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wife's death he once more sought, and was granted, permission from Brahmananda Saraswati to become a monk. Shantananda was the first Shankaracharya to have lived as a householder for part of his life. This break in tradition has continued to cause controversy and dissent among some disciples of Brahmananda.
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Mason (1994) p. 57 Note: "On Tuesday, 30 May 1961, eight years to the day after his master's death, the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Swami Shantanand Saraswati graced the teacher training course with his presence and was received with all due ceremony. Arriving at the site where the new Academy was
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Shantananda Saraswati taught that people should develop their spiritual life while fully engaged in worldly responsibilities, encouraging them to act to uplift their families, professions, communities, and to manifest the harmony, beauty, and efficiency of their spiritual practices in their everyday
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Meanwhile, organizations which had been concerned with reviving the Jyotir Math in the 1930s reconvened and proposed Swami Krishnabodha Asrama as Shankaracharya despite Shantanand's claim and occupation of the Jyotir Math Shankaracharya-ship. However, Krishnabodha died in 1973, and he nominated his
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Shantananda Saraswati became a devotee of Brahmananda Saraswati at an early age. He wanted to become a monk but Brahmananda Saraswati instructed him to marry. Due to this Shantanand lived the life of a householder, worked as a bookbinder, and supported a wife and child for fourteen years. Upon his
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naming his disciple, Swami Shantanand Saraswati, as his successor. Shantanand assumed the Shankarcharya-ship but his authority was later disputed by several of Brahmananda's disciples and followers who did not feel (due at least in part to Shantananda's lack of lifelong celibacy) that Shantanand
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Finally, in 1980, Shantananda relinquished the Shankarcharya position to Dandi Swami Vishnudevananda, who held the position until his death in 1989. Shantanand, in his capacity as senior Shankaracharya, then appointed Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati to the role. Shantananda himself died in 1997.
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in Holland Park, London, from 1967 to his death. For more than thirty years he passed on his teaching to the West. Before he died he wrote a letter to students in the West saying: "You have all that is needed to carry on, you need only to put what has been given into practice".
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being built, he addressed the Maharishi and the gathered meditators . . . . He commended the practice of the Maharishi’s meditation, describing it as a 'master key to the knowledge of Vedanta' and added, 'There are other keys, but a master key is enough to open all the locks.’
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Sri Shantananda Saraswati (perhaps reflecting his experience as a husband and then a father) referred to love as "the natural in-between", a state of being that can always be availed because it lies within us all.
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Shantananda Saraswati received Western visitors from a number of organisations thus making his teaching available to many around the world. In 1960 Dr Francis Roles (the named successor of
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also visited Shantananda Saraswati in India and became a follower. From this point on the teachings of both organisations became predominantly based on
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In 1953, five months before his death, Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, made a hand-written
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The Man Who Wanted to Meet God: Myths and Stories That Explain the Inexplicable by His Holiness Shantanand Saraswati
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Sri Shantananda Saraswati's teachings continue to be widely studied in the West due to the guidance he provided
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and "often appeared with him in public". In 1961 he appeared at one of the Maharishi's training courses in
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and addressed the trainees, describing the meditation method as "the master key to the knowledge of
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During his tenure, Shantanand was "supportive" of another Brahamananda disciple
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The book of enlightened masters : western teachers in eastern traditions
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met the requirements described in the Mahanusasana texts.
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monastery from 1953 to 1980; he was a direct disciple of
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Index

Shantananda Saraswati

Shankaracharya
Jyotir Math
Basti district
Hinduism
Advaita Vedanta
Brahmananda Saraswati
Brahmananda Saraswati
Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati
Jyotir Math
Shankaracharya
Jyotir Math
Brahmananda Saraswati
will
P. D. Ouspensky
The Study Society
Leon MacLaren
School of Economic Science
Advaita Vedanta
School of Meditation
Swaroopananda Saraswati
ashram
the Study Society
School of Economic Science
Rupert Spira
transcendental meditation
Hugh Jackman
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Rishikesh

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