Swami Swahananda

Swami Swahananda in 2008

Swami Swahananda, founder and head of the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington DC—and also head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, Hollywood, and Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely—is a very senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Born in 1921 in Habiganj in what is now Bangladesh, he received initiation from Swami Vijnanananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He joined the Order in 1947 and was ordained a sannyasin in 1956. He came to the United States in 1968, and has been head of the Hollywood center since 1976.

Sunday Lecture

May 20 at 11 am
Swami Atmajnanananda:
Sri Ramakrishna and Vishnu Yoga
Vivekananda Chair

India gives $1.5 million to the University of Chicago to establish a “Vivekananda Chair.”
Swami Vivekananda in the Wall Street Journal

Swamiji is making his way into the American newspapers. See the Wall Street Journal.
Swami Vivekananda in the New York Times

An interesting piece in the NYT on Swamiji.
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Swami Swahananda

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Swami Vivekananda in the Wall Street Journal

Swami Vivekananda in the New York Times

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