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SWAMI JITATMANANDA Bio-data

Swami Jitatmananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna order. A student of science in Presidency College, Kolkata, he later did M.A. in English from Jadavpur University. Thereafter he worked as the headmaster of Ramakrishna Mission`s School at of the Narendrapur, W.B. & Deoghar in Jharkhand and also was the principal of the R.K.Mission`s Science College at Rahara. He acted as the Deputy Director of the R.K.Mission Institute of Foreign Language in Hyderabad. He was the editor of Prabaddha Bharat (1987-1989), the monthly English journal started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896. He was in charge of six massive rehabilitation township prog rams for the cyclone affected people of Andhra Pradesh (1990) and Gujarat (1998).In Surashtra and Bhuj as president of the Ramakrishna Ashram, Rajkot he rook up a massive rehabilitation project worth Rs 3 crore for the quake – affected people of the region in 2001. In 1999 he acted as the chairman of the last session in the National Science Summit held in Bangalore. On invitation, he visited Singapore Malaysia (1994), and again Hong Kong , Australia, Fiji and New Zealand (1995) where he spoke in some forty institutions on Vedanta, Modern Management and Modern Science. In 1998 the Swami went on invitation from the Government of Sri Lanka. In 1999 the Swami was chosen as the chief representative of the Government of India for International Millennium Celebration organized by Chicago Mayor at Chicago. Thereafter he lectured in New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland, Hollywood and other cities. He had interviewed with Physicist John A. Wheeler the maker of America`s Hydrogen bomb in Princeton. In August 2000 he was invited by the United Nation for the Millennium world, where he spoke on the Neo-Hinduism of Sri Ramakrishna in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, New York. In 2004 he was invited to address the scientists` conference in the Paris UNESCO head quarters. In 2004 he was also invited to speak in the Indian forum of Bali University. In 2005 February, he addressed the chamber of commerce in Chittagong, Bangladesh. In 2006 he acted as the first secretary in the Foundation for unity of Religions and Enlightened Citizenship, instituted by APJ Abdul Kalem, President of India. Since 1991 the Swami is addressing corporate houses, industrialists & Youths on the urgent need of spiritual culture for modern management. In 2005 he was appointed as the first secretary of Swami Vivekananda`s ancestral house and cultural centre in Calcutta. In 2010 he was invited to inaugurate the IARF (International Association of Religious Freedom) at Kochi alongwith His Holiness Dalai Lama. At the moment (2011) the Swami is working in the Alambazar Math established by Swami Vivekananda, where the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna did tapasya during 1892 to 1898. It is to this Alambazar Math that Swami Vivekananda entered on the very evening he came back to Calcutta after his western conquest, and he lived here, with occasional gaps from 19th February, 1897 to February 1898. Swamiji is spreading the universal messages of Vedanta, Science and Spirituality as preached and practiced by Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. He holds regular classes on Vedanta & conducts sessions on meditation for public, especially the younger generation.