Swami Ashokananda

Ashokananda
Ashokananda
	"A brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the west" – Huston Smith
Personal
Born	Yogeshchandra Dutta [Non-monastic name, till 1923]; 23 September 1893; Bekiteka, Habiganj, North-East Frontier
Died	13 December 1969; Vedanta Society of Northern California
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	Indian
Sect	Non-sectarian. Believes in the truth of all genuine religions.
Known for	Spiritual Ministry in America [1932 – 1969], the editor of the Prabuddha Bharata, English monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, from 1926 to 1930
Organization
Order	Ramakrishna Order of monks
Philosophy	Advaita Vedanta
Religious career
Guru	Vivekananda [Initiated Ashokananda in a vivid mystical vision, confirmed by four other direct monastic disciples of Ramakrishna--Brahmananda, Baburam Maharaj (Swami Premananda), Shivananda and Turiyananda.
	Disciples Sister Gargi;
	Influenced Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Romain Rolland;
Literary works	A Heart Poured Out, Shafts of Light, A Disciple's Journal, Ascent to Spiritual Illumination, Meditation Ecstasy and Illumination, A Soul's Journey to its Destiny, A Call to the Eternal, Spiritual Practice, The Influence of the East on the West, Spiritualizing Everyday Life, When the Many become One, Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco, edited Prabuddha Bharata for 5 years, ran The Voice of India magazine in America in 1945–1946, The Economic Views of Swami Vivekananda
Dominant preaching	Practical Vedanta

Quotation

Meditation is not simply thinking of God. It is an actual perception of God. It is not imagination; it is the anticipation of the Real.^[2]

Swami Ashokananda (23 September 1893 – 13 December 1969), born as Yogeshchandra Dutta, was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda of India and a monk of the Ramakrishna Math. From 1932 until his death in December 1969 at the age of 76 he was in charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco (founded by Vivekananda in 1900).^[3]

^ Sister Gargi (2003). A heart poured out : a story of Swami Ashokananda (1st ed.). New York: Kalpa Tree Press. ISBN 978-0-9706368-1-2. (primary source)
^ Cite error: The named reference Brown2004a was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Jackson, Carl T. (1994). Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33098-7.

[Burke2003-1] Sister Gargi (2003). A heart poured out : a story of Swami Ashokananda (1st ed.). New York: Kalpa Tree Press. ISBN 978-0-9706368-1-2. (primary source)

[Brown2004a-2] Cite error: The named reference Brown2004a was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] Jackson, Carl T. (1994). Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33098-7.

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