Swarupananda

Swarupananda (28 December 1886 – 21 April 1984) was a direct monastic disciple of Vivekananda and the first president of the Advaita Ashrama, set up by Vivekananda in 1899 at Mayavati, near Champawat. The ashram is a branch of the religious monastic order, Ramakrishna Math, also set up by Vivekananda on the teachings of his guru Ramakrishna.
Swarupananda remained as editor of Prabuddha Bharata, an English-language monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, when it shifted base from Chennai in 1898 and remained so till 1906.Vivekananda exclaimed to Sara Bull and other friends about the young disciple whom he had initiated into the monastic order, “we have made an acquisition today.”