Swarupananda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Swarupananda

Indian religious leader

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1871

Place of Birth: Bengal

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1906

Profession: translator, author, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Swarupananda (8 July 1871 – 27 June 1906) was a direct monastic disciple of Vivekananda and the first president of the Advaita Ashrama, set up by Vivekananda in 1899 at Mayavati, near Champawat.
The ashram is a branch of the religious monastic order, Ramakrishna Math, also set up by Vivekananda on the teachings of his guru Ramakrishna. Swarupananda remained as editor of Prabuddha Bharata, an English-language monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, when it shifted base from Chennai in 1898 and remained so till 1906.Vivekananda exclaimed to Sara Bull and other friends about the young disciple whom he had initiated into the monastic order, "we have made an acquisition today."