Soham Swami was a Hindu guru and yogi from India.
13 Facts About Soham Swami
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Soham Swami was born as Shyama Kanta Bandopadhyay at Adial, a small village in Bikrampur district in the Bengali month of Jaishthya in 1858 and was one of the pioneers of physical prowess of modern Bengal.
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Soham Swami had so much physical strength that he could wrestle even tigers.
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Soham Swami was known to the public, both Indian and European, as Professor Banerjee, the first tiger tamer of India, and to his admirers in Bengal as BaghaShyamakanta.
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Soham Swami built a hermitage near a crematorium in Bhawali in Nainital.
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Soham Swami later became a monk and was renamed Sayambhati.
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Soham Swami resigned from the Maharaja's service after two years, though both of them maintained a lifelong cordial relationship.
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Soham Swami was known for smashing heavy stones on his chest.
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Soham Swami has lost all his desires for fame and wealth.
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Soham Swami set up his hermitage at Bhawali near Nainital in modern-day Uttarakhand, India.
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Soham Swami followed the spiritual path of Advaita or non-dualism and was a staunch critic of religious bigotry and superstitions.
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On 6 December 1918, Soham Swami passed away while in deep meditation or Samadhi in his hermitage at Bhawali.
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Soham Swami rejected the existence of a Personal God, which, according to him is an incorrect concept influenced by the Abrahamic religions.