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.

* Prabhavananda, Swami Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta 1991 ISBN 0-87481-050-7

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.

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:

Brahmachari Mahesh remained with Swami Brahmananda Saraswati until the latter died in 1953, when he moved to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas.

His wife died a few years after their marriage, and he eventually was formally intitiated into the monastic Swami order as " Sriyuktesvar Giri " ( note: thus ' Sri ' is not a separate honorific, but part of his given name ).

Swami Muktananda died on October 2, 1982.

In 1917 when Baburam Maharaj ( Swami Premananda ) fell ill and died, his duties of managing the affairs of the Math and Mission came to rest with Swami Shivananda.

While staying in Allahabad he also had a vision of Swami Vivekananda on the day the latter died in 1902.

Swami Ghanananda ( died 1969 ) was a monk of Ramakrishna Mission, who went to Europe to spread the message of Vedanta.

Swami Purushottamanandaji died on Friday February 25, 2005 at the Narayana Hrudayalaya, due to a massive heart attack at the age of 73.

After Srila Prabhupada died, Jayapataka Swami began to accept disciples as a spiritual master in the Srila Prabhupada branch of the Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami died June 27, 2005, of complications from melanoma, at Gita Nagari, the Gaudiya Vaishnava community in central Pennsylvania.

Swami Gahanananda died on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 5. 35 pm after a prolonged illness.

' Shivdayāl Singh Seth ( called " Swami Ji " by followers and devotees ) was born 25 August 1818 ( Agra, Uttar Pradesh ) and died 15 June 1878 ( Agra ).

Pramukh Swami continued to serve as the president of BAPS under the guidance of guru Yogiji Maharaj after Shastriji Maharaj died in 1951.

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.