caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place philosophy image_size birth_date quote image article_title guru name
turiyananda 21 july 1922 varanasi , india harinath chattopadhyay calcutta , bengal presidency , british india vedanta 200px 3 january 1863 '' one 's weakness . strong is he who is flexible stubbornness like steel and does not break . strong is he is who can live in harmony with many people and heed not opinions other than his own . . '' strength . stubbornness merely hides monastic-disciples-9-1-swami-turiyananda . jpg turiyananda
 ramakrishna turiyananda
turiyananda

`` you are hari-das , the servant of hari -lrb- the lord -rrb- .
is it possible for you to exist without remembering the lord ? ''
-- ramakrishna to harinath `` he -lrb- harinath -rrb- is a yogi according to the gita '' -- ramakrishna turiyananda or `` hari maharaj '' as he was popularly known as , was a direct monastic disciple of ramakrishna , the 19th-century saint and mystic from bengal .
he was one of the earliest missionary to be sent by his leader and brother disciple vivekananda to united states of america to preach the universal message of vedanta to the western audience from 1899 -- 1902 .
he established the shanti ashrama in california , united states .
he was a foremost monk of the ramakrishna mission .
he died in varanasi , india .
