>Ira Leviton: Fixed typos found with Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss.

2021-07-03T19:39:42Z

Fixed typos found with Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss.

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Pravrajika Bhaktiprana
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = October 1920
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality =
| other_names =
| spouse =
| occupation = Hindu Missionary
| years_active = 1950–present
| known_for = expanding a 10-bedded maternity centre into a 100-bedded modern hospital
| notable_works =
}}
'''Pravrajika Bhaktiprana''' (born October 1920), a Hindu sannyasini, is the fourth president of the [[Sri Sarada Math]] and [[Ramakrishna Sarada Mission]], [[Dakshineswar]], in [[Kolkata]], India. She took over as president of the institution on 2 April 2009.<ref name=Sanyasin>{{Cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090403/jsp/calcutta/story_10764490.jsp|title=Healer at the helm|date=3 April 2009|accessdate=4 December 2015|publisher=Telegraph India}}</ref> In her name "Pravrjika" means "mendicant nun" and the suffix to her name Bhakti is 'prana' which means "who is devoted to".<sup>Sanyasini</sup><ref name="Albertson1970">{{cite book|first=Edward|last=Albertson|title=Vedanta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ScMMAAAAIAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Sherbourne Press}}</ref>

==Biography==
Bhaktiprana was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in October 1920. She did her school education from the Gouri Ma’s Saradeswari Ashram in Calcutta. Right from a very young age her interest was towards spirituality, and she was associated with the monks of the [[Belur Math]] of the [[Ramakrishna Math]] and [[Ramakrishna Mission]]. She initially trained as a nurse. In 1950, she was employed as a nurse at the Matri Bhavan, a hospital that was under the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission in [[Tollygunge]].<ref name=Sanyasin/>

In 1953, Bhaktiprana was given [[diksha]] (spiritual initiation) and given oath of [[brahmacharya]] by [[Swami Vijnanananda]], who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and was than also the fourth president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission.<ref name=Sanyasin/> She was made a sanyasinin in 1959 by [[Swami Shankarananda (Indian monk)|Swami Shankarananda]], the president of Ramakrishna Math at that time. She was given the trusteeship of the [[Sri Sarada Math]] in 1959. In 1959 itself the math had been given an independent identity. In 1960, she became a member of the governing body of the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission. When Matri Bhavan hospital, a 10-bed maternity care centre where she had worked as a nurse came under the control of Ramakrishna Sarada Mission following its transfer from the [[Ramakrishna Mission]] she was appointed as its secretary. Under her leadership the hospital has now expanded into a 100-bedded modern hospital facility from an earlier 10-bed maternity care centre. In December 1998, she got elected to the post of vice president of the [[Sri Sarada Math]] and [[Ramakrishna Sarada Mission]].<ref name=Sanyasin/> On 13 October 2003 as Vice President she was a special invitee for the inauguration of the Vedanta Centre at [[Pangot]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.srisaradamath.org/pangot.php|title=Ramakrishna Sarada Mission - Pangot (Nainital), Uttaranchal|accessdate=4 December 2015 |publisher=Srisaramath Organization}}</ref> Following the death of [[Pravrajika Shraddhaprana]] in February 2009, she took over as president of the mission in April 2009. On assuming this position she said "All my life, I have tried to live for others. That’s what Ma [Sarada Devi] would’ve wanted me to do... Without [[Sarada Devi|Ma]]’s blessings, we are nothing."<ref name=Sanyasin/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.srisaradamath.org Sarada Math website]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhaktiprana, Pravrajika}}
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders]]
[[Category:Educators from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Female missionaries]]
[[Category:Hindu nuns]]
[[Category:Indian Hindu missionaries]]
[[Category:Indian nuns]]
[[Category:Indian women religious leaders]]
[[Category:Scholars from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Women educators from West Bengal]]

Pravrajika Bhaktiprana - Revision history

>Ira Leviton: Fixed typos found with Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss.