Abhishiktananda [SEP] cause of death
should accept "namarupa" of the most varied kinds ... We should penetrate the depth of each other's mystery ... Take off from each of them as from a springboard, towards the bottomless ocean..."
His posthumous book, "The Further Shore", which he wrote several months before his "mahasamadhi", reflects his last experiences and his disciple Swami Ajatananda draws attention in the book's foreword to the fact that "...nothing that Swamiji wrote had not been lived by him, realized in himself. This is
and French Benedictine monk Henri le Saux (who was later to adopt the name Abhishiktananda), the co-founders of Saccidananda Ashram (also called Shantivanam) an ashram founded in 1938 at Tannirpalli in Tiruchirapalli District and still surviving into the 21st century. Upadhyay was also an influence upon Bede Griffiths., who co-founded Kurisumala Ashram with Francis Mahieu and who took over leadership of Saccidananda Ashram after Monchanin's death and le Saux's decision to leave for his hermitage.
In the late seventeenth, early eighteenth, century