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Education & Spiritual Training
Swami Sharadananda Sarasvati joined the 12th batch of the Vedanta Course under Swami Iswarananda at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Mumbai in 2002. Prior to joining the Chinmaya Mission, he studied various Indian spiritual disciplines including Vedanta and Yoga from different ashrams and institutions like Ramakrishna Mission, Divine Life Society (Rishikesh), Bihar School of Yoga (Munger), and others. A post-graduate in Advaita Vedanta, he ranked first at the All India level and was awarded a gold medal from the prestigious Sanskrit University, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi.
He assisted Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda as the Sanskrit Acharya in the 13th Batch of the Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Mumbai. A year after this batch, he became the Acharya for the Purohit Course (Batch of 2010) at Chinmaya Gardens, Coimbatore. Being eloquent, erudite and versatile, he was again appointed as Upa-acharya for the 15th Sandeepany Vedanta Course in Mumbai, where he mesmerized students with his evening classes on the Srimad Bhagavatam and also gave them excellent grounding in Sanskrit and Vedic Chanting. Formerly known as Br. Samvid Chaitanya, he received Sannyasa-diksha from Pujya Guruji on Shivaratri, 2014 and joined Chinmaya International Foundation in March 2014.
He is the Academic Council Member of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth. Swamiji is also the Acharya of the one-year residential Vedanta Sadhaka Course, conducted at Adi Sankara Nilayam. He facilitates many camps at CIF based on Sanatana Dharma, Vedanta, Bhakti, and so on. He was also the Acharya of the two-year residential Vedanta Course (2018-2020) in Malayalam at Kerala Sandeepany, Adi Sankara Nilayam.
