PHILOSOPHER

Chinmayananda Saraswati

1916 - 1993

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Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Cinmayānanda Sarasvatī),also known as Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (born Balakrishna Menon; 8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993), was a Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher. In 1951, he founded Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, in order to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chinmayananda Saraswati has received more than 919,074 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Chinmayananda Saraswati is the 1,236th most popular philosopher, the 878th most popular biography from India and the 47th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 1,236 out of 1,267. Before him are Ruth Barcan Marcus, Raya Dunayevskaya, Norman Malcolm, Christine Korsgaard, Julia Annas, and Will Kymlicka. After him are Stephen Walt, James Dunn, William Ames, David Benatar, Peter Kreeft, and Richard Crashaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 288. Before him are Bohumil Modrý, Vivian McGrath, Clare Dennis, Walker Percy, Don Keefer, and Martha Raye. After him are Rochelle Hudson, Ruth Warrick, Daws Butler, Günther Ortmann, Gaylord Nelson, and Kanan Devi. Among people deceased in 1993, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 292. Before him are Ben Klassen, Wallace Stegner, Michael Clarke, Penaia Ganilau, Glenn Corbett, and Clifford Jordan. After him are Jón Páll Sigmarsson, James Bridges, Leon Ames, Hap Sharp, Arnie Oliver, and Karl Gordon Henize.

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In India

Among people born in India, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 878 out of 1,861. Before him are Kanu Sanyal (1928), P. Bhanumathi (1925), Arun Jaitley (1952), Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Mahendra Kapoor (1934). After him are Annapurna Devi (1927), Nitin Gadkari (1957), Gita Mehta (1943), Krishan Kant (1927), Sugata Mitra (1952), and Mah Laqa Bai (1768).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Chinmayananda Saraswati ranks 47. Before him are Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Keshub Chandra Sen (1838), Derek Prince (1915), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874).

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