Subodhananda

I don’t want anything else.” Subodhananda (8 November 1867 – 2 December 1932),[1] born as Subodh Chandra Ghosh, was a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna, the 19th-century saint and mystic from India.

The youngest of the direct monastic disciples, he was affectionately known by his brother monks, whose leader was Swami Vivekananda, as "Khoka" (Bengali for little boy).

While studying there, he came across a Bengali book called The Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, by Suresh Chandra Datta.

After the death of Ramakrishna in 1886, Subodh left his home and joined the monastery in Baranagar, started by Narendranath Dutta, who later became known as Vivekananda.

Subodh's monastic name was Swami Subodhananda, but he was more popularly called "Khoka" or the child, being the youngest among the brother disciples.

In 1890, they together went for a pilgrimage to the Western and Central India including Omkar, Girnar, Bombay, Dwarka and to Vrindaban where they stayed for some time.

When the great plague broke out in Calcutta, Subodhananda worked hard for arranging relief and rehabilitation along with Sadananda and Sister Nivedita.

[3]: 281 During the famine of 1908 in the Chilka islands of Orissa he worked alongside fellow monks of the Ramakrishna Mission to provide relief to the affected people.

In making disciples he made no distinction in terms of social position, caste, sex or age.

[3]: 287 One of his famous lectures was in Madras in 1897 to an audience belonging to the Young Men's Hindu Association, where he talked on Sannyasa (renunciation) and Brahmacharya (celibacy).

[3]: 285 The young ascetics and monks of the Ramakrishna Math found him to be a source of great help as he would enquire about their troubles and difficulties, would be their mouthpiece to the seniors, would mediate for them and shield them when they inadvertently committed something wrong[clarification needed].