Pravrajika Bharatiprana (July 1894 Guptipara,

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

– 30 January 1973

Sri Sarada Math Sri Sarada Math is a convent named after Sri Sarada Devi, the consort of Sri Ramakrishna, founded on 2 December 1954. Headquartered at Dakshineshwar, Kolkata, the organisation has branch centres in other parts of India, and in Sri Lanka and Austr ...

Dakshineswar Dakshineswar is a neighbourhood in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Autho ...

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

) was the first president of the Hindu religious organization

A Blessed Life, Biography of Pravrajika Bharatiprana (Pravrajika Jnanadaprana, Sri Saradaa Math: Dakshineswar, 2012), p.133 and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission, serving in that capacity from 1954 to 1973. Named Parul by her parents, she was given the name Sarala when she left home. She was a disciple of

Sarada Devi Sri Sarada Devi ( Bengali: সারদা দেবী; ; 22 December 1853 – 20 July 1920), born Kshemankari / Thakurmani / Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, was the wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth-century Hindu ...

, and served her for many years. She received the vows of

brahmacharya ''Brahmacharya'' (; Sanskrit: Devanagari: ब्रह्मचर्य) is the concept within Indian religions that literally means "conduct consistent with Brahman" or "on the path of Brahman". Brahmacharya, a discipline of controlling ...

and

sannyasa ''Sannyasa'' (), sometimes spelled ''sanyasa'', is the fourth stage within the Hinduism, Hindu system of four life stages known as ''ashrama (stage), ashramas'', the first three being ''brahmacharya'' (celibate student), ''Gṛhastha, grihast ...

from Swami Shankarananda in 1953 and 1959. She died on 30 January 1973 at

References

''Pravrajika Bharatiprana'' (Dakshineswar: Sri Sarada Math, 1992)

External links

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1894 births 1973 deaths Women educators from West Bengal {{India-reli-bio-stub