Swami Pranavananda

Acharya Pranavananda, also Yugacharya Srimat Swami Ji Maharaj Pranavananda ( born January 19, 1896 16 Magha 1302, in Bajitpur, Bengal province in the Empire India, today District Dacca, Bangladesh today, † January 8, 1941 in Calcutta) was a Hindu Swami and founder of the Hindu organization Bharat Sevashram Sangha.

Life

Pranavananda was already on in the village school by its contemplative nature and his efforts to help others. In 1913 he went to Gorakhpur in today's Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where he would soon admitted to the spirituality of Hinduism. In the following years he founded a mission, which both gave to needy social assistance, as well as spread the ideas of traditional Hinduism.

On the day of the full moon in the month of Magha of the Hindu calendar of the year 1917, Bharat Sevashram Sangha Pranavananda, which had among other objectives, to establish a strengthened India. This goal served and serve today (2012 ), centers for micro industries ( cottage industries ), convent schools, elementary schools and hospitals in both urban and rural areas of India. Stations of the organization were founded abroad. However, members of the organization are mainly active in India, where they stand out by their saffron-colored clothes and the Indian turbans. In cases of natural disasters, famines and epidemics are also active members of the organization, such as, when necessary, in the control of chaotic traffic situations. The organization operates, inter alia, non-profit clinics, hospitals and inns and help where people regardless of their religion, caste or stand

Pranavananda traveled to many areas of India and made a pilgrimage to Kailash in Tibet. He sympathized with the Indian freedom movement of the 1920s and 1930s. His teachings have been codified with the title Geeta Sangha. There, among other things, rules are mapped to the achievement of self-realization and proven ideals such as self-sacrifice, self-control, truth, love and restraint and condemned properties such as laziness, drowsiness or pleasure.

After his death in Calcutta Pranavananda was returned to his native town, and there laid in his already completed mausoleum to rest.

Trivia

In March 2012, the Indian Railways inaugurated in Garia, Kolkata a breakpoint, the Pranavananda halt when interchange station to station Kavi Subhash of Kolkata Metropolitan Railway, which can be reached via an underpass.

Publications

• Exploration in Tibet with a foreword by SP Chatterjee, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 1939. in Hindi, Kailasa mānasarovara, 1943? English and: League, Calcutta, 1949.