PHILOSOPHER

Chinmayananda Saraswati

1916 - 1993

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Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Cinmayānanda Sarasvatī), also known as Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (born Balakrishna Menon; 8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993), was a Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher. In 1953, he founded Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, in order to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. Through the Mission, Swami Chinmayananda spearheaded a global Hindu spiritual and cultural renaissance that popularised these spiritual texts and values, teaching them in English all across India and abroad. Swami Chinmayananda was originally a journalist and participated in the Indian independence movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chinmayananda Saraswati is the 1,020th most popular philosopher (up from 1,236th in 2019), the 523rd most popular biography from India (up from 879th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 1,020 out of 1,267. Before him are Abraham Joshua Heschel, Stanisław Staszic, Achille Mbembe, Jerzy Żuławski, Colotes, and Merab Mamardashvili. After him are Simón Rodríguez, Lysander Spooner, Gabriel Biel, Anselm of Laon, Ivan Aksakov, and Arulenus Rusticus.

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Among people born in 1916, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 161. Before him are Tatevik Sazandaryan, Anthony Dawson, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Pruden, Carlo Rustichelli, and Chiang Fang-liang. After him are Torsten Hägerstrand, Budd Boetticher, Betty Taylor, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Tinus Osendarp, and Keenan Wynn. Among people deceased in 1993, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 152. Before him are Elvira Popescu, Erich Leinsdorf, Elmar Klos, Edith Farkas, John Frost, and Camargo Guarnieri. After him are Paul Mebus, Chishū Ryū, Eugen Suchoň, Robert Jacobsen, Wang Zhen, and Emile Ardolino.

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In India

Among people born in India, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 523 out of 1,861. Before him are C. N. Annadurai (1909), Margaret Murray (1863), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Kumaragupta I (400), Fatima Jinnah (1893), and Asin (1985). After him are Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Rajinikanth (1950), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Mastani (1699), and Kadambini Ganguly (1861).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 44. Before him are Debendranath Tagore (1817), Sarada Devi (1853), Keshub Chandra Sen (1838), Ramananda (1400), Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921). After him are Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Rambhadracharya (1950), and Derek Prince (1915).

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