Datt Treya Dattatreya Swami Ashokananda

Swami Ashokananda (23 September 1893 – 13 December 1969), born as Yogeshchandra Dutta, was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda of India and a monk of the Ramakrishna Math. From 1932 until his death in December 1969 at the age of 76 he was in charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco (founded by Vivekananda in 1900). == Life == Yogesh Dutta was born in the village of Bekiteka. He spent his childhood days in Durgapur, a village seven or eight miles west of the town of Habib…