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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anirvan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anirvan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anirvan > Source revision: 1335900691 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Indian Hindu monk, writer and philosopher}} {{About|the Hindu scholar|other people with this name|Anirban}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sri Anirvan | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1896|7|8}} | birth_place = [Mymensingh](/source/Mymensingh), [Bengal Presidency](/source/Bengal_Presidency), British India | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1978|5|31|1896|7|8}} | death_place = [Calcutta](/source/Calcutta), [West Bengal](/source/West_Bengal), India | occupation = Monk, philosopher, scholar, writer | language = [Bengali](/source/Bengali_language), [Sanskrit](/source/Sanskrit) | awards = [Rabindra Puraskar](/source/Rabindra_Puraskar) | nationality = Indian | notableworks = ''Veda Mimamsa'', ''Gayatri Mandala of the Rig Veda'' | period = [Bengal Renaissance](/source/Bengal_Renaissance) | website = {{URL|www.haimavati-anirvan.org}} }} [Sri](/source/Sri) ''' Anirvan''' (8 July 1896 – 31 May 1978), born ''' Narendra Chandra Dhar''', was an Indian [Hindu](/source/Hindu) [monk](/source/sannyasa), writer and philosopher.''Buddhiyoga of the Gita and other Essays''. by Anirvan. Samata Books, 1984 (paperback 1991). {{ISBN|978-0-8364-1120-1}}. [http://www.bagchee.com/books.php?id=41833 at Bagchee.com, accessed 1 June 2008] and {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209050942/http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/IDH620/ |date=9 February 2011 |title=''Buddhiyoga'' jacket copy, accessed June 1, 2008 }} Widely known as a scholar,''To Live Within: A Woman's Spiritual Pilgrimage in a Himalayan Hermitage''. By Lizelle Reymond. (Translated from the French original ''La Vie dans la vie'' by Nancy Pearson and Stanley Spiegelberg.) Morning Light Press, 2007. {{ISBN|1-59675-016-2}}. [http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/book_details.php?BID=101&authID=21&lang=English Gurdjieff-internet.com, accessed 1 June 2008] his principal works were a Bengali translation of [Sri Aurobindo](/source/Sri_Aurobindo)'s [''The Life Divine''](/source/Collected_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo) and the three-volume treatise ''Veda Mimamsa''. ==Early life and sannyas== Sri Anirvan was born on 8 July 1896 in the town of [Mymensingh](/source/Mymensingh), then a part of [British India](/source/British_Raj) and now in [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh). His birth name was Narendrachandra Dhar. He was the son of Rajchandra Dhar, a doctor, and Sushila Devi.''Antaryoga'' ({{langx|bn| অন্তর্যোগ}}). Kolkata: Sri Goutam Dharmapal, Haimavati Prakashani, 1997 (Bengali year 1404), 3rd edition. He was a spiritually and intellectually inclined child, who by age 11 had memorised the ''Astadhyayi'' of [Pāṇini](/source/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini) and the [Bhagavad Gita](/source/Bhagavad_Gita). He was named '''Baroda Brahmachari''' after going through the [sacred thread](/source/sacred_thread) ceremony. He also won a state scholarship as a teen and completed university IA and BA degrees at the [University of Dhaka](/source/University_of_Dhaka) and an [MA](/source/Master_of_Arts) from the [Sanskrit College](/source/Sanskrit_College) of the [University of Calcutta](/source/University_of_Calcutta). At 16, he joined the [Assam Bangiya Saraswata Math](/source/Shanti_Ashram) (the ''[ashram](/source/ashram)''), located in the village of Kokilamukh near [Jorhat](/source/Jorhat) in Assam. He was a disciple of the ashram's founder, [Paramahansa Srimat Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Dev](/source/Swami_Nigamananda), who initiated him into [sannyas](/source/Sannyasa). Anirvan's new monastic name was '''Nirvanananda Saraswati'''. He taught at the ashram school and edited its monthly magazine ''Aryyadarpan''. ==Scholar and writer== Some time after 1930, Nirvanananda changed his name to '''Anirvan''' and ceased to wear the ochre [swami](/source/swami)'s robes. He travelled widely in North India, eventually returning to Assam and establishing an ashram in [Kamakhya](/source/Kamakhya_Temple) near [Guwahati](/source/Guwahati). However, he continued to travel. In the 1940s, he lived in [Lohaghat](/source/Lohaghat) and [Almora](/source/Almora). Madame Lizelle Reymond documented some of this period in ''My Life with a Brahmin Family'' (1958) and ''To Live Within'' (1971). During this time, Sri Anirvan translated [Sri Aurobindo](/source/Sri_Aurobindo)'s [''The Life Divine''](/source/Collected_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo) into [Bengali](/source/Bengali_language) (as ''Divya Jeevan Prasanga''); this book, his first, was published in two volumes between 1948 and 1951. In 1953, Sri Anirvan moved to [Shillong](/source/Shillong) in Assam. His reputation as a [Vedic](/source/Vedas) scholar grew; and he wrote both in Bengali (chiefly) and in English (he was also fluent in French) on various aspects of [Hindu philosophy](/source/Hindu_philosophy) (particularly [Samkhya](/source/Samkhya), the [Upanishad](/source/Upanishad)s, the [Gita](/source/Bhagavad_Gita) and [Vedanta](/source/Vedanta)) and the parallels between [Rigvedic](/source/Rigveda), [Puranic](/source/Puranas), [Tantric](/source/Tantra) and [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism) thought. His [magnum opus](/source/Masterpiece), ''Veda Mimamsa'', was published in three volumes in 1961, 1965 and 1970. This work won him the [Rabindra award](/source/Rabindra_Puraskar). Though Sri Anirvan was initiated as a monk, he studied subjects such as [Marxism](/source/Marxism) {{Citation needed|date=November 2017}} and gardening; yet he called himself a simple [baul](/source/baul) {{Citation needed | reason=citation known to exist, but not in English | date=November 2017}}. Sri Anirvan made his final move, to [Calcutta](/source/Kolkata), in 1965. He died on 31 May 1978, after a six-year illness. ==Works== # Aditi (Bengali: অন্তর্যোগ). Kolkata: Sri Gautam Dharmapal, Haimavati Prakashani Trust. # Anirvan Aloya Patanjala Yoga-Prasanga; Edited & Translated by Sudipta Munsi; Calcutta: Prachi Publications. (Bengali). Published 2006. # Antaryoga (Bengali: অন্তর্যোগ). Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust, 1997 (Bengali year 1404), 3rd edition. # Aranyak (Bengali: অারণ্যক). Writings as Editor of Nagamananda Ashram magazine. Halishar: Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math. # Bichitra (Bengali: বিচিত্রা). Kolkata: Smt Ramaa Choudhury, Haimavati-Anirban Trust, 1993. # Buddhi Yoga Of The Gita And Other essays.(Original in English.) Biblia Impex Pvt. Ltd. 1991, Madras, Samata Books. # Dakshinamurti (Bengali: দক্ষিণামূর্তি). 1969. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay,. # Divya Jeevan (Translation Into Bengali Of "The Life Divine" by Sri Aurobindo. দিব্য জীবন প্রসঙ্গ).Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Originally published 1948–51). # Divya Jeevan Prasanga (Bengali: দিব্য জীবন প্রসঙ্গ). Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, 2000 (fourth edition). (Originally published 1958). # Gayatri Mandala Volumes 1–6. (Bengali). Undated. # Gitanuvachan (Bengali: গীতানুবচন). Vol I – 1968, Vol II – 1969, Vol III – 1970. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay. # Inner Yoga (English) Translated by Simanta Narayan Chatterjee from "Antar Yoga." New Delhi: Voice of India. # Kaveri (Collection Of Poems) (Bengali: কাবেরী).1976. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir # Lecture On the Immortality Of the Body in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (Bengali:).1970. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir # Letters From A Baul, Life Within Life. (original in English). 1983. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir. # Pather Katha (Bengali). Published 2008. # Pather Sathi (Bengali: পথের সাথী). Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada Saraswati, Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 1980. (Three volumes). Kolkata: Haimavati Anirvan Trust. # Patralekha (Bengali: পত্রলেখা). Vol I – 1968, Vol II – 1969, Sreerampore, Hooghly: Ritambhara. Vol III – 1980, Kolkata: Haimavati Anirvan Trust. # Patram Pushpam. 1982. Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust. # Prashnottari (Bengali: প্রশ্নোত্তরী). 1973. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay. Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada Saraswati, Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 2001 (Bengali year 1408), 2nd edition. # Pravachan (Bengali: প্রবচন). Vol I – 1962, Vol II – 1963, Vol III – 1966, Vol I – 1961, Vol IV – 1973. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay. Later – Halishar: Srimat Swami Jnananada Saraswati, Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math, 2002 (Bengali year 1409). # Pururava (Bengali). Published 1989. # Sahitya Prasanga (Bengali: সাহিত্য প্রসঙ্গ). 1980. Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust # Shiksha (Bengali: শিক্ষা). Vol I – 1962, Vol II – 1974. Assam Bangyiya Saraswat Math. # Snehashish (Bengali: স্নেহাশীষ). Vol I – 1971, Vol II – 1971, Vol III – 1972. Sreerampore, Hooghly: Ritambhara. # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Aitareya Upanishad (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : ঐতরেয় উপনিষদ্). 1969. Burdwan University. # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Ishopanishad (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : ঈশোপনিষদ্). 1967. Burdwan University. # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Katha Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata: # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Kaushitaki Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata: # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Kenopanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 1969. Kolkata: Haimavati Prakashani Trust # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Mandukya Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata: # Upanishad Prasanga – Commentary on Taittireya Upanishad — (Bengali: উপনিষৎ প্রসঙ্গ : কেনোপনিষদ্). 2009. Kolkata: # Uttarayan (Bengali: উত্তরায়ন). Kolkata: Smt Ramaa Choudhury, Haimavati-Anirban Trust, 1995. # Vedamimamsa (Bengali: বেদ মীমাংসা). Vol I – 1961, Vol II – 1965, Vol III – 1970. Winner of Rabindra Puraskar award. Kolkata: Government Sanskrit College. # Vedanta Jijnasa (Bengali: বেদান্ত জিজ্ঞাসা). Sreerampore, Hooghly: Sri Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay, 1965 (Bengali year 1372). # Yogasamanvaya Prasanga (Bengali: যোগসমন্বয় প্রসঙ্গ). 1967. Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir. ==Biographies== # Section on Sri Anirvan in "Adhyatmavada Samskritite Acarya Satyananda" by Prof. Gita Haldar in Bengali. Undated. # Kathaprasange Sri Anirvan by Ayacaka in Bengali. Undated. # Mahajana Samvada by Prof. Govindagopal Mukherjee in Bengali. Undated. # Rishi Anirvan, biography of Sri Anirvan by Prof. Gita Haldar in Bengali. Published 2008. 5. Smriticarane Mahayogi Anirvan by Dilip Kumar Roy in Bengali. Undated. ==Books on Sri Anirvan and his philosophy== # Akasabrahma by Ayacaka in Bengali. Undated. # My Life In A Brahmin Family by Lizelle Reymond. Translated from the French by Lucy Norton. Rider and Co. London. 1958. # To Live Within by Sri Anirvan and Lizelle Reymond, introduction by Jacob Needleman. Morninglight Press. 2007. == See also == * [Hindu idealism](/source/Hindu_idealism) * [Hindu philosophy](/source/Hindu_philosophy) == References == == External links == {{Wikiquote}} * {{cite book |last=Banik |first=Nandadulal |year=2012 |chapter=Anirvan |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Anirvan |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh](/source/Asiatic_Society_of_Bangladesh)}} * [http://absmath.org Assam Bangiya Saraswat Matha] * ''J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and Indian Tradition''. By Jarava Lal Mehta, William J. Jackson (editor). Brill Academic Publishers, 1992. {{ISBN|978-90-04-09488-8}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=967eWDvaKRIC&dq=%22Translated+The+Life+Divine+into+Bengali%22&pg=PA166 Google books version, accessed 1 June 2008] * Sri Anirvan Rachanavali ( Complete Works ) : http://www.haimavati-anirvan.org. Online e-library (Bengali) including most important works : Veda Mimamsa, Rig-Veda Samhita, Upanishad Prasanga * Sri Anirvan Rachanavali ( Internet Archive Community texts ) : https://archive.org/details/@shri_anirvan_rachanavali {{Indian Philosophy}} {{Bengal Renaissance}} {{Modern Hindu writers}} {{Portal bar|Hinduism|India|Religion}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Anirvan, Sri}} Category:1896 births Category:1978 deaths Category:20th-century Indian philosophers Category:20th-century Bengali people Category:20th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians Category:Indian male essayists Category:Indian Hindu yogis Category:Recipients of the Rabindra Puraskar Category:University of Dhaka alumni Category:The Sanskrit College and University alumni Category:University of Calcutta alumni Category:People from Mymensingh District Category:Bengali Hindus Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders Category:20th-century Indian essayists Category:Scholars from Kolkata --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anirvan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anirvan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anirvan?action=history)). 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