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AUTOBIOGRAPHYOF

SWAMY JNANANANDA

Translated by :

Dr. Datla Umapati Raju

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OFSWAMY JNANANANDA

Published by

The Saint and the ScientistSwami JNANANANDA TRUST

Sri Rama Jnana Mandir

Goraganamudi,

Bhimvaram (M), W.G. Dist. (A.P.)

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Reprinted : (2013)

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Swami with his father Bhupathiraju Rama Raju

A rare classical saint and a great modern scientist. One of the greatest

personages the world can truly be proud of has been Swami Jnanananda. Born on

5th December,1896 in Goraganamudi in West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh,

India, the son of Bhupathiraju Rama Raju and Sita Devi, Swami Jnanananda leftfor the Himalayas when he was 21. There he practiced yoga, studied Vedic litera-

ture and transcended into being a legendary saint. He wrote poems, commentar-

ies on classical Vedic philosophy, even original masterpieces like Purna Sutras.

In 1927, he left India for Germany where he lectured on Vedic Philosophy.

However, he used his stay there to study mathematics and theoretical and experi-

mental physics at the College of Science and Technology, Dresden. He then took

up research in High Tension and X-Ray Physics at the Charles Universiy, Prague,

where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science.

At the beginning of World War II, he left Germany and reached England

where he joined the University of Liverpool and did remarkable researches in

Nuclear Physics, Spectroscopy of Beta-radiations. He was awarded Ph.D there.

During this period, he became Fellow of Londons famous Institute of Physics and

wrote a book on 'High Vacuum'.

At the peak of World War II, he was invited to the University of Michigan,

Ann Arbor in the United States where he carried out imporatant research work in

Nuclear Physics for three years.

He came back to India in 1947 and joined the National Physical Labora-

tory in Delhi. In 1954 he came to the Andhra University and did outstanding

research work in Nuclear Physics. He pased away in 1969.


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