Satyananda Giri
| Satyananda Giri | |
|---|---|
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | Manamohan Mazumder 17 November 1896 Vikrampur, Bengal, British India |
| Died | 2 August 1971 (aged 74) |
| Parents | Mohini Mohan Majumdar (Father) Tarabasini Devi (Mother) |
| Religious career | |
| Guru | Yukteswar Giri |
Satyananda Giri (Bengali: স্বামী সত্যানন্দ গীরি) (17 November 1896 - 2 August 1971) was an Indian monk and Yukteswar Giri’s chief monastic disciple in India.
Acharya Swami Satyananda Giri Maharaj (family name Manamohan Mazumder) was born to Mohinimohan Mazumder and Tarabasini Devi at Malkha Nagar of Bikrampore, undivided Bengal, currently Bangladesh, on November 17, 1896.
Later, his father Mohinimohan studied at the Government Art College of Calcutta and the family moved to Calcutta. Mohinimohan was one of the founding fathers of Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School. As a result, the Mazumder family used to live on the school premises.
Across from the school is Garpar Road, where Paramahansa Yogananda (family name Mukunda Lal Ghosh) used to live with his parents. Satyananda met Yogananda when he was 11 years and Yogananda was 14 years old. They were boyhood best friends, brother disciples and colleagues.
Mohinimohan had seven children; Satyananda was the eldest then there was: Nripendramohan Mazumder (Mukul), Khirodmohan Mazumder, Saileshmohan Mazumder (Suddhananda Giri), Nalinimohan Mazumder (Nanimohan, a journalist), Gopimohan Mazumder, the youngest son and Sarjubala, the only daughter (disciple of Swami Abhedananda who was the disciple of Ramakrishna).
Satyananda studied at the Mitra Institution of Calcutta and he knew Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi, Oriya (learned while he was living at Puri with his Guru Yukteswar Giri), and English.
He graduated with a B.A. with honors in Philosophy from the University of Calcutta. He then entered into the Swami Order. One of his school classmates and a good friend was Ananda Mohan Lahiri, the bachelor grandson of Lahiri Mahasaya. They later worked together at Yogananda's Ranchi school.
Satyananda was a foremost disciple of Yukteswar Giri in India and of Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogananda began a school with seven children at Dihika, a small country site in Bengal, India. A year later in 1918, Sir Manindra Chandra Nundy funded the school and it was moved to Ranchi, India. Yogananda called the school Brahmacharya Vidyalaya. Satyananda joined the Ranchi Brahmacharya School which Yogananda started and his close friends, Dhirananda and Satyananda supported.
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