Saradananda

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Saradananda
Swami Saradananda
Personal
Born	Sarat Chandra Chakraborty (1865-12-23)23 December 1865 Calcutta, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Died	19 August 1927(1927-08-19) (aged 61) Calcutta, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Religion	Hinduism
Organization
Philosophy	Advaita Vedanta
Religious career
Guru	Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Disciples Bhuteshananda and others.

Saradananda (23 December 1865 – 19 August 1927), also known as Swami Saradananda, was born as Sarat Chandra Chakravarty in 1865, and was one of the direct monastic disciples of Ramakrishna. He was the first Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, a post which he held until his death in 1927.^[1] He established the Udbodhan house in the Bagbazar area of Calcutta, which was built primarily for the stay of Sri Sarada Devi in Calcutta, from where he used to publish the Bengali magazine Udbodhan. There he wrote Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga in Bengali, on the life of Ramakrishna, which was translated into English as Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master. He is believed to be reincarnation of Saint Peter (Direct apostle of Jesus Christ) and he allegedly went into Samadhi when he was in the Saint Peter Church and said that "I remembered my past" and wrote in his diary that "Saint Peter again."^[2][3]