Swami Nityatmananda was a learned sannyasin-bhakta of Sri Ramakrishna. He served the Ramakrishna Maths and Missions at Calcutta, Madras and Deogarh Vidyapeeth.
Swami Nityatmananda
Since his early youth, he had the privilege of sitting at the feet of M. for several years. During that period, he recorded the talks of M. [Mahendranath Gupta], an intimate house-holder disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and the renowned writer of the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.’
M. heard these readings from his diary in Bengali and made corrections at places. SRI MA DARSHAN, is a compilation of these diaries, which comprises 16 volumes. This work is the result of twenty years of hard and incessant work and tapasya, on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, in the Himalayas.
Says Swami Shraddhananda, Head Monk of the Vedanta Society of Sacramento U.S.A: “It was my great good fortune to know Swami Nityatmananda even when he was Jagabandhu Babu. How he served the venerable sage day after day! He seemed to be a constant shadow by the side of M.” It was during that period that Swami Nityatmananda recorded the talks of M.
Adds Swami Shraddhananda, “One wonders at the unusual capacity of Swami Nityatmananda in recording these day to day conversations of this Vyasadeva of our time – M. – and later developing his notes into his masterly work. One cannot fail to discover the special training he received from Shri M. himself in this direction while he was serving as a teacher in M.’s school and living with him for years.”
Swami Nityatmananda was born May 29, 1893. He quit his mortal frame on July 12, 1975.
