Swami Paramarthananda
Swami Paramarthananda studied in Sandeepany Sadhanalaya of Chinmaya Mission. Took Sanyasa from Swami Dayananda (arsha vidya). He is devoted to both Masters – Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Dayananda. Swami later started taking Advaita Vedanta shastra classes in Chennai.
Swamiji was born on 18-05-1953 to Subramania Iyer and Parvathy in Palakkad, Kerala. He grew up with three older siblings and had his early schooling and college education in Palakkad, his home town.
In the year 1976 Swamiji joined a three year course in Vedānta offered by his Guru Swami Dayananda Saraswati at Sandeepany Sadhanālaya, Mumbai. There, he studied Sanskrit and the Sastras like the Bhagavad Gītā, principal Upaniṣads, Brahmasūtras and several Prakaraṇa-granthas. After the completion of his course he moved to Chennai as a Brahmachāri on the directive of his Guru and started teaching Vedānta. He received Sannyāsa from his Guru in the year 1984 and continues to live in Chennai and teach at various centres in the city.
Audio / Text:
- Audio: Sastraprakasika (iOS / Android) — 6000+ hours of recordings.
- Text: Bhagavad Gita Way (iOS / Android) — Chat via GPT4o with 15,000 pages of Swami's transcript. Only of it's kind.
Links found where can access Swamiji recordings:
- VedantaHub offers categorized audio recording downloads
- Books & Audio Transcriptions
- Blog which summarizes Paramarthananda's discourses
- Upanishads & Short Talks