Swami Trigunatitananda, II Monastic life II Work in America

Trigunatitananda (30 January 1865 – 10 January 1915), Pre-monastic name Sarada Prasanna Mitra, was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, the 19th-century Indian Hindu mystic and saint. He established the monthly Bengali magazine Udbodhan of Ramakrishna Math and later, at the behest of Vivekananda, went to America in 1902 and took charge of the San Francisco center.

In January 1887 Sarada took the vows of complete renunciation or sannyasa along with his brother disciples and came to be known as Trigunatitananda (one who has surpassed the three Gunas or attributes and have attained supreme bliss, an enlightened one. Triguna: the three Gunas or attributes of Sattva (contemplation), Rajas (activity) and Tamas (darkness or passivity) In 1891 Trigunatita started on pilgrimage for Vrindaban, Mathura, Jaipur, Ajmere, Kathiawar. At Porbandar, he met Vivekananda. After that, he returned to Baranagar Math. In 1895 he set out on foot for Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar.176 He came back to Calcutta and stayed in the house of a devotee and led a contemplative life for some time. After some time he went to stay in the newly formed Alambazar Math of the Ramakrishna Order. He was influenced by Vivekananda's ideal of service and philanthropic activities. In 1897 when the district of Dinajpur in Bengal was in the grip of a famine, he went there and organized relief work. Vivekananda had planned a magazine to spread the message of Vedanta. For this purpose, a press was bought and Trigunatita was put in charge of publishing the magazine, Udbodhan After Yogananda's death, Tigunatitananda became a personal attendant to Sarada Devi for a time. His brother Ashutosh Mitra, later a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, also served her for a time.