Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati: Difference between revisions

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|death_place= Varanasi

'''Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati''' (1833–1899) was a noted 19th-century [[sannyasin]] and saint of [[Varanasi]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Discourses on Hindu spiritual culture, (Volume 3)|author=Akshay Kumar Banerjee  |year=1967 |publisher=S. Chand |page=42}}</ref> He wandered over India for thirteen years before settling in Anandabag near the Durga Mandir, in 1868. A Sanskrit and Vedic scholar turned ascetic of [[Dashanami]] ''Dandi sannyasi'' order, many kings visited him to seek advise, and he also reported be an advisor counsel to [[Kashi Naresh]] (Maharaja of [[Benares State|Kingdom of Kashi]]), today his ''[[samadhi]]'' shrine is situated at ''Durga Kunda'', adjacent to the historic ''Durga Mandir'' in Varanasi.<ref name=liv>{{cite book |title=Living Banaras: Hindu religion in cultural context|author=Bradley R. Hertel |author2=Cynthia Ann Humes  |year=1993 |publisher=SUNY Press  |isbn=0-7914-1331-4 |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-OYL6Khg0UC&pg=PA172 |author-link2=Cynthia Ann Humes }}</ref>

[[Alexandra David-Néel]], she studied yoga with the great Swami Bhaskarananda (of Varanasi), who lived the whole year in a rose garden.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mysteriouspeople.com/Alex_David-Neel.htm| title=A Mystic in Tibet – Alexandra David-Neel|work=mysteriouspeople.com}}</ref> He too was reputed to have yogic powers, and had foreseen his own death. Though his influence spanned all sections of society, the transformation of character of several notorious pandas wrought by his influence is especially worth mentioning.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Varanasi| title=The Holy City of Vishwanatha|work=hindupedia.com}}</ref>  [[Jang Bahadur]] as known as Maharaja Jung Bahadur Rana, the [[King of Nepal]] and founder of the Rana dynasty of Nepal, has written a pamphlet about Swami.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rwu4wNMj3ncC&q=Swami+Bhaskaranand+Saraswati&pg=PA780 | title=Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer|author=Mark Twain|publisher=Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax|year=2006|isbn=0-9548401-8-6|page=780}}</ref> [[Ernest Binfield Havell]] (1864–1937), a close friend of Indologist [[Sir John Woodroffe]] was also devoted to him.<ref>{{cite book |title=Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: 'an Indian soul in a European body?' |author=Kathleen Taylor|year=2001 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-7007-1345-X |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tcykYqIfNqsC&pg=PA96}}</ref>