Swami nirmalananda giri biography of martin

          Authors: (Swami Nirmalananda Giri), Abbot George Burke.

        1. Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) is the founder and director of the Atma Jyoti Ashram (Light of the Spirit Monastery) in Cedar Crest, New Mexico.
        2. During his first trip to India he was made a member of the ancient Swami Order by Swami Vidyananda Giri, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, who had.
        3. With penetrating insight, Abbot George Burke illumines the wisdom of Lao Tzu's classic writing, the Tao Teh King (Tao Te Ching), and the timeless practical.
        4. The most recent sannyas vow initiation ceremony for Self-Realization Fellowship nuns was conducted for twelve SRF nuns by SRF/YSS President Brother Chidananda.

          5. During his first trip to India he was made a member of the ancient Swami Order by Swami Vidyananda Giri, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, who had....

          Nirmalananda

          Disciple of Ramakrishna (1863–1938)

          Nirmalananda, born as Tulasi Charan Dutta in Calcutta, was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna,[1] the 19th-century mystic and Hindu saint from India, and took Sanyasa (monastic vows) from Vivekananda along with Brahmananda and others.

          He was initiated by Sri Ramakrishna, on which fact a few latter-day antagonists tried to cast doubt in the Bangalore Court, but into which question the Court refused to get into. Nirmalananda played a key role in establishing Ramakrishna Math and Mission chiefly in South India, in Kerala and Bangalore and Tamil Nadu and also in the USA (in Brooklyn), Burma and Bangladesh (Life of Swami Nirmalananda and old issues of Prabuddha Bharata).

          Author: Abbot G Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri), Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri).

          Biography

          Initial days

          Tulasi Charan Dutta was born on 23 December 1863, in Bosepara Lane in the Bagbazar area of Calcutta, to Debnath Dutta and Thakamani Devi. He was the youngest among his brothers.

          At a very young age he was delicate in health, a