Shaivism/Tantra/Nath New movements Kashmir Shaivism Gaudapada Adi Shankara Advaita-Yoga Nath Kashmir Shaivism Neo-Vedanta Inchegeri Sampradaya Contemporary Shaivism/Tantra/Nath Neo-Advaita Hinduism Buddhism Modern Advaita Vedanta Neo-Vedanta Traditional Adbhutananda (died 1920), born Rakhturam, was a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna, a Yogi of nineteenth century Bengal.

[2] While most of Ramakrishna's direct disciples came from the Bengali intelligentsia, Adbhutananda's lack of formal education made him unique among them.

[5][6] Adbhutananda was born in Chhapra district of Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bihar), around the middle of the nineteenth century.

[9] Ramakrishna lived at the Dakshineswar Kāli Temple, a few miles north of Calcutta, on the eastern bank of the Ganges.

[11] Latu began to visit Ramakrishna regularly, and he lost the enthusiasm with which he worked before at Datta's house.

[13] At Dakshineswar Latu began a life of rigorous spiritual discipline under Ramakrishna's guidance, and also continued his service as his servant to him.

As Latu had received no formal schooling, Ramakrishna hoped that he might acquire at least a rudimentary education, so he tried to teach him the Bengali alphabets himself.

Here some of the disciples including Naren took their monastic vows and were engaged in the study of the scriptures, practising meditation and austerity.

Here he was visited by people from different walks of life—judges, doctors, teachers, learned monks, and householders for spiritual instructions.

As reported by this disciples, his body, which had once been remarkably strong, had been gradually weakened by age and years of intense spiritual disciplines and his indifference towards the physical world.

[30] Regarding his death, Turiyananda wrote in a letter to Josephine MacLeod, an American devotee of Vivekananda, "He showed no signs of pain during his illness.

His face beamed with light and an intelligence unspeakable, as if he were taking leave from his friends for the last time with an exhortation of affectionate benediction.

Swami Adbhutananda taught that "the true being in man is ever free, ever pure, and remains ever untouched by good or evil.

When the ego is completely annihilated, man is freed from the false knowledge of duality or relativity--of good and evil.