Sri Bhagavan is the founder and the Core of the International Vedanta Society. He has created this organisation for one reason; to inspire mankind to strive for the realisation of the highest Truth.
Sri Bhagavan founded the International Vedanta Society in Assam, India in 1989. Since then the organisation has spread internationally inspiring many people to dedicate their life in pursuit of the highest realisation of Truth. Many hundreds of Bhagavan's devotees have had substantial realisations after entering into Samadhi and many thousand more are established upon the path.
Sri Bhagavan, an Enlightened Master of the highest order, gave up His mortal form, entering into Maha Samadhi on May 27 2023. He has many devotees from all parts of the world, at the time of His departure many of His devotees had already attained enlightenment themselves.
Having opened their hearts to Him by simply hearing His voice or reading His words, some pure souls entered directly into Samadhi, resulting in considerable realisation very quickly. Sri Bhagavan has been described as the embodiment of Love and its through the medium of Love that He transmited spirituality. By simply feeling His love His devotees could not help but fall in love, resulting in the dissolution of any individual ego and the highest experience of unity with God. Anything is possible when the arena of sport is not of this world, and so it is that Sri Sri Bhagavan let go of His mortal form, and went beyond all limitation and merged with the Eternal.
Sri Bhagavan has always been and continues to be the very Heart and Soul of the organisation; He continues to live in the hearts of His many devotees who have been inspired to continue His work and expand the organisation, and practice spirituality in a whole-hearted way.
The key to the success of His devotees' practice is that they believe (without doubt) in the words of the ancient scriptures, aligned with the words of Sri Bhagavan. His every utterance is Scripture, because each word came from His realisation. All His words come from that "place" which is beyond all illusion, and He spoke to that "place" inside all who listen to His words.
The International Vedanta Society was established on November 19th, which is the birth anniversary of Sri Bhagavan's Guru, Swami Pavitranandaji, to whom Sri Bhagavan owes His life. In the International Vedanta Society, it is to our Guru, Sri Bhagavan, that we are devoted. Without Whom we would all be attached to the inertia causing fear of the "snake in the rope," meaning investing reality in that which is not.
To read a much more detailed account of Bhagavan's life and His spiritual achievements, please visit our mother website.
Bramacharini Jahnavi Ma is a devotee of Sri Bhagavan, since meeting Him in Varanasi, India in 2011, she is the main contact person for the International Vedanta Society in the UK.
She has worked hard to spread the teachings of Vedanta for the past 13 years both in the UK and abroad, accompanying Sri Bhagavan Himself on many spiritual tours, In India, parts of Europe, UK, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Jahnavi Ma was initiated into the path of Brahmacharya on January 3rd 2024. Embracing a life fully dedicated to the upliftment of the world, and shedding all individuality in the realisation of the Universal Self. Brahmacharya means to dwell with Brahman or God, which in Vedanta refers to That pure, infinite consciousness. Dwelling with Brahman, the mind begins to change, being purified in the depth of meditation, it is no longer attached, nor focussed on individual wellbeing, and spontaneously flows towards the welfare of the world.
Jahnavi Ma is working hard to establish a permanent centre dedicated to spiritual practice, also known as an Ashram, in the UK. She is mostly working in and around London though at times visits other areas of the UK. If you would like to organise a spiritual gathering in your house or at a venue Jahnavi Ma will be happy to come along and share the knowledge and practice which she has received.
To learn more about the ideal of a Brahmacharya or Sanyassin read "Song of a Sanyassin" by Swami Vivekananda, at the bottom of the "Aims and Objectives" page.
A video made with love by one of Sri Bhagavan's Spanish Devotees, Dr Paula Esparza Bofill
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