Swami Turiyananda’s life by Swami Indrashananda
Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha - Mayermandir saradapitha, Howrah, West Bengal, IndiaSwami Turiyananda (1863-1922) was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and one of the earliest monks of the Ramakrishna Order. He was born as Harinath Chattopadhyay in a small village in present-day Bangladesh, and was attracted to spiritual life from a young age. As a young man, Turiyananda traveled to Calcutta (now Kolkata) to …