IAS Officer Monk: An IAS officer who became a monk when he was 14 years old to retire! Achi-News

But an officer who studied hard and became IAS gave up everything and became a monk (IAS Monk Officer)!? Yes, Sunil Patnaik lived like this amazing story! (Sunil Patnaik) No, Swami Nirliptananda Saraswati!

Sunil Patnaik, who served the public for 23 years as an IAS officer, was 14 years away from retirement when he took the most important decision of his life! Sunil Patnaik is not the one who has decided to leave everything and seek sannyas as something like a miracle in such a night. The profound impact of Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj’s teachings on the mind and the reward of a long project led to Sunil Patnaik, an IS officer, becoming Swami Nirliptananda.

I got this book after completing IAS and getting selected
Sunil Patnaik is the second son of a Chief Clerk working in Zilla Parishad in Ganjam district of Odisha. Sunil’s mother is a housewife. Anna, who completed her post-graduation from Allahabad University, suggested that she apply for IAS. Till then no member of the family had appeared for any competitive examination. At the same time, a book on Swami Sivananda’s teachings changed his life. But meanwhile his IAS exam was over and he got selected.

When Sunil Patnaik was undergoing IS training at the National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, he had taken his two friends to Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh.

Not agreeing to the marriage
When I returned home after completing IAS training, there was constant pressure to get married at home. But Sunil did not want to be bound by marriage. Finally the family members accepted that they had been defeated. His first post was the Regional Manager of the Dandakaranya Project. There he was responsible for the rehabilitation of thousands of poor families who had migrated from East Pakistan. Later, as the Collector of Bolangir district, Patnaik faced very difficult conditions but he did things that are still remembered by the people there.

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The district attorney was sleeping on the mat!
He was first posted in his home state of Odisha. Despite being an IAS, Sunil Patnaik did not use bed pillows to sleep. They used to bring a mat and place it on the floor. Finally, in 1990, Sunil Patnaik took monastic ordination to Rishikesh and changed his name to Nirliptananda.