 Soon after Swami Vivekananda took him back to the Himalayas as his guide so he could fulfill his own longing to travel and practice there.At one point both Vivekananda and Akandananda became sick and traveled to join Turiyananda at Dehradun to recover.Later they met again in Meerut and were joined by Brahmananda and Advaitananda, so that Meerut became a second Baranagore Monastery.