Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati passes away at 99; PM Modi expresses deep sadness

Narsinghpur, September 12: Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati of the Dwarka’s Sharda Peeth monastery passed away on Sunday, September 11, in Chhattisgarh’s Narsinghpur district after suffering a heart attack. He was 99.

 

Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati had been unwell for a long time.According to Swami Swaroopanand’s disciplines, his body will be laid to rest on Monday afternoon at the Paramahamsi Ganga hermitage in Chhattisgarh’s Narsinghpur. 

 

  

Swami Swaroopanand was born in Dighori village in Madhya Pradesh’s Siwani district. He left his home at the age of 9. Later, he went to Kashi in Uttar Pradesh, where he gained spiritual enlightenment and religious wisdom from Swami Karpatri Maharaj.

 

Swami Shankracharya was also imprisoned during the Indian Independence movement. He also participated in the Quit India movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 and was incarcerated in Varanasi for nine months and in Madhya Pradesh for six months.

 

 

 

He was one of the prominent figures in the legal battle for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Swami Swaroopanand was coronated as Shankaracharya in 1981 after his guru, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati, passed away.

 

 

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was deeply saddened by the demise of Swaroopanand. “My condolences to his followers in this time of grief. Om Shanti!” he wrote.