In the field of religion, Huxley ’ s friend and spiritual mentor, the Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, thought that mescaline was an illegitimate path to enlightenment, a " deadly heresy " as Christopher Isherwood put it.

The Vedanta Society of Southern California, with its headquarters in Hollywood, was founded in 1930 by Swami Prabhavananda.

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Swami Prabhavananda ( December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976 ) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher.

Swami Prabhavananda was a scholar who authored a number of books on Vedanta and Indian religious scriptures and commentary.

Swami Prabhavananda died on the bicentennial of America's independence, July 4, 1976, and on the 74th anniversary of the death, or mahasamadhi, of Swami Vivekananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna Order in India and many of the Vedanta centers in America and Europe.

Christopher Isherwood wrote a book, My guru and his disciple, that described his more than three decades ( 1939 – 76 ) as a student of Swami Prabhavananda ( see also historical work by Copley ).

The review stated that " Swami Prabhavananda has written a charming and authoritative book on the spiritual heritage of India, by which he means that heritage in consonance with the Vedic tradition and its culmination in Vedanta " ( p. 376 ).

Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood's translation of the Bhagavad Gita was reviewed by Time Magazine in 1945.

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His life and teachings have been compiled by Swami Prabhavananda in the book The Eternal Companion.

* Eternal Companion: life and teachings of Swami Brahmananda-Swami Prabhavananda & Swami Yatiswarananda

Heard was the first among a group of literati friends ( several others of whom, including Christopher Isherwood, were also British ) to discover Swami Prabhavananda and Vedanta.

The Act 2, scene iii chorus, borrowed from the Bhagavad Gita ( translated into English by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood ) reads:

Swami Sivananda, an Advaita scholar, reiterates the same views in his commentary synthesising Vedanta views on the Brahma Sutras, a Vedantic text.

In his book on Japa Yoga, Himalaya Press 1978, Swami Sivananda states that a yogi that practices Japa with only the Om and is successful at Mahasamyama

The temple at Arasavilli was constructed in such a way that on the day of Radhasaptami, the sun's rays directly fall on the feet of the Sri Suryanarayana Swami, the deity at the temple.

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

** Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

After an accidental meeting between Jamsetji N. Tata and Swami Vivekananda on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to Vivekananda five years later:

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

At Kanyakumari, the Swami meditated on the " last bit of Indian rock ", famously known later as the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, for three days.

Swami Vivekananda on the platform of the Parliament of Religions September 1893.

Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899, later published many of Swami Vivekananda's work, now publishes Prabuddha Bharata journal

The Swami Vivekananda temple at Belur Math, on the place where he was cremation | cremated.

He had a walk with Swami Premananda, a brother-disciple, and gave him instructions on the future of the Ramakrishna Math.

Swami Vivekananda believed a country's future depends on its people ; his teachings focussed on this area.

Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara.

* ( Collected articles on Swami Vivekananda, reprinted in 1994 )

However, in 1922, Sir John George Woodroffe published a commentary on the Karpuradistotram by the Kaula commentator Swami Vimalananda.

The temple was founded by Swami Satyamitranand Giri, on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar.

One example of such group was the Hare Krishna movement ( ISKCON ) founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966, many of whose followers voluntarily accepted the demandingly ascetic lifestyle of bhakti yoga on a full-time basis, in stark contrast to much of the popular culture of the time.

Saint Kulasekhara Alvar prays to the Lord Srinivasa to grant him even the lowest birth in the holy Tirumala Hills — as a fish in the sacred Swami Pushkarini, or as a tree, or as anything on the golden hills of Lord Venkateswara ( emberumaan ponmalai mEl EdhEnum avEnE ).

He was trusted to take care of the bulk of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati's correspondence without direction, and was also sent out to give public speeches on Vedic ( scriptural ) themes.

His doctors and former attorney, Philip J. Toelkes ( Swami Prem Niren ), hypothesised radiation and thallium in a deliberately irradiated mattress, since his symptoms were concentrated on the right side of his body, but presented no hard evidence.

The All India Kisan Sabha ( AIKS ) was formed at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress on 11 April 1936, with the legendary nationalist Swami Sahajanand Saraswati elected as its first President, in order to address the longstanding grievances of the peasantry and mobilise them against the zamindari landlords attacks on their occupancy rights, thus sparking the Farmers movements in India.

According to Swami Sivananda, the view that the Shiva lingam represents the phallus is a mistake ; The same sentiments have also been expressed by H. H. Wilson in 1840.

According to the testimony of Swami Devageet ( Charles Harvey Newman ) she was admonished in front of the others, with Osho declaring that his house, and not hers, was the centre of the commune.

According to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Harā refers to " the energy of God " while Krishna and Rama refer to God himself, meaning " He who is All-Attractive " and " He who is the Source of All Pleasure ".

According to Vedas, holy name of Vishnu is so powerful that one ( even outcaste or meat-eater as in ISKCON ) can become brahman ( dvija, twice-born, by qualification if he actually knows vedanta and Brahman, Vishnu ) by accepting initiation from bona-fide spiritual master ( like A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ).

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Govinda has four meanings:

According to Swami Parmeshwaranand Mleccha tribe was born from the tail of the celestial cow Nandini, kept by Vashishta for sacrificial purposes when there was a fight between Vishvamitra and Vasistha.

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the Avadhuta Gita is a text of Advaita Vedanta sung by Dattatreya and recorded by his disciples Swami and Kartika.

According to Jain traditions, it was on this day, falling at the beginning of chaturmas, the four month rainy season retreat, Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself, therefore it is observed in Jainism as Guru Purnima, and is marked special veneration to one's Gurus and teachers.

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the " Avadhuta Gita is a distillation of the sublime realization sung by Dattatreya and transcribed by two of his disciples, Swami and Kartika.

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu sahasranama, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Janardana means " One who inflicts suffering on evil men.

According to Swami Sivananda's book, Sixty-Three Nayanar Saints, pg.

According to Dvaita philosophy, Mayavada is an incorrect understanding of the nature of Supreme and it is strongly refuted by saints like Madhavacarya, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Baladeva Vidyabhusana, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur and most recently by Bhaktivedanta Swami.

According to Sri Swami Sivananda: " Prarabdha is that portion of the past karma which is responsible for the present body.

According to the letter of 28 July 1970 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appointed the following members to the commission, all of them non-sannyasis ( non-renunciates ).

According to Praveen Swami, Naik is " perhaps the most influential Salafi ideologue in India ".

According to Swami, Naik's IRF has proved to be a " magnet " for figures linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, while his message has mesmerised violent Islamists, and his works " help make sense of the motivations of Indian recruits to the jihad.

According to Princeton University website, the book " explores the life and mission of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami ( 1950-2005 ), an African-American seeker who rose from impoverished conditions in the Cleveland ghetto to become a global spiritual leader of the Hare Krishna movement ".

According to Swami Kriyananda, " The assumption of this mudra helps to hasten the advent of deep spiritual states of consciousness.

According to the teachings of Swaminarayan, devotees consider God ( Swaminarayan ) to be manifest through Pramukh Swami Maharaj.