{"id":14492,"date":"2015-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/01\/swami-dayananda-saraswati-1930-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"swami-dayananda-saraswati-1930-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/01\/swami-dayananda-saraswati-1930-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1930-2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/culture\/obituary-swami-dayananda-saraswati-1930-2015\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, September 26, 2015 (Swarajyamag by A. Rambachan): In 1973, after graduating from the University of the West Indies, I made a long journey from my home in Trinidad to study at the Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, the ashram in Mumbai, India, founded by Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993). This was my first visit to India, the birthplace of my Hindu ancestors. It was a time when few from my country traveled to India.<\/p>\n<p>I was a teenager when Swami Chinmayananda first visited Trinidad in 1965 and I avidly read his available writings. In 1969, I wrote to him for permission to join his a rama. His sage advice, after rebuking me for my undated letter, was to complete my college education before coming to Sandeepany. In 1973, Sandeepany Sadhanalaya launched its first intensive multi-year course of study in Vedanta and Sanskrit. By then, I had fulfilled Swamiji&#8217;s advice and I was accepted as his student.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai was drenched in monsoon rains when I made my way from the airport to Sandeepany. I was introduced to Swami Dayananda Saraswati, who I learned was the principal acharya and the designer of the course of study that I came to pursue. Few teachers have fulfilled their obligations to their tradition as Swami Dayananda Saraswati did. He has left our world richer with teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anantanand Rambachan is Professor of Religion at Saint Olaf college, Minnesota, USA. For more of his tribute see source above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, September 26, 2015 (Swarajyamag by A. Rambachan): In 1973, after graduating from the University of the West,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}