The Message of Prophet Muhammad (Bhavan's Eternal Values Booklets Series: Fifteen)

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Born in the village of Trikkur, Kerala State, on December 15, 1908, Swami Ranganathananda joined the Ramakrishna Order, the international spiritual and cultural movement founded by Swami Vivekananda, at its branch in Mysore in 1926. He was formally initiated into Sannyasa in 1933 by Swami Shivananda, one of the eminent disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second President of the Order. After spending the first twelve years in the Order's branches in Mysore and Bangalore, the first six years of which as cook, dishwasher and house-keeper and later as warder of students' hostel, he worked as Secretary and librarian at the Ramkrishna Mission branch at Rangoon, from 1939 to 1942, and thereafter as President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Karachi, from 1942 to 1948.

From 1949 to 1962, he worked as the Secretary of the New Delhi branch of the Mission, and from 1962 to 1967, he was the Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of culture, Calcutta, Director of its School of Humanistic and Cultural Studies, and Editor of its monthly journal.

He has undertaken extensive lecture tours from 1946 to 1972 covering 50 countries, including 5 communist ones, and has been visiting annually Australia, U.S.A., Holland, West Germany, Berlin -East and West - During the last several years.

He has a versatile and facile pen, and has to his credit a number of publication, chief amongst which are: The Message of Upanisads: A Pilgrim Looks at the World, Vols. I and II; Four Volumes of Eternal Values for a Changing Society - Vol. I: Philosophy and Spirituality, Vol2: Great Spiritual Teachers, Vol3: Education for Human Excellence and Vol.4: Democracy for Total Human Fulfillment; and Science and Spirituality (Bhavan's Publication); Our Cultural Heritage and its Modern Orientation, Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture: 1986; Woment in the Mdoern Age; Social Responsibilities of Public Administrators; The Science of Human Energy Rsources; Science and Religion; Vedanta and the Future of Mankind; Divine Grace His Acceptance Speech when he was awarded the first Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration on 31st October 1986; seven L. P. Records expounding, verse by verse, the second and third chapters of the Gita; six pre-recorded cassettes expounding the greatest book on Bhakti, the Srimad Bhagavatam; and 12 pre-recorded cassettes expounding the Vedanta treatise: Vivekacudamani, by Sankaracarya.