Swami Adidevananda (1912 – 1983) was a monk of the

Ramakrishna Mission Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the ''Ramakrishna Movement'' or the ''Vedanta Movement''. The mission is named after and inspired by th ...

Life

He was born as Venkatapathi in 1912 in the erstwhile

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State. He began his monastic life at the

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centre of Ramakrishna Math in 1934. He looked after the publication department of the centre for 6 years. He received initiation from

Swami Vijnanananda Swami Vijnanananda (born Hariprasanna Chattopadhyaya; 30 October 1868 – 25 April 1938) was an Indian monk of Ramakrishna order, born in an upper-class family near Dakshineswar, and was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna. He was an engineer and ...

. He received sanyasa from

Swami Virajananda Swami Virajananda (10 June 1873 – 30 May 1951), born Kalikrishna Bose, was an initiated disciple of Sarada Devi and the sixth president of the Ramakrishna Order. Born as the son of Trailokyanath Bose and Nishadkalidevi, Virajananda was the ...

, the 6th President of the Order, in 1942. After working at the

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Sevashrama for about 7 years. He then posted at the centre in Vishakhapattanam in October 1947. He assumed the charge as the manager of the

centre in November 1948. Thereafter he took charge of the Math centre at

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and was mainly responsible for its growth. The ashrama with its orphanage and a charitable dispensary, flourished under his care. He was elected a trustee of Ramakrishna Math and member of Governing body of Mission in December 1965. He was the treasurer of organisation for some years. He was at headquarters of Ramakrishna Math,

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till 1970. He became president of centre at Basavanagudi in

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. p. 77. He died on 14 June 1983 at the age of 71.

Works

During his 17 years of spiritual ministration at Mangalore, he translated into

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

many of

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scriptures. His literary contributions comprise the following works:

Kannada works

# Bhagavad

Gita The Bhagavad Gita (; sa, श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, lit=The Song by God, translit=śrīmadbhagavadgītā;), often referred to as the Gita (), is a 700-Sanskrit prosody, verse Hindu texts, Hindu scripture that is part o ...

# Eleven Major

Upanishads The Upanishads (; sa, उपनिषद् ) are late Vedic Sanskrit texts that supplied the basis of later Hindu philosophy.Wendy Doniger (1990), ''Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism'', 1st Edition, University of Chicago Press, , ...

# Upanishattugala Sara-sangraha : Gist of the Upanishads # Brahmasutras # Patanjala Yoga-darshana : Yogasutras of Patanjali - along with commentary by Vyasa # Shree Lalita Sahasranama : Thousand names of Shri Lalitha # Shree Lalita Threeshati stotra : Three hundred hymns to Shri Lalitha # Viveka Chudamani of Shankaracharya # Panchadashi of Vidyaranya

English Works

# Brahmasutras with Ramanuja Bhashya (co-authored with Swami Vireswarananda) # Bhagavad Gita with Bhashya of Sri

Ramanuja Ramanuja (Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmanuja; 1017 CE – 1137 CE; ; ), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer. He is noted to be one of the most important exponents o ...

# Yatindra-mata-deepika # Stotra-ratna of Yamunacharya

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