Swami Rudrananda

Swami Rudrananda
Personal
Born
Muthukrishnan

(1901-03-11)March 11, 1901[1]
Manalmedu village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India
DiedJune 30, 1985(1985-06-30) (aged 84)
ReligionHinduism
Organization
OrderRamakrishna Mission
PhilosophyVedanta
Religious career
GuruSwami Shivananda

Swami Rudrananda (11 March 1901 – 30 June 1985), born Muthukrishnan, was an Indian Hindu monk and a disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic, Swami Shivananda, the direct disciple of Ramakrishna. After moving to Fiji in 1936 he became one of the country's most respected Indo-Fijian leaders, and was a founder of the National Federation Party.[2]

  1. ^ Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam; November 2014 page 34
  2. ^ "Deaths". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 56, no. 9. 1 September 1985. p. 65. Retrieved 18 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.