- temple priest, sanyasi
- believed in meditation, renunciation, monotheism
- not at all western
- did not directly criticize british but due to pure focus on hinduism, indirectly rejected western culture
- became popular among educated bengalis criticized chakri (i.e. employment of british)
- reformist mindset
- i.e. meant indian uncivilized
- he believed chakri did not leave time for spiritualism, hence dissatisfaction among masses