Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari

About Author writing Living with My Himalayan Master: Sri Sri Bhajan Brahmachari - A Biography

Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari (Bodhi) was born on 10 May, 1949 in Calcutta, India. He left his job as a lecturer of Economics at a college in Andhra Pradesh at the young age of 26 to join his Guru’s ashram in Calcutta and embrace the life of a monastic at the feet of his beloved Master. Back in college, he was the most loved teacher who turned even the most notorious illiterate rogues of students into college toppers through the power of his love. Often during class, he would unconsciously start giving discourses of Vedanta, even as the students listened to him spell bound.

At his Guru’s ashram, he found himself in a situation which was like crocodil

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