[1] Vivekananda exclaimed to Sara Bull and other friends about the young disciple whom he had initiated into the monastic order, "we have made an acquisition today.

[2] Early experiences with sorrows and tribulations in life and human misery inspired him to develop a spiritual outlook.

[3] He developed friendship with Satishchandra Mukherjee, who was in his later years a patriot and a scholar, and together started a school for imparting knowledge of Indian scriptures and Sanskrit education.

[6] Swarupananda was married early in his youth, but continued to live as a Brahmachari or celibate at his parents' home in Calcutta.

[10][11] Sister Nivedita had become a monastic disciple of Vivekananda when she took sanyas four days prior to Swarupananda at Belur, in March–April 1898.

[8] The publication of Prabuddha Bharata, the Official Journal of the Ramakrishna Order was halted abruptly due to the death of its editor B. R. Rajam Iyer, who was only twenty-four years old, on 13 May 1898 in Chennai.

[12] During his editorship, Prabuddha Bharata became a powerful medium for disseminating ideals of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and earned much appreciation from the intellectuals.

He initiated education of hill people in modern methods of cultivation to address their acute poverty and shortage of food.

[16] In 1899, he worked to provide relief to the local people who were affected by a terrible famine in the Kishangarh area, near Jaipur.

As a distinguished scholar he wrote several articles in Prabuddha Bharata and strongly rebutted the criticisms of a certain Professor Fraser on Vivekananda in Hindustan Review magazine.

In November 1901 he was recuperating in Calcutta with Vivekananda;[20] while he continued to edit the magazine and run the ashram for another six years until his 1906 death in Nainital.