Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari | |
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| Born | 10 May 1949 Kolkata, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Motivational Speaker, Social Advocate |
Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari born 10 May 1949, is a motivational speaker and social advocate. He lives in Kolkata, India, where he founded and is the current mentor of Lokenath Divine Life Mission. He has authored several books and travels internationally, speaking on stress reduction, mindfulness and meditation and microcredit. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
He received a Master of Commerce degree in 1972 at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and taught Commerce at Andhra Vidyalaya College (affiliated to Osmania University). From 1972–1976 he was a lecturer of Commerce at Andhra Vidyalaya College, (affiliated to Osmania University) in Hyderabad, India. [9]
He founded Lokenath Divine Life Mission (LDLM) in 1985 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Lokenath Divine Life Mission works in the field of education, health care and women's empowerment, utililizing microcredit self-help programs. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
A former professor of economics, Brahmachari’s model aims at direct credit linkage between banks and SHGs, completely eliminating agencies that play the middleman, such as NGOs. LDLM’s role is to create SHGs through awareness, training and organisation and then enable their credit linkage with the banks. [11]
LDLM also performs resource linkage[ clarification needed ] as well as addressing targeted areas of need and collaborating with other organizations on additional programs. [10] [13] [14] [15]
In 2005, he founded the Stress Management Academy, and began conducting global seminars on breathing, relaxation, meditation, mindfulness and positive thinking for schools, corporations, hospitals, prisons and other venues under his Course of Mindfulness program. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
He addressed the Parliament of World Religion in Chicago, (1993) and Barcelona (2004), [15] was a keynote speaker at the Global Youth Conference held at the Capital Center, Washington, DC (1993), [12] and was a special invitee to the United Nations World Millennium Summit of spiritual leaders in New York, (2000). [8] He was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Spiritual Paradigm for Surmounting Global Management Crisis in Varanasi, India in 2012, 2013. [3] He was keynote speaker at the Origin Group, Bahrain Annual Conference on The Power Within, 2014, [16] and the Women’s Economic Forum (WEF), New Delhi, 2016, where he was awarded the Iconic Leaders in Peace and Change Award. [17] He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the S.T.A.R foundation at the House of Lords in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2015 for his "invaluable and outstanding contribution to society". He was presented the Award by The Rt Hon, Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE [18]
Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari is also a spotlight writer for OM Times e-zine. [25]
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