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	'''Swami Satprakashananda''' (April 1888 – 15 November 1979) was an ~~[[India]]n~~ [[philosopher]], [[monk]] of the [[Ramakrishna Order]], and religious teacher.		'''Swami Satprakashananda''' (April 1888 – 15 November 1979) was an Indian [[philosopher]], [[monk]] of the [[Ramakrishna Order]], and religious teacher.

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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'''Swami Satprakashananda''' (April 1888 – 15 November 1979) was an [[India]]n [[philosopher]], [[monk]] of the [[Ramakrishna Order]], and religious teacher.

==Biography==
Swami Satprakashananda was born in [[Dhaka]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]) in April 1888 in what has been described as a "pious [[Hinduism|Hindu]] family".<ref name=shorthist99/>{{rp|388}}<ref name=biorkm/> His premonastic name was Harish, and his father died when he was young.<ref name=shorthist99/>{{rp|388}} Harish joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1924 in Dhaka after postgraduate work at the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=biorkm>[http://www.rkmdelhi.org/about-us/swami-satprakashananda/ Swami Satprakashananda] (biography page at Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi), accessed 15 March 2019.</ref> He had been initiated by [[Swami Brahmananda]] in 1908, later receiving monastic orders ([[Sannyasa]]) from [[Swami Shivananda]] in 1927. Satprakashananda served for a time as an associate editor of ''[[Prabuddha Bharata]]'', an [[English language|English]]-language monthly [[Academic journal|journal]] of the [[Ramakrishna Order]] published since 1896,<ref
name=pbsaga>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321080034/http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/04/stories/2009010456461600.htm The saga of a journal] ''[[The Hindu]]'', 4 January 2009.</ref> and for six years directed the [[Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi|Ramakrishna Mission Center in New Delhi]].<ref
name=jackson94>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Carl T. |title=Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States |date=1994 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253113887 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgOUdndOV8oC}}</ref>{{rp|114}}

In 1937, Satprakashananda was sent to the United States of America.
He gave lectures for a summer in [[Washington, D.C.]], but decided not to start a center in that city "for two reasons: the central focus of the city is political, not spiritual, and its population is transient."<ref name=shorthist99>{{cite journal |last1=Vedanta Society |first1=St. Louis |title=A short history of the Vedanta Society of St. Louis (1938 to 1996) |journal=[[Prabuddha Bharata]] |date=1999 |volume=104 |issue=1 |pages=387–393 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYrXAAAAMAAJ&q=satprakashananda |issn=0032-6178}}</ref>{{rp|391}}

Satprakashananda subsequently went to [[Saint Louis, Missouri]] where in 1938 he established a permanent [[Vedanta Society]] which he directed for the next forty years.<ref name=jackson94/>{{rp|114}}

Satprakashananda was a scholar and wrote a number of books on [[Vedanta]] and Indian religious scriptures and commentary. He taught [[Huston Smith]], an influential writer and religious studies scholar. Smith stated that "Swami Satprakashananda first introduced me to [[Indian psychology|Hindu psychology]]... [and] was perhaps the only person I know who was truly a [[saint]]".<ref name=smithreader12>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Huston |author1-link=Huston Smith |last2=Paine |first2=Jeffery |author2-link=Jeffery Paine |title=The Huston Smith reader |date=2012 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520270220 |url=https://archive.org/details/hustonsmithreade0000smit |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|78}}

In ''American Veda'', Philip Goldberg reported that after moving into the area, Huston Smith sought out the Saint Louis Vedanta Society, "took up a meditation practice and probed deeply into Vedanta, meeting with Satprakashananda for tutorials virtually every week for ten straight years."<ref name=goldberg10>{{cite book |last1=Goldberg |first1=Philip |title=American Veda: from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation--how Indian spirituality changed the West |date=2010 |publisher=Harmony Books |location=New York |isbn=9780385521352 |oclc=808413359 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Veda/b3Mdr3IMgW0C?hl=en&gbpv=1}}</ref>{{rp|104}}
When the St. Louis Vedanta Society grew and was ready to purchase its own building, Smith placed the deed in his own name, having served "as front man for the transaction,"<ref name=goldberg10/>{{rp|104}} because "someone—the owner, the realtors, or the city—refused to sell to a dark-skinned heathen like Satprakashananda,"<ref name=goldberg10/>{{rp|104}} an incident described by the ''American Vedantist'' as an occasion when Swami Satprakashananda "faced [[racial discrimination]]."<ref name=horn18>{{cite journal |last1=Horn |first1=Patrick |title=The Hidden History of Vedanta in the West |journal=American Vedantist |date=Spring 2018 |issue=73 |url=https://americanvedantist.org/2018/articles/hidden-history-of-vedanta-in-the-west/ |access-date=16 March 2019 |issn=1551-7284 |oclc=55974041}}</ref>

==Thought==
Historian Carl Jackson noted the similarity of Satprakashananda's presentation of seven principles of Vedanta with a presentation almost fifty years earlier by the Vedanta Society of San Francisco, remarking that "there is a uniformity... that suggests that in nearly a century there has been almost no deviation from [[Swami Vivekananda]]'s original formulations"<ref name=jackson94/>{{rp|68}}

Goldberg reported that when Satprakashananda was asked whether Vedanta would take root in America, he replied "Yes, but the source will not be recognized" — a reply that Goldberg described as "prescient."<ref name=goldberg10/>{{rp|24}}

==Written works, selected==

*{{cite book |last1=Satprakashananda |first1=Swami |title=Vedanta for All |date=2001 |location=Chennai, India |publisher=Sri Ramakrishna Math |isbn=9788171209347 |oclc=489436180 |url=https://www.google.com/books?id=7bg5CgAAQBAJ}} (compiled and edited by Ray Ellis; republished by Lulu Press, 2015, {{ISBN|9781329356078}})
*{{cite book |last1=Satprakashananda |first1=Swami |title=The goal and the way: the Vedantic approach to life's problems |date=1977 |publisher=Vedanta Society of St. Louis |isbn=9780916356569 |oclc=3608069}}
**Reviewed in ''[[Philosophy East and West]]''<ref name=gupta79>{{cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Bina |title=Untitled [review of Satprakashananda's The Goal and the Way and Balasubramanian's Advaita Vedanta] |journal=[[Philosophy East and West]] |date=1979 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=247–249|doi=10.2307/1398565 |jstor=1398565}}</ref>
*{{cite book |last1=Satprakashananda |first1=Swami |title=Methods of Knowledge: Perceptual, Non-perceptual, and Transcendental |url=https://archive.org/details/methodsofknowled0000satp |url-access=registration |date=1965 |publisher=George Allen and Unwin |location=London |oclc=912068500}}
**Reviewed in ''[[Philosophy East and West]]'',<ref name=hinck1968>{{cite journal |last1=Hinck |first1=Karl |title=Untitled [review of Satprakashananda's Methods of Knowledge According to Advaita Vedanta] |journal=[[Philosophy East and West]] |date=1968 |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=220|doi=10.2307/1398268 |jstor=1398268}}</ref> ''The Middle Way''<ref name=middleway66>{{cite journal |last1=Anonymous |title='Methods of Knowledge - according to Advaita Vedanta.' Swami Satprakashananda |journal=The Middle Way |date=1 May 1966 |volume=41 |pages=48 |publisher=Buddhist Society UK |location=London |issn=0026-3214 |oclc=149693404}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0-1dFXQ1A Video of Swami Satprakashananda from 1 January 1940] (YouTube)
*[https://vedantastl.org/ Vedanta Society of Saint Louis]

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