in the course of their imprisonment became his good friend and disciple. Eidlitz recounts these events in his autobiographical work "Unknown India". In 1954, Sadananda received sannyasa, i.e. he entered the stage of a mendicant, from Swami Satyabastabya Brajabasi (Baraswami), who belonged to the Gaudiya Math in Benares, becoming Swami Sadananda Das. In 1961 Sadananda returned to Europe. There he stayed until his demise in 1977, teaching bhakti yoga to a small circle of Swedish, German and Swiss friends and translating Vaishnava texts from Sanskrit and Bengali into German. He thereby assisted his disciple Walther Eidlitz with his publications, lectures and courses. Their main common work is Walther Eidlitz' book on Krishna Caitanya for which Sadananda provided the translations from the Sanskrit and Bengali sources. Works by Svami Sadananda Dasa Svami Sadananda Dasa (2014): Krishna’s Damodara Lila. Rendering based on passages from the Shrimad-Bhagavatam, Gopala-Campuh and Ananda-Vrindavana-Campuh. Translated into English by Kid Samuelsson and Bengt Lundborg from Svami Sadananda Dasa’s German original "Die Damodara-Lila Krishna’s". Svami Sadananda Dasa (2015): Tender as a Flower – Hard as a Thunderbolt. Words of Truth and Love. Into English by Kid Samuelsson, Bengt Lundborg and Katrin Stamm. Svami Sadananda Dasa (1935): "Sunder Warumbe". The Harmonist. Vol. XXXII, No. 7, pp. 154–167. Svami Sadananda Dasa (1936): "Society – Community – Math". The Harmonist. Vol. XXXII. No.14, pp. 329–332. Svami Sadananda Dasa (1936): "Sub specie aeternitatis – Spiritual View". The Harmonist, Vol. XXXII, No. 15, pp. 343–351. Svami Sadananda Dasa (1936): "Buddhism – Philosophy or Religion". The Harmonist. Vol. XXXII. No. 16, pp. 361–368, 385-390. Footnotes References Bon Maharaja, Tridandi Swami Hridaya (1933), My lectures in England and Germany. Vrindaban and Calcutta: Messers N. K. Banerjee. Eidlitz, Walther (1952). Unknown India. A Pilgrimage into a forgotten World. New York: Rider & Company. Eidlitz, Walther (1968). Krishna-Caitanya. Sein Leben und Seine Lehre. Stockholm: Almkvist & Wiksell. Ramdas, Swami (1940). In the Vision of God. Kanhangad: Anandashram. Sardella, Ferdinando (2010). Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The Context and Significance of a Modern Hindu Personalist. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg. Stamm, Katrin (2017), Be Careful with Bhakti or Why the Guru withdraws: The Unconventional Life and Teachings of Svami Sadananda Dasa. Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Spring 2017, Vol 25, p. 131-150. External links Facebook page led by disciples 1908 births 1977 deaths Gaudiya religious leaders German religious leaders German Hindus 20th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians Converts to Hinduism 20th-century Hindu religious leaders