Sri Ananda Acharya

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Bust of Barals, by Ragnhild Butenschøn 1959. On display in Alvdal City Hall.
Baral's grave at Flattron .

Swami Sri Ananda Acharya (born December 29, 1881 in Bengal , India , † May 8, 1945 in Alvdal , Norway ) was an Indian philosophy professor, yogi , guru and poet .

Swami Sri Ananda Acharya was also known under the name Surenda Nath Baral , or Baral for short . He moved to Norway in 1914 and from 1917 lived on the slope of Tronfjell below the Tronsvangen mountain pasture , near Alvdal in Österdalen. Swami Sri Ananda Acharya wrote more than 30 books on poetry , philosophy and spirituality . He was close friends with the Norwegian poet and philosopher Arne Garborg , who lived near Alvdal for 10 years. The exchange of ideas between both found expression in their works from this time. Swami Sri Ananda Acharya died on May 8th 1945 in Alvdal on Peace Day. He was buried near the top of Tronfjell. Today an approx. 4 meter high memorial column, which was erected on the Flattron Plateau, commemorates Sri Ananda. Some of his thoughts were engraved on metal plates near this pillar.

Peace University

Swami Sri Ananda Acharya developed the idea of ​​a Peace University in two of his books from 1919 and 1921 . A rock plateau of Tronfjell at an altitude of 1200 meters, usually called Flattron , now also called Peace Plateau , was chosen by him as the ideal location. Swami Sri Ananda Acharya's ideas were the starting point of the Mt. Tron University of Peace Foundation , an organization founded in 1993 to establish the Peace University on Tronfjell. The Norwegian architecture professor Knud Larsen drew the first designs for this university.

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SURNAME Acharya, Sri Ananda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acharya, Swami Sri Ananda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian philosophy professor, yogi, guru and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bengal , India
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1945
Place of death Alvdal , Norway