People from Dakshina Kannad

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Swami Krishnananda, Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, Basti Vaman Shenoy, B. V. Karanth, Vijay Mallya, Suniel Shetty, Abbakka Rani, Padmanabh Jaini, B. M. Idinabba, Ratnakaravarni, Kadri Gopalnath, Abdussalam Puthige, K. Chidananda Gowda, D. V. Sadananda Gowda, Ahmed Noori, A. B. Shetty, B. Ramanath Rai, Nalin Kumar Kateel, Mallika Prasad, K. Amarnath Shetty, B. Nagaraja Shetty, Raghuram Bhat, Ashish Kumar Ballal, B. Subbayya Shetty, Muthappa Rai, B. Vittaldas Shetty, M. V. Vasudeva Rao. Excerpt: Sri Swami Krishnananda Saraswati Maharaj (April 25, 1922 - November 23, 2001) was a Hindu saint. He was a foremost disciple of Swami Sivananda and served as the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, India from 1958 until 2001. Author of more than 200 texts, and lecturing extensively, on yoga, religion, and metaphysics, Krishnananda was a prolific theologian and philosopher. Swami Krishnananda was President of the Sivananda Literature Research Institute and the Sivananda Literature Dissemination Committee. He served as editor of the Divine Life Society's monthly paper, Divine Life, for 20 years. Sivananda Ashram, headquarters of the Divine Life SocietyThe eldest of six children, Swami Krishnananda was born on April 25, 1922, into a highly religious and an orthodox Madhva Brahmin family. He was named Subbaraya by his parents. He had his high school education at Puttur, Karnataka. By the study of Sanskrit works like the Gita, the Upanishads, the Vedas, etc., Swami Krishnananda became rooted in Advaita Vedanta philosophy, though he belonged to the traditional Madhva-sect (Dvaita Vedanta), which follows the dualistic philosophy. In 1943, Subbaraya took up Government service at Hospet in the Bellary District, but it did not last long. Before the end of the same year, he left for Sivananda Ashram, where he arrived in...