Swami Paramananda
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Paramananda was a swami and one of the early Indian teachers who went to the United States to spread the Vedanta philosophy and religion there. He was a mystic, a poet and an innovator in spiritual co
Paramananda circa 1910
Ananda Ashrama Community, La Crescenta, California. Founded 1923, photographed 2025.
Swami Vivekananda 1893 Scanned Image
Ramakrishna Order
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The Ramakrishna Order is the monastic lineage that was founded by Ramakrishna Paramhansa, when he gave the ochre cloth of renunciation to twelve of his close disciples, in January 1886 at the Cossipor
Swami Paramananda
…Ramakrishna and the first swami to teach in America. Paramananda was initiated a month before his eighteenth birthday, becoming a monk (sannyasin) of the Ramakrishna Order and the youngest disciple of Vivekananda. The President of the Ramakrishna Math, Brahmananda, would call Suresh "Basanta Kokhil" [spring-bird], or…
Emblem of the Ramakrishna Order