{"id":15577,"date":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/27\/swami-atmasthananda-who-encouraged-pm-modi-to-join-politics-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","slug":"swami-atmasthananda-who-encouraged-pm-modi-to-join-politics-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/27\/swami-atmasthananda-who-encouraged-pm-modi-to-join-politics-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Atmasthananda, Who Encouraged PM Modi to Join Politics, Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/monk-who-encouraged-pm-narendra-modi-to-take-politics-passes-away\/articleshow\/59206799.cms?from=mdr\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA INDIA, June 18, 2017 (Times of India): Swami Atmasthananda Maharaj, 99, president of the Belur-headquartered Ramkrishna Math and Mission, also believed to have initiated Prime Minister Narendra Modi into politics, died of age-related ailments in Kolkata&#8217;s Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan on Sunday evening. The monk had been in the hospital since February 2015 due to health issues. He had been on ventilation since Saturday night after a sharp decline in his condition.<\/p>\n<p>Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the ailing Maharaj hours before his death, later condoled the passing away of the revered monk. &#8220;Saddened that Rev Swami Atmasthanandaji, president, Ramkrishna Math &#038; Mission passed away today at Seva Pratishthan. I paid my last visit to him this afternoon, A life of outstanding social &#038; religious service. This is an irreparable loss to mankind,&#8221; Mamata Banerjee said. Born on May 10, 1919 at Sabajpur, near Dhaka in the then undivided Bengal, the Swami received spiritual initiation in 1938 from Swami Vijnananda, a disciple of Ramkrishna. He joined the Ramkrishna Order at Belur at the age of 22.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KOLKATA INDIA, June 18, 2017 (Times of India): Swami Atmasthananda Maharaj, 99, president of the Belur-headquartered Ramkrishna Math and,&#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-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","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=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}