Sivananda gave him the name Satyananda Saraswati and initiated him as a Paramahamsa sannyasin of the Dashnama sannyasa order, on the banks of the river Ganges on 12 September 1947.
In 2006 he held the closing speech at the „Kriya Yoga Centenary Celebrations: 100 years Paramahamsa Hariharananda“ in Berlin.