Saraswati, Swamigal Chandrasekharendra
- Saraswati, Swamigal Chandrasekharendra
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▪ 1995
Indian religious leader (b. May 20, 1894, Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India—d. Jan. 8, 1994, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu), was a revered Hindu sage and a lifelong advocate of religious tolerance. Saraswati, the son of a Brahmin schoolteacher, originally was named Swaminathan. At the age of 13 he was chosen for a religious vocation and taken by a monk to a Hindu
math (
monastery) near Madras. Saraswati was a learned student of the sacred Vedic texts and devoted much of his life to the preservation and teaching of the dharma, the Hindu religious and moral law governing individual conduct. A devout and scholarly man, he spoke a dozen languages, including English, French, Swedish, and several Indian dialects. He also traveled throughout India on foot, visiting pilgrim centres, studying local customs, and preaching nonviolence and religious tolerance among Hindu castes and between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority populations.
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