Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati dies at 99

Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati on Sunday passed away at the age of 99 in Madhya Pradesh.

The Hindu religious leader breathed his last at Shridham Jhoteshwar Ashram District in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur at 3.30 p.m. The funeral of Shankaracharya ji will take place on Monday. Swami Swaroopanand was the Shankracharya of Dwarka, Sharda, and Jyotish Peeth.

The Shankaracharya was born as Pothiram Upadhyay in Dighori village in the Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh in 1924. He had left his home in pursuit of God at the age of nine. He became the Shankracharya in 1981, his followers said, adding his 99th birthday was celebrated recently. 1300 years ago, Adi Guru Bhagwan Shankaracharya made 4 religious monasteries in the whole country to organize Hindus and followers of religion and for the upliftment of religion. The Shankaracharya of one of these four Maths was Jagatguru Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati who owned both the Dwarka Math and the Jyotir Math.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep sadness at his death and offered condolences to the seer’s followers.

Jagatguru Swaroopanand Ji Saraswati celebrated his 99th birthday on the day of Hariyali Teej. He was born in a Brahmin family in Dighori village near Jabalpur in the Seoni district. Born in a Brahmin family, Swaroopanand Saraswati learned Vedas and scriptures from Swami Karpatri Maharaj after reaching Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Swaroopanand Saraswati was incarcerated during the freedom struggle, during which he was known as a revolutionary sadhu. He also contributed to the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.