Swami Narasimhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897 and presently heads Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kozhikode, Kerala. He is a former editor of ‘Prabuddha Bharata’, an English monthly journal of the humanities and social sciences started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896. He has edited a volume of Swami Vivekananda’s teachings titled ‘Vivekananda Reader’. He is a member of the International, Interdisciplinary, and Interreligious Research Group on ‘Consciousness Studies’ under the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Pontifical University, Rome, Italy. He is an editor of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. He regularly addresses the youth across India, particularly in educational institutions of national importance like the IITs. He has publications in Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Bengali, and Tamil.