Brahmananda Saraswati
Overview
 
Brahmananda Saraswati was the Shankaracharya
Shankaracharya
Shankaracharya, is a commonly used title of heads of mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. The title derives from Adi Shankara, a 9th century CE reformer of Hinduism. He is honored as Jagadguru, a title that was used earlier only to Lord Krishna...

 of Jyotir Math
Jyotirmath
Jyotirmath , also called Jyotir Math and Joshimath , is a city and a municipal board in Chamoli District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is home to one of the four cardinal pīthas established by Adi Shankara.-Demographics:...

, a revered Hindu spiritual title in India, from 1941 to 1953.
Brahmananda Saraswati was born into a Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 family in the village of Gana, near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

, India. He was called Rajaram in his younger days and was also known as Maha Yogiraj.

At the age of nine Rajaram left his home unannounced to follow a spiritual path of renunciation but was soon returned to his parents by a policeman.
Quotations

When the mind realizes God, it is permanently established there and does not desire other things.

The disciple should not copy the behaviour of Guru.

The aim of life is to stop the mind from involvement with this world.

EVEN a little of [God's] grace is capable of bestowing on the Jiva [soul] all that is good in its entirety.

ONE should always be cautious, so that no sin happens, so that one has no regrets at the time of death.

Mind remains with you always. Even in the other world - Therefore, connect it with Eternal Existence both in animate and inanimate things, the only permanent entity of the highest order. Connect your mind with Him.

The one who has come, has to go. Nobody can stay here. Every moment keep your luggage packed. Nobody knows when death will call. The warrant of death is like the arrest warrant.

Some moments before he passed away, he told Mahesh, "What I have taught you also contains the knowledge of the technique for the householder.

By gaining Paramatma, everything will become automatic. If you leave Paramatma and try to gain everything else, you will never be able to gain anything. Whatever is gained, will look so little, that you will not feel happy.

 
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