in the activities of Brahmo Samaj, and at the age of 18, he got married. He spent considerable number of years with his spiritual master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

The book is a compilation of disciples' and aspirants' reminiscences of Swami Brahmananda, who was, according to his Guru, a playmate of Sri Krishna, the author of the Bhagavad Gita. I was, thus, quite motivated to find out more about him from the mouths of the people who moved closely with him.

In any biographies, especially those that have been published by the people who have a reason to protect the interest and reputation of the protagonists, one is bound to encounter only highly sanitised information that does not portray the characters in any way that is prejudicial to their memory. The same might have been done in this work, too, of which I have no reasonable suspicion, but it however contains certain private details of Swami Brahmananda that have somehow escaped the editor's blue-pencilling. That is an incidental reward to the reader who wants to know the true Swami Brahamananda as he was.

Notwithstanding the faux pas, one cannot help but be enamored of the pr