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Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati passes away at 99

Dwarka-Sharda Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has passed away at Narsinghpur in Madhya Pradesh. He was 99 years old. He breathed his last at the Shridham Jhoteshwar Ashram in Narsinghpur. Swami Swaroopanand was born in Dighori village in Madhya Pradesh’s Siwani district. He left his home at the age of 9. Later, he went to Kashi in Uttar Pradesh, where he gained spiritual enlightenment and religious wisdom from Swami Karpatri Maharaj.

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About the Swami Shankracharya:

  • Swami Shankracharya was also imprisoned during the Indian Independence movement. He also participated in the Quit India movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 and was incarcerated in Varanasi for nine months and in Madhya Pradesh for six months.
  • He was one of the prominent figures in the legal battle for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
  • Swami Swaroopanand was coronated as Shankaracharya in 1981 after his guru, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati, passed away.

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