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| Born | Rakhturam |
| Died | 24 April 1920 Benaras, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
| Other names | Latu Maharaj |
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| Religion | Hinduism |
| Philosophy | Advaita Vedanta |
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| Guru | Ramakrishna |
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Adbhutananda (died 1920), born Rakhturam, was a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna, a Yogi of nineteenth century Bengal. He is familiarly known as Latu Maharaj among the followers of Ramakrishna.[1] Adbhutananda was the first monastic disciple to come to Ramakrishna.[2] While most of Ramakrishna's direct disciples came from the Bengali intelligentsia, Adbhutananda's lack of formal education made him unique among them.[3][4] He was a servant boy of a devotee of Ramakrishna, and he later became his monastic disciple. Though unlettered, Adbhutananda was considered as a monk with great spiritual insight by Ramakrishna's followers, and Vivekananda regarded him as "the greatest miracle of Ramakrishna".[5][6]
- ^ Christopher Isherwood (1945). Vedanta for the Western World. Vedanta Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-87481-000-4.
- ^ "Swami Adbhutananda". Prabuddha Bharata. Advaita Ashrama: 259. 1972.
- ^ Swami Chetanananda (1998). "Swami Adbhutananda". God Lived with Them. Advaita Ashrama. p. 393.
- ^ Mukherjee, Jayasree (May 2004). "Sri Ramakrishna's Impact on Contemporary Indian Society". Prabuddha Bharata. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
An analysis of the class composition of the early admirers and followers of Ramakrishna reveals that most of them came from the Western-educated middle class of the Bengali society, Latu (later Adbhutananda) or Rasik Hadi being exceptions.
- ^ Swami Gambhirananda (1967). The Apostles of Sri Ramakrishna. p. 271.
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