Born in the village of Trikkur Kerala on 15 December 1908 Swami Ranganathananda joined the Ramakrishna order the international spiritual and cultural movement founded by Swami Vivekananda. He was formally initiated into Sanyasa by Swami Shivananda one of the eminent disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second president of the order. Swami Ranganathananda was the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna mission. He was an internationally acclaimed speaker whose stirring eloquence captivated thousands of people in India and abroad. In 1986 he was awarded the first Indira Gandhi Award for national integration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajiv Mehrotra
Rajiv Mehrotra was educated at the universities of Delhi, Oxford and Columbia. For over three decades he has been a familiar face on public television, notably as the anchor of an in-depth, one-on-one talk show. He is presently secretary/trustee of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and managing trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust. He is Judge of the Templeton Prize for Spirituality, a trustee of the Norbulinka Institute of Tibetan Culture, and has served on the governing councils of the Sri Aurobindo Society and the Film and Television Institute of India. As an independent Documentary film-maker, he has won several international and national awards. He was nominated a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum at Davos. Rajiv is the author of The Mind of the Guru: Conversations with Spiritual Masters and is currently working on a biography of the Dalai Lama.
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