Sri Narayan Guru: An Appreciation

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In continuation of Bhavan's Eternal Values Booklets Series 1 to 20 which have received a warm welcome by the discerning reading public, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has pleasure in bringing out its Eternal Values Booklets Series 21, by Poojya Swami Ranganathananda under the title, Sri Narayana Guru: An Appreciation. It is our hope that this booklet will also receive the same enthusiastic response from the readers.

Sri Narayana Guru: An Appreciation contains the speech delivered by Swami on the occasion of Sri Narayana Guru Birthday Celebrations, Rangoon, Burma, 1940.

As Swamihi Says, in the great work of reform and consolidation in the wider fields of India, the ideals and methods of Sri Narayan Guru are bound to be an unfailing source of inspiration and guidance. In all that he was and in all that he did, Sri Narayana Guru stands as the supreme symbol of hope and redemption to the depressed classes of India.

About the Author

Born in village of Trikkur, Kerala State, on December 15, 1908, Swami Ranganthananda 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 warden of student's hostel, he worked as Secretary and librarian at the Ramakrishna 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 Cultural Studies, and Editor of its monthly journal.

From 1973 to 1993 he was President of Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad and from 1994-1998 he was Vice President of Worldwide Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Now he is its President, and stays at Belur Math.

H has undertaken extensive lecture tours form 1946 to 1972 covering 50 countries. Form 1973 to 1986 he visited annually Australia, USA, Holland and Germany.

In 1986 he was awarded the first Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.