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Ishwar Totapuri not to be confused with Totapuri Maharaj. Totapuri Maharaj was most likely born in erstwhile Punjabi Suba of Mughal India some time in mid17th century most likely in 1630CE bordering on Baluchistan now in Pakistan about hundred years prior to the birth of so-called Ishwar Totapuri. Ishwar Totapuri may be a disciple of Totapuri Maharaj who has probably assumed and added Totapuri to his name as reverence to his Gurudev (Totapuri Maharaj). TOTAPURI (b.1630) (also Tota Puri: : ) affectionately known as "Nangta Baba" in Bengal (1630CE – 28 August 1961CE), Basically Totapuri Maharaj was a naked Naga Sidha Guru belonging to Satnami Puri Sampradaya of Adi Sankar or Acharya Sankar or Sri Sankar Bhagavadpad. He was that rare breed of Indian saint also known as Brahmavid Baristh Digambar Paramhans, was a parivrajaka (wandering monk) who followed the path of the Monism Advaita Vedanta in its truest form. He was a great Advaiteen, which is never disputed. However towards his last part of his Parivrajak Sanyas life, he settled establishing his Ashram (Advait Brahma Ashram) on a sand dune named GIRNARBANT in Srikhetra PURI in Odisha from 1920–1961CE till his last teaching and professing Advaitvad. He is said to have taught initiated many top and prominent saints including Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. There is few literature available on him as he himself was discouraging his followers to write about him. There are a few books written in Bengali/Hindi and Odia literature depicting some pages on his life and philosophy available in Advait Brahma Ashram Girnarbanta Lokanath Road PURI in Odisha.

By the time he arrived at Dakshineswar Temple in 1862–63, he was a wandering monk of the Dasnami order of Adi Shankara, and head of a monastery in the Punjab claiming leadership of seven hundred sannyasins. He initiated Ramakrishna into Advaita Vedanta, as well as Anandpuri Ji from the Advait Mat tradition.

Totapuri taught Ramakrishna that the sole reality of the impersonal Absolute could only be realized in a state of consciousness devoid of all conceptual forms. Ramakrishna described Totapuri as "a teacher of masculine strength, a sterner mien, a gnarled physique, and a virile voice", and addressed him affectionately as Nangta, the "Naked One", because as a renunciate he did not wear any clothing.

Totapuri (mango)

The Totapuri or Ginimoothi mango is a cultivar that is widely grown in south India. It also goes by the names Bangalora, Collector, Kallamai, Kili Mooku, Gilli, Mukku, Sandersha, and Thevadiyamuthi. In Bengaluru it is referred to as Ginimoothi Maavina Kayi, while most of the rest of India calls it Totapuri or Bangalora. Totapuri was imported to Florida in 1901 as Sandersha and in the 1960s as Totapuri. It is the parent of at least two Florida mango cultivars, Anderson and Brooks.

Totapuri is one of the main cultivars grown in India for mango pulp, along with Alphonso and Kesar. The tree is medium size with greenish yellow fruits.