Abhedananda, Svami 1866-1939

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ABHEDANANDA, Svami 1866-1939

PERSONAL:

Born Kali Prasad Chandra, January 2, 1866, in Calcutta, India; died September 8, 1939, in Calcutta, India; son of Rasiklal (a teacher of English) and Nayantara (Devi) Chandra; name changed, 1886. Education: Studied with Sri Ramakrishna; studied Buddhism in Tibet.

CAREER:

Initiated into Sannyasa order, 1886; joined monastery in Barangore, India, 1886; Vedanta Society, New York, NY, affiliate, 1894-96, preacher in London, England, 1896-97, and United States, 1897-c. 1910; independent Hindu preacher, c. 1910-21; member of Vedanta Society in Belur, India, 1921-c.1923. Founder of religious centers in Calcutta and Darjeeling, India, after 1923; lecturer in London, England, including appearance at Theosophical Society, 1896, and at U.S. institutions, including Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

WRITINGS:

Vedanta Philosophy: Three Lectures by Svami Abhedananda on Reincarnation, Vedanta Society (New York, NY), 1899.

Vedanta Philosophy: Three Lectures by Svami Abhedananda on Spiritual Unfoldment …, Vedanta Society (New York, NY), 1901.

Vedanta Philosophy: Three Lectures by Svami Abhedananda on Philosophy of Work, Vedanta Society (New York, NY), 1902.

Vedanta Philosophy: Self-Knowledge, 1905, Kessinger Publishing Company (Whitefish, MT), 1998.

India and Her People: A Study in the Social, Political, Educational, and Religious Conditions of India (lectures), Vedanta Society (New York, NY), 1906, 6th edition, 1945, reprinted, Kessinger Publishing Company (Whitefish, MT), 1998.(Editor) The Gospel of Ramakrishna, Vedanta Society (New York, NY), 1907.

Vedanta Philosophy: Five Lectures on Reincarnation (1908), Kessinger Publishing Company (Whitefish, MT), 1998.

Vedanta Philosophy; or, How to Be a Yogi (1908), Kessinger Publishing Company (Whitefish, MT), 2003.

Human Affection and Divine Love, 1911.

Paribrajaka Svami Abhedananda: Ka'smira, Amaranatha, o Tibhata bhramana (includes translation of The Life of Saint Issa: The Best of the Sons of Men by Nicolas Notovitch), [Calcutta, India], 1929, translation by Ansupati Dasgupta and Kunja Bihari Kundu published as Journey into Kashmir and Tibet, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1987.

The Path of Realization, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1939.

Lectures on Philosophy and Religion, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1943.

How to Be a Yogi, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1943.

Life beyond Death, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1944, Vedanta Press and Bookshop (Hollywood, CA), 1986.

The Ideal of Education, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1945.

Our Relation to the Absolute: A Study in True Psychology by Svami Abhedananda (lectures), Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1946, 3rd edition published as True Psychology, 1965.

Science of Psychic Phenomena, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1946.

Spiritual Unfoldment, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 11th edition, 1946.

Attitude of Vedanta toward Religion, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1947.

Vivekananda and His Work, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 3rd edition, 1950.

Reincarnation, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 6th edition, 1951, Kessinger Publishing Company (Whitefish, MT), 2003.

The Mystery of Death: A Study in the Philosophy and Religion of the Katha Upanishad, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1953, Vedanta Press and Bookshop (Hollywood, CA), 1987.

Spiritual Teachings of Svami Abhedananda, translated by P. Seshadri Aiyer, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1962.

Complete Works, ten volumes, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1967.

Abhedananda in India in 1906, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1968.

Bhagavad Gita: The Divine Message, two volumes, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 1969.

The Doctrine of Karma: A Study in Philosophy and Practice of Work, Vedanta Press and Bookshop (Hollywood, CA), 1975.

The Great Saviours of the World, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 4th edition, 1977, also published as Great Saviors of the World, Vedanta Society (New York, NY).

Kathaprasange Svami Abhedananda: Svami Pralnanananda bhumika sambalita; Svami Some'svarananda sankalita, Nababharata Pabali'sarsa (Calcutta, India), 1982.

Songs Divine: A Bouquet of Hymns to Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, and Some Vedic Chants with English Translations (hymns in Sanskrit and English; originally published as Stotraratnakara), translated by P. Seshadri Aiyer, preface by Amiya Chakravarty, Ramakrishna Vedanta Math (Calcutta, India), 2nd edition, 1983.

Ramakrishna Kathamrita and Ramakrishna: Memoirs of Ramakrishna, Vedanta Press & Bookshop (Hollywood, CA), 1988.

Author of The Complete Works of Swami Abheedananda, Sri Ramakrishna Math (Mylapore, Madras, India), beginning 1924. Author of tracts and pamphlets. Contributor to periodicals, including Vedanta and the West.