Meditation and Spiritual Life

Swami Yatiswarananda (1889-1966), a senior monk and former Vice-President of the Ramakrishna Order and Mission, was a well known spiritual figure in the Neo-Vedanta movement. Besides seven years of pioneering work in spreading Vedanta in Europe and ten years of teaching Vedanta in the USA, he served fin succession as the President of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama in Bombay, Madras and Bangalore. Known in his premonastic life as Suresh Chandra Battacharya, the Swami was an intiated disciple of Swami Brahmananada, and was widely respected for his high spiritual attainments, Yogic insight and mature wisdom,. He advocated and lived a well-harmonized spiritual life with meditation as the keynote. He was a source of inspiration not only to his monastic and lay disciples, but also to a large number of other people in India and abroad to whom he endeared himself by his selfless love and gracious manners.