Swami Prabhavananda

Swami Prabhavananda
At the Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple
Personal
Born	(1893-12-26)26 December 1893 Surmanagar Village, Bankura district, Bengal Presidency, British Raj
Died	4 July 1976(1976-07-04) (aged 82) Vedanta Temple, Vedanta Place, Hollywood
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	American
Known for	Translator of the Bhagavad Gita (with Christopher Isherwood) and the Upanishads (with Fredrick Manchester), author of the Spiritual Heritage of India
Occupation	Monk, writer, and teacher
Organization
Founder of	[[ Main article: Vedanta Society Of Southern California, Ramakrishna Monastery |Vedanta Society of Southern California]]
Religious career
Guru	Swami Brahmananda
Disciples Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood

Swami Prabhavananda (December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher. He moved to America in 1923 to take up the role of assistant minister in the San Francisco Vedanta Society. In 1928 he was the minister of a small group in Portland, OR, but in 1930 he founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California. The Swami spent the rest of his life there, writing and collaborating with some of the most distinguished authors and intellectuals of the time, including Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Gerald Heard.^[1]