Swami Karpatri
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Swami Karpatri (Swāmi Karpātrī; 1907–1982; born as Har Narayan Ojha in a village called Bhatni of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition.[1]
Life
He was a disciple of Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.[2] He was also the founder of Dharma Sangha in Varanasi where he spent most of his life. He was a teacher in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy.According to French indologist, Alain Daniélou, Karpatri initiated him into Shaivite Hinduism.[3]
Politics
In 1948, Swami Karpatri founded the Ram Rajya Parishad, a traditionalist Hindu party. He led a movement against the Hindu Code Bill but he was unsuccessful in blocking it.[4]
Further reading
Life history of Swami Karpatri of Banaras
Lutgendorf, Philip. 1991. The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 384–387.
References
- ^ Swami Karpatri The Linga and the great goddess Indica bolls, ISBN 818656988X
- ^ Rama, Swami (1999) Himalayan Institute, Living With the Himalayan Masters, page 247
- ^ Unknown author, Portrait of Alain Danielou Official web site of Alain Danielou, retrieved Sept 8, 2012
- ^ Hindu code bill and Dr.B.R.Ambedkar by Sohanlal Shastri
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