Swami Satprakashananda (April 1888 – 15 November 1979) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher.
"[1]: 391 Satprakashananda subsequently went to Saint Louis, Missouri where in 1938 he established a permanent Vedanta Society which he directed for the next forty years.
[5]: 114 Satprakashananda was a scholar and wrote a number of books on Vedanta and Indian religious scriptures and commentary.
[6]: 78 In American Veda, Philip Goldberg reported that after moving into the area, Huston Smith sought out the Saint Louis Vedanta Society, "took up a meditation practice and probed deeply into Vedanta, meeting with Satprakashananda for tutorials virtually every week for ten straight years.
"[7]: 104 When the St. Louis Vedanta Society grew and was ready to purchase its own building, Smith placed the deed in his own name, having served "as front man for the transaction,"[7]: 104 because "someone—the owner, the realtors, or the city—refused to sell to a dark-skinned heathen like Satprakashananda,"[7]: 104 an incident described by the American Vedantist as an occasion when Swami Satprakashananda "faced racial discrimination.