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{{Infobox Hindu leader<br />
| name = Panchanan Bhattacharya<br />
| image = Panchanan Bhattacharya.jpg<br />
| caption = Panchanan Bhattacharya<br />
| religion = [[Hinduism]]<br />
| birth_date = 1853<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1919|1853}}<br />
| death_place = <br />
| order = <br />
| guru = [[Lahiri Mahasaya]]<br />
| disciples = Srish Chandra Mukherjee<br/>Bamandev Banerjee<br/>Harimohan Banerjee<br/>Netai Charan Banerjee<br/>Barada Charan Majumdar<br/>Kumarnath Mukherjee<br/>Jeevanlal Choudhury<br />Nagendranath Choudhury<br />
| philosophy = [[Kriya Yoga school|Kriya Yoga]]<br />
| signature = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Panchanan Bhattacharya''' ({{langx|bn|পঞ্চানন ভট্টাচার্য}}) (1853–1919) was a disciple of the Indian Yogi [[Lahiri Mahasaya]]. He was the first disciple to be authorized by Lahiri Mahasaya to initiate others into [[Kriya Yoga school|Kriya Yoga]], and helped to spread Lahiri Mahasaya's teachings in [[Bengal]] through his Arya Mission Institution.<ref>Satyananda, p. 26</ref><ref>[http://www.aryyamissioninstitution.in/ Aryya Mission Institution website]</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Bhattacharya was born in the Ahiritola area of [[Kolkata]]. He took to the life of [[Brahmacharya]], or celibacy, at a very young age. In the course of his wandering he met Lahiri Mahasaya in [[Varanasi]]. Lahiri Mahasaya agreed to initiate him in [[Kriya Yoga school|Kriya Yoga]] under the condition that he give up his [[Sannyasa|sannyas]] vows and return to a householder life. Bhattacharya fulfilled this condition and received initiation from Lahiri Mahasaya. As a householder, he worked as a flower vendor.<br />
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Around the year 1885 he was permitted by the sage to set up an institution, the Aryya Mission Institution, for publishing Kriya related books. [[Paramahansa Yogananda]] in his book, ''[[Autobiography of a Yogi]]'' wrote:<br />
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{{blockquote|The master now permitted his disciple, Panchanon Bhattacharya, to open in Calcutta a yoga center, the "Arya Mission Institution". The centre distributed certain yogic herbal medicines, and published the first inexpensive editions in Bengal of the Bhagavad-Gita. The Arya Mission Gita, in Hindi and Bengali, found its way into thousands of homes.<ref>Yogananda, pp. 381–382</ref>}}<br />
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The physical place of The Aryya Mission Institution as founded by Panchanan Bhattacharya in 1886 closed many years ago. It was revived again, in online mode, in recent years.<ref>[http://www.aryyamissioninstitution.in/ Aryya Mission Institution website]</ref><br />
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Some of Panchanan Bhattacharya's disciples include Srish Chandra Mukherjee, Bamandev Banerjee, Hairmohan Banerjee, Netai Charan Banerjee, [[Barada Charan Majumdar]], Kumarnath Mukherjee, Jeevanlal Choudhury, Nagendranath Choudhury, amongst others. Many disciples initiated by [[Lahiri Mahasaya]] also went to Panchanan Bhattacharya for advanced Kriya yoga instruction.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Mahavatar Babaji]]<br />
*[[Yukteswar Giri]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Satyananda Giri |first=Swami |title=Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasay, from A Collection of Biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga Gurus |year=2006 |publisher=iUniverse Inc. |isbn=978-0-595-38675-8}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Yogananda |first=Paramhansa |title=Autobiography of a Yogi |year=2005 |publisher=Crystal Clarity Publishers |isbn=978-1-56589-212-5}} Reprint of 1946 first edition published by Philosophical Library, New York.<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Swami Satyeswarananda Giri. ''The Divine Incarnation of Panchanan Bhattacharya, Chief Disciple of Lahiri Mahasay''. 1996. {{ISBN|1-877854-30-1}}, pp.&nbsp;217–218<br />
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