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{{Infobox person
|name = Swami Tyagananda
|image =
|caption =
|birth_date = 1956
|occupation = Head of the [[Ramakrishna Vedanta Society]], [[Boston]]. [[Chaplain]] at [[MIT]], [[Harvard]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Bombay]]
}}

'''Swami Tyagananda''' is a [[sanyasi|Hindu monk]] of the [[Ramakrishna Order]] and presently the head of the [[Ramakrishna Vedanta Society]] in [[Boston]]. Currently, he is also the [[Hindu]] [[chaplain]] at [[MIT]]<ref name="mit">
{{cite web
| title = Commencement invocation at MIT
| url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/comm-invocation.html
| accessdate = 2008-07-17}}
</ref> and [[Harvard]].<ref name="harvard">
{{cite web
| title = Harvard Chaplains
| url=http://chaplains.harvard.edu/people/swami-tyagananda
| accessdate = 2014-03-12}}
</ref> He has presented papers at [[academic]] conferences, and he gives lectures and classes at the [[Vedanta Society]], [[MIT]], [[Harvard]], and other colleges in and around [[Boston]].

==Biography==
He joined the [[Ramakrishna Order]] as a monk in 1976, after graduating from the [[University of Bombay]], [[India]].
Swami Tyagananda has served in the following monasteries:
* [[Mumbai]] 1976-1980
* [[Belur Math]] 1980-1982
* [[Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi]] 1982-1983
* [[Chennai]] 1983-1997
* [[Boston]] since 1998

Swami Tyagananda was the [[editor in chief|editor]] of the English language [[Literary magazine|journal]] [[Vedanta Kesari]] based in [[Chennai]], [[India]]. For eleven years. He has translated and edited ten books, including ''Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions'' (1991), ''Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life'' (1996) and ''The Essence of the Gita'' (2000).

Swami Tyagananda also wrote the paper ''Kali’s Child Revisited or Didn’t Anyone Check the Documentation'', in which he examines a list of what he calls "serious errors" that he had found in Jeffery Kripal's book, [[Kali's Child]].<ref>{{cite book
| last = Ramaswamy
| first = Krishnan
|author2=Antonio de Nicolas
| title = Invading the Sacred
| publisher = Rupa & Co.
| year = 2007
| chapter = Targeting Sri Ramakrishna
| pages = 30
| url = http://invadingthesacred.com/
|display-authors=etal}}</ref> Copies of ''Kali's Child Revisited'' were distributed at the annual meeting of the [[American Academy of Religion|AAR]]<ref>
{{cite journal
| last = Sharma
| first = Arvind
| title = Hindus and Scholars
| journal = Religion in the News
| volume = 7
| issue = 1
| publisher = trincoll.edu
| date = Spring 2004
| url = http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol7No1/Hindus%20and%20Scholars.htm
| accessdate = 2008-07-17}}
</ref> and published in journal ''Evam''.<ref>
{{cite journal
| last = Tyagananda
| first = Swami
|author2=Pravrajika Vrajaprana
| title = Kali’s Child Revisited or Didn’t Anyone Check the Documentation
| journal = Evam: Forum on Indian Representations
| volume = 1
| issue = 1–2
| year = 2002
| url = http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_rv/s_rv_tyaga_kali1_frameset.htm
}}
</ref>
<ref>
{{cite web
|title = EVAM - FORUM ON INDIAN REPRESENTATIONS ~ Issue 1
|url = http://www.swaveda.com/journal.php?jid=2&j=Evam
|access-date = 2008-08-20
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060515010546/http://www.swaveda.com/journal.php?jid=2&j=Evam
|archive-date = 2006-05-15
|df =
}}
</ref> Other scholars, such as Lola Williamson from [[University of Wisconsin]], [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]], expressed the view that Swami Tyagananda’s criticisms in ''Kali's Child Revisited'' "indeed go to the heart of things".<ref>See Journal : [http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/72/2/369 The Damage of Separation: Krishna's Loves and Kali's Child by Hawley J Am Acad Relig.2004; 72: 369-393]</ref>
In 2010, Tyagananda co-authored the book ''[[Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited]]'' with [[Pravrajika Vrajaprana]] which further discusses these issues.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tyagananda|author2=Vrajaprana |others=[[Huston Smith]] (foreword)| title=Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-3499-6|pages=410|url=http://www.interpretingramakrishna.com/}}</ref>

In a departure from earlier Hindu traditions, in compliance with the practice prevalent in almost all centers of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Swami Tyagananda also conducts a special service during [[Christmas Eve]]. The event begins with the garlanding of an image of [[Madonna and Child]]. The Nativity story from the [[King James Bible]] is then read out loud, followed by the ''[[Sermon on the Mount]]'' and a homily on [[Jesus]]' life.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/24/DDG4SGC9RD1.DTL&type=printable Finding a link between Jesus and Krishna], [[San Francisco Chronicle]] 24 December 2005</ref> The 139th MIT Commencement ceremony in 2005 began with Swami Tyagananda's invocation in [[Sanskrit]] and English.<ref>[http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/08mit.htm Swami Tyagananda leads MIT Commencement with invocations in Sanskrit and English], Rediff News</ref>

==Works==
* ''Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga'' Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2014.
* ''Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited''. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2010. Co-authored with [[Pravrajika Vrajaprana]].
* ''The Essence of the Gita'' (translator). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2000.
* ''A Study of the Mundaka Upanishad'' (ed and compiler). Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 2000.
* ''Healthy Mind, Healthy Body: New Thoughts on Health'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1997.
* ''Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1996.
* ''Service: Its Ideal and Practice'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1993.
* ''Religion Today'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1992.
* ''Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1991.
* ''Saints and Mystics'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1990.
* ''Holy Scriptures: A Symposium on the Great Scriptures of the World'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1989.
* ''Facets of Vivekananda'' (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1987.

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.vedantasociety.net/index.asp Ramakrishna Vedanta Society]
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/comm-invocation.html Commencement invocation at MIT 2005]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080814150829/http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1426 Why Celibacy? Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Views]
* [http://www.vedantasociety.net/lectures.asp Lectures at Vedanta Society, Boston]
* [http://www.gemstone-av.com/KCR3b.pdf Kali's Child Revisited by Swami Tyagananda]

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