Leading religious figure for Bahrain Forum

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Staff Reporter

Leading religious figure Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, the Vice-Chairman of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math and President of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) will be attending the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence”.

The forum has already attained global significance with the decision of His Holiness Pope Francis to visit the Kingdom and attend the closing ceremony of the first-ever “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence”, which will see around 200 interfaith leaders gathered to promote fraternity.

Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri is the head disciple of renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma). He has been living in Amritapuri Ashram since its inception in the late 1970s.

He holds a Master’s in Philosophy and is a renowned author and translator, has written: “The Irresistible Attraction of Divinity” (2019) and “The Colour of the Rainbow: Compassionate Leadership” (2014), as well as Amma’s Biography.

He has also translated into English more than 10 volumes of conversations between Amma and devotees, for which he also served as a compiler. He is a magnificent singer and composer of bhajans and has traveled around the world more than 30 times with Amma in her service.