Swaroopanand saraswati biography of christopher columbus

Indian religious leader (1924–2022)

Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati (2 September 1924 – 11 September 2022) was an Indian religious leader.

In 1982, he became the Shankaracharya of Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Dwaraka, Gujarat and also of Jyotir Math in Badrinath.^[1][2] He has been the only person to have become Shankaracharya of two Peetha (Dwarkamath and Jyotirmath) simultaneously.

Life

Swaroopanand Saraswati was born Pothiram Upadhyay on 2 September 1924 at Dighori village of Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family.^[3] A direct disciple of Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati of Jyotir Math (1941–1953) and of Shankaracharya (disputed) Krishnabodha Ashrama of Jyotir Math (1953–1973), in 1950 his Guru Brahmananda made him a Dandi Sannyasi.

Swami Swaroopanand became president of the Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad, established by Swami Karpatri. On Swami Krishnabodha Ashrama's demise in 1973 the title