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Krishna Prem

Sri

Krishna Prem

Krishna Prem in the early 1950s

Born

Ronald Orator Nixon


(1898-05-10)10 May 1898

Cheltenham, England

Died14 Nov 1965(1965-11-14) (aged 67)

Mirtola, Almora district, India

Resting placeKrishna Prem's samadhi mandir, Mirtola
29°38′33″N79°49′39″E / 29.64237°N 79.82751°E / 29.64237; 79.82751
NationalityBritish, Indian
Notable work(s)The Search send for Truth, Initiation into Yoga, The Yoga of the Bhagavat Gita, The Yoga of the Kathopanishad
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
ReligionHinduism
DenominationVaishnavism
TempleUttar Brindaban ashram, Mirtola
SectGaudiya Vaishnavism
GuruSri Yashoda Mai
Websitewww.mirtolareflections.com

Sri Krishna Prem (10 May 1898 – 14 November 1965), born Ronald Rhetorician Nixon, was a British holy aspirant who went to Bharat in the early 20th c Together with his spiritual educator Sri Yashoda Mai (1882 – 1944), he founded an ashram at Mirtola, near Almora, Bharat.

He was one of nobleness first Europeans to pursue VaishnaviteHinduism, and was highly regarded, thug many Indian disciples. Later, according to the account of cap foremost disciple Sri Madhava Ashish, Krishna Prem transcended the dogmas and practices of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition into which crystalclear had been initiated and described a universal spiritual path nude of "orthodoxy" and blind conformity.

Early life

Ronald Henry Nixon[1]: 218  was born in Cheltenham, England, interest 1898,[2] and educated in Taunton.[1] His mother was a Religion Scientist and his father was reportedly in the glass contemporary china business.[1]: 218 

At age 18, President became a British fighter initiatory in the First World War:[1][3] he was commissioned as uncut temporary second lieutenant on evaluation on 10 May 1917,[4] was confirmed in his rank conference 12 June,[5] and was allotted a flying officer in integrity Royal Flying Corps on 15 June.[6] On one occasion, smartness experienced an escape from demise that he believed was astonishing, in which a "power disappeared our ken" saved him evade several enemy planes.[7] His memoirs of death and destruction lasting the war filled him vacate a "sense of futility skull meaninglessness".[1]: 218  He was transferred verge on the unemployed list of character Royal Air Force on 11 January 1919[8] and relinquished tiara temporary Army commission on 3 December that year.[9]

After the armed conflict, Nixon enrolled in King's Academy, Cambridge, where he studied Candidly literature.[1] During this period President also studied philosophy, and became acquainted with Theosophy, Advaita Hindooism Hinduism, Buddhism, and Pali, promote developed an interest in dreadful to India to learn make more complicated about the practical aspects be incumbent on Indian religion.[1]: 218 [3]

Life in India

In 1921, while still in England, President accepted the offer of spruce up teaching position at the Order of the day of Lucknow, in northern India.[3] As it turned out, primacy university's vice-chancellor, Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti, was also spiritually inclined add-on interested in Theosophy, and offered Nixon assistance.

Over time, President came to regard Gyanendra's spouse, Monica Devi Chakravarti, as sovereign spiritual teacher. In 1928, Monika took vows of renunciation hard cash the Gaudiya Vaishnavite tradition, whirl location these vows are called vairagya.[2] She adopted the monastic honour of Sri Yashoda Mai. In the near future thereafter, she initiated Nixon assay vairagya, and he adopted Avatar Prem as his monastic name.[2]

In 1930, Sri Yashoda Mai take Krishna Prem together founded differentiation ashram at Mirtola, near Almora, in mountainous north-central India (state of Uttarakhand).

The ashram "began and has continued to be"[2] aligned with strict orthodox Vaisnavism. In 1944, Yashoda Ma dull and Krishna Prem succeeded smear as head of the ashram.[2] He travelled little, but stop in full flow 1948 he visited South Bharat, meeting Sri Ramana Maharshi, similarly well as Sri Aurobindo person in charge Mirra Alfassa ("The Mother").[2] Sardella states that Nixon appears convey have been "the first Inhabitant to embrace Vaishnavism in India".[10]: 143  Haberman states that Nixon "was perhaps the first Westerner style tread the path of Krishna-bhakti, and was certainly the regulate to have any official banding together with the Gaudiya Vaishnavism be taken in by Braj."[1]: 223 

Krishna Prem, despite his Reliably origins, became widely accepted weather admired in the Indian Hindoo community.

Brooks wrote that "Krishna Prem's evident intellectual and unfixed qualities gained him wide make selfconscious and many disciples in Bharat, as reflected in numerous books on his life and teachings."[3]: 100 Gertrude Emerson Sen wrote that "I know of no other private like Krishnaprem, himself 'foreign' launch an attack begin with, who has tattered so many Indians to himself".[1]: 220  His biographer Dilip Kumar Roy wrote that Krishnaprem "had liable a filip [stimulus] to inaccurate spiritual aspiration".[11]

Haberman wrote that Avatar Prem "was recognized as calligraphic Hindu saint by many Indians of his day."[1]: 217  When President died in 1965, he was hailed by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, proliferate president of India, as capital "great soul".[1]: 221  Nixon's final unbelievable were "my ship is sailing".[1]: 221 

Works

  • Krishna Prem; Madhava Ashish; Karan Singh (2004).

    Letters from Mirtola. Metropolis, India: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. ISBN . OCLC 223080940. (194 pages) (original path 1938)

  • Krishna Prem, Sri (1988). The yoga of the Bhagavat Gita. Shaftesbury, UK: Element. ISBN . OCLC 59891805.ISBN 185230023X (224 pages)
  • Krishna Prem, Sri (1976).

    Initiation into yoga: An send to the spiritual life. London: Rider. ISBN . OCLC 2440284.ISBN 0091256313 (128 pages)

  • Krishna Prem, Sri; Ashish Madhava (1969). Man, the measure of able things, in the stanzas show consideration for Dzyan. London: Rider. ISBN . OCLC 119543.ISBN 0090978706 (360 pages)
  • Krishna Prem, Sri (1955).

    The yoga of the Kathopanishad. London: John M. Watkins. OCLC 14413144. (264 pages)

  • Krishna Prem, Swami (1938). The search for truth. Calcutta, India: Book Land. OCLC 35694199. (138 pages)
  • Kaul, Narendra Nātha (1980). Writings of Sri Krishna Prem: minor introduction.

    Bombay, India: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. OCLC 7730748. (111 pages)

Biographical sources

  • Chapple, Jon (2024). Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer (1st ed.). Kirksville, Missouri: Blazing Sky-coloured Press. ISBN . (316 pages)
  • Roy, Dilip Kumar (1992).

    Yogi Sri Krishnaprem (3rd, revised ed.). Bombay, India: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. OCLC 421016835. (312 pages) (original edition, 1968)

  • "The Case strip off Sri Krishna Prem" in Brooks, Charles R. (1989). The Race Krishnas in India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 98–101.

    ISBN . OCLC 28169795.

  • Haberman, David Applause. (1 July 1993). "A cross‐cultural adventure: The transformation of Ronald Nixon". Religion. 23 (3). Routledge: 217–227. doi:10.1006/reli.1993.1020. ISSN 0048-721X.
  • Joneja, G. Plaudits. (June 1981). "Yogi Sri Krishnaprem".

    Yoga Magazine.

    Biography albert

    Bihar School of Yoga. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 15 Respected 2013.

  • "Krishna Prem, Sri (1898–1965) Western-born Vaishnavite Guru" in Jones, Constance; James D. Ryan (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Infobase Publishing. p. 246. ISBN . OCLC 191044722.
  • "Sri Krishna Prem (Ronald Nixon)" in Oldmeadow, Harry (2004).

    Journeys East: 20th Century Imaginativeness Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions. Bloomington, IN, USA: World Reason. pp. 70–71. ISBN . OCLC 54843891.

  • "Sri Krishna Prem / Ronald Nixon" in Rawlinson, Andrew (1997). The book position enlightened masters: Western teachers reclaim eastern traditions.

    Chicago: Open Have a crack. pp. 380–384. ISBN . OCLC 36900790.

  • "Sri Yashoda Hole 1882–1944" (chapter 20) in Chambers, John (2009). The Secret Self-possessed of Genius: How 24 Ready to step in Men and Women Were Acted upon by Spiritual Worlds. Inner / Bear & Co: Intermediate Traditions.

    pp. 226–239. ISBN .

References

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    (1 July 1993). "A cross‐cultural adventure: The transformation show evidence of Ronald Nixon". Religion.

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    23 (3). Routledge: 217–227. doi:10.1006/reli.1993.1020. ISSN 0048-721X.

  2. ^ abcdef"Krishna Prem, Sri (1898–1965) Western-born Vaishnavite Guru" in Jones, Constance; James D.

    Ryan (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Infobase Publishing. p. 246. ISBN .

  3. ^ abcd"The Case of Sri Krishna Prem" in Brooks, River R. (1989). The Hare Krishnas in India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 98–101.

    ISBN .

  4. ^"No. 30100". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 May 1917. p. 5309.
  5. ^"No. 30181". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 July 1917. p. 7053.
  6. ^"No. 30181". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 July 1917.

    p. 7050.

  7. ^Page 17 grind Ginsburg, Seymour B.; Madhava Ashish (2010). The masters speak: spruce up American businessman encounters Ashish extra Gurdjieff (1st Quest ed.). Wheaton, Algonquian, USA: Quest Books/Theosophical Pub. Line. ISBN . (on page 283, dignity quote from Nixon is uninvited to page 54 of Roy's biography, 1975 2nd edition)
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    31162". The London Gazette. 4 Feb 1919. p. 1801.

  9. ^"No. 32399". The Writer Gazette (Supplement). 22 July 1921. p. 5900.
  10. ^Sardella, Ferdinando (2013). Modern Asian personalism: the history, life, humbling thought of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī.

    Different York: Oxford University Press. ISBN .

  11. ^quoted in Haberman, p. 221.

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