Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Swami Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri (Bengali হরিহরানন্দ গিরী, * May 27, 1907 – † December 3, 2002), was an Indian yogi and guru. He was born as Rabindranath Bhattacharya, into a family that strongly emphasized spiritual practice and education, in the hamlet of Habibpur, on the bank of the river Ganga, in the district of Nadia, West Bengal, 65 km from Kolkata. [ [http://www.hariharananda.org/english/who_we_are/baba/nadia.html NADIA - The Land of Sages] Website by Swami Sarveshwarananda, personal disciple.]

Biography

Paramahamsa Hariharananda known as "BABA" (Father) to his students, was known as a Kriya Yogi in the lineage of Babaji Maharaj, Shri Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahasaya, Swami Shriyukteshwar Giri, and Paramahamsa Yogananda. He spent his life studying, teaching and fulfilling his mission to share the philosophy and technique of Kriya Yoga with the people of the world. [Paramahamsa Prajnanananda in "River of Compassion: The Life of Paramahamsa Hariharananda", a biography of Paramahamsa Hariharananda, pp. 7-28]

Baba's father Haripada Bhattacharya, an affluent community landlord was a Brahmin, known for his integrity and self-discipline. He was as scholar of Sanskrit, the scriptures of Hinduism and Ayurveda, homeopathy, some modern medicine, and legal matters. He led a strict life with a deep love for God and had high ethical and moral standards. He was a respected priest, astrologer, and healer. He believed he had divined the special destiny of his tenth child, and called him "Sannyasi Thakur" (Lord monk). [Paramahamsa Prajnanananda in "River of Compassion: The Life of Paramahamsa Hariharananda", a biography of Paramahamsa Hariharananda, pp. 54, 56]

Baba's mother, Nabin Kali, was a woman from the village of Birnagar, Nadia and came from a Brahmin family. Nabin Kali means Eternal Mother Divine. She helped the poor and needy in the community.Fact|date=August 2008 Nabin Kali and Haripada had eleven children, five sons and six daughters. Rabindranath (Rabi in short) was the youngest son and later came to be known as Paramahamsa Hariharananda. [Paramahamsa Prajnanananda in "River of Compassion: The Life of Paramahamsa Hariharananda", a biography of Paramahamsa Hariharananda, pp. 58, 59]

At four and a half, Hariharananda had already memorized all the puja mantras of Hinduism by simply hearing his father, recite them a few times. By the age of twelve, he took initiation in the path of Jnana Yoga from the master Shri Bijoy Krishna Chattopadhyay, after visiting him a couple of times in the company of his brother Pareshnath and brother-in-law, both disciples of his. A disciple of Trailinga Swami of Benares, Bijoy Krishna Chattopadhyaya was known as "Howrah Thakur" because he lived in the Howrah suburb of Kolkata. [ [http://www.hariharananda.org/english/who_we_are/baba/early_training.html EARLY TRAINING OF HARIHARANANDA "BABA"] Swami Sarveshwarananda, personal disciple.]

In 1932, he went to meet the Kriya master, Swami Shriyukteshwar Giri. Shriyukteshwarjee initiated him into Kriya Yoga, in his Serampore ashram, West Bengal, also taught him cosmic astrology, and entreated him to come and live in his Karar Ashram in Puri, Orissa. [ [http://kriya.org/baba__kriya.php Meeting His Master] Website by the Kriya Yoga Institute founded by P. Hariharananda.] Due to professional and family obligations, Rabi was not able to fulfill his master's wishes until six years later.

In 1935, he met Paramahamsa Yogananda, and received the second Kriya initiation from him. In 1938, he renounced the material life and entered his Master's Ashram in Puri, Orissa, starting the life of an ascetic monk as Brahmachari Rabinarayan. [ [http://kriya.org/store_product_detail.php?id=14 Paramahamsa Hariharananda, Kriya Yoga] 6th edition.]

He received the third Kriya initiation from Swami Satyananda Giri in 1941, back then head of the Karar Ashram and childhood friend of Paramahamsa Yogananda.

On May 27, 1959 he took formal monastic vows from the Shankaracharya of Puri Srimad Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha (the Hindu equivalent to the Pope) and was named Swami Hariharananda Giri. [ [http://kriya.org/store_product_detail.php?id=14 Paramahamsa Hariharananda, Kriya Yoga] 6th edition.]

The year 1974 marked his first journey to the West, where he would return every year to spread the message of divine love through conscious awareness of God within. His travels took him all over Europe, South America, the United States, and Canada where he established centers and ashrams.

Baba initiated his chosen disciple Brahmachari Santananda into monkhood and named him as Swami Yogeshwarananda Giri, to carry out his mission in the Karar Ashram. On March 22, 1983. He nominated him as president and Sadhusabhapati of [http://www.kararashram.com/ Karar Ashram] . The ashram was founded by Swami Shriyukteshwar Giri, the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda who wrote the famous book, The Autobiography of a Yogi.

He initiated thousands of people into Kriya Yoga and remained extensively in the West after 1990 and his work continues. Paramahamsa Hariharananda's spiritual successor, Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, [ [http://dankvart.dk/video?video=7 Dankvart Film] "Video-biography of a Yogi" Last chapter online, production by Thorsten Dreyer, Kopenhagen.] , who continues to spread his message, to teach Kriya Yoga and to develop ashrams all over the world.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda died in Miami, Florida, United States in 2002cite news |title=Spiritual leader of Kriya Yoga movement dies. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8935605_ITM |work=The Miami Herald |date=2002-12-05 |accessdate=2008-05-30 ] and was laid to rest in Balighai, Orissa, India that same month [ [http://dankvart.dk/video?video=4 Dankvart Film] "Video-biography of a Yogi" First chapter online, production by Thorsten Dreyer, Kopenhagen.] .

Through the charitable arm of the Kriya Yoga Intrenational organisations (all of whom are non-profit) in India, [http://www.prajnanamission.org/ "Prajnana Mission"] , Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, students and other volunteers work to construct and maintain free medical institutions called "Hariharananda Charitable Health Centers", including several Health Centers, a Mobile medical and dental Unit, fund libraries in schools, the opening and extension of a residential school for impoverished children and orphans, called Hariharananda Balashram, the construction of catastrophe resistant houses in a village destroyed in the 1999 cyclone in Orissa, India. Paramahamsa Hariharananda's legacy appears to live on through the love and lives of his students. [ [http://dankvart.dk/video?video=7 Dankvart Film] "Video-biography of a Yogi" Last chapter online, production by Thorsten Dreyer, Kopenhagen.] Honoring his 100th birth year from 2006 to 2007. [ [http://baba100.org/ Centenary Website] honoring his 100th birthday."]

Criticism

According to Swami Satyeswarananda Giri —lawyer, monk and alleged disciple of Mahavatar Babaji and Swami Satyananda Giri (whom Paramahamsa Hariharananda claimed to have received third Kriya initiation from)—Paramahamsa Hariharananda never met Swami Sri Yukteswar and only fabricated the story of his discipleship to justify his takeover of Karar Ashram [http://www.sanskritclassics.com/yogananda.htm Swami Satyeswarananda Giri] [Kriya: Finding the True Path, ISBN 187785414X] , which eventually caused Self-Realization Fellowship to sue him. ["In the same spirit, I heartily approved your suing Swami Hariharananda when he seized Sri Yukteswar's ashram property in Puri." – [http://www.yoganandarediscovered.org/jaitruth/openltr4.html An Open Letter to the SRF Board of Directors] , by Swami Kriyananda] .

Swami Satyananda Giri, as quoted by his personal student Swami Satyeswarananda Giri, also denounced Paramahamsa Hariharananda's claim of receiving his first Kriya initiation from Swami Sri Yukteswar:"Rabindra was initiated into Kriya by Bijoya K. Chatterjee of Howrah, the householder disciple of Sriyukteswar, and learned Kriya from me. However, he received permission to initiate others into Kriya through a letter in October 1951 from Yogananda." [, p. 228]

External links

* [http://www.kriya.org/baba__main.php Kriya Yoga International] website, of the worldwide group of organisations, led by Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, who is Hariharananda's spiritual successor
* [http://www.hariharananda.org/english/publications/podcasts/podcasts_index.html#interviews Radio Interview] with Paramahamsa Hariharananda
* [http://www.baba100.org/photos.php?bw=lo Fotos of Paramahamsa Hariharananda]
* [http://www.kriyayoga-meditatie.nl/ The first European Kriya Yoga Asharm] , founded by Paramahamsa Hariharananda in 1993 in Sterksel, the Netherlands. Rajarshi Peter van Breukelen is presiding, the well most experienced Kriya Yoga acharya today, he personally initiated more than 10,000 Kriyayans. - Website in three languages (Netherlands, German, English).
* [http://www.prajnanamission.org/ Prajnana Mission] in India, founded by Paramahamsa Prajnanananda
* [http://www.kararashram.com/ Karar Ashram] in Puri, Orissa, India - presided over by Swami Yogeshwarananda Giri, disciple of Paramahamsa Hariharananda

ee also

*Kriya Yoga
*Paramahansa Yogananda
*Swami Sri Yukteswar
*Lahiri Mahasaya
*Mahavatar Babaji

Further reading

*Kriya Yoga The Scientific Process of Soul Culture And The Essence of All Religions "by Paramahamsa Hariharananda" Hardcover - Diederichs - 2004 ISBN 3720525562
*Kriya Yoga The Scientific Process of Soul Culture And The Essence of All Religions "by Paramahamsa Hariharananda" Paperback - Motilal Banarsidass - 2006 ISBN 8120831411

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