Swami Tyagananda

Swami Tyagananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, is the head of the Vedanta Society in Boston, and is the Hindu Chaplain at MIT and Harvard. Prior to coming to the United States, Swami Tyagananda was for eleven years the editor of the English language journal "Vedanta Kesari" based in Chennai, India. He has presented papers at academic conferences and he gives lectures and classes at the Vedanta Society as well as at MIT, Harvard, and other colleges in and around Boston. Swami Tyagananda has written, translated and edited twelve books, including "Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions" (1991), "Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life"(1996) and "The Essence of the Gita"(2000), "Interpreting Ramakrishna" (2011), "Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga" (2013), "Knowing the Knower: A Manual of Jnana Yoga" (2017), and his latest "Looking Deeply: Vivekacūḍāmaṇi of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya."

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