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This biography presents a coherent and cogent account of the life and achievements of Adi Sankara, closely following Madhava Vidyaranya’s Sankara-digvijaya. Describing his birth and early life, it discusses at length his journey to spiritualism, with special focus on his search of a Guru, his visit to Varanasi, his penance in the Himalayas, and his engagement with exegesis.
Understanding the need of the aspirants to reach out to the Unknown through the ...
T.V. Kapali Sastri was a Vedic scholar who had his early training under the renowned Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni. His scholarship and spiritual sadhana endeared him to Ramana Maharshi. From 1916 onwards he was drawn to Sri Aurobindo's yoga and settled down in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Interpreting the philosophy of Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo became a lifelong vocation for him. Teacher, translator, exegetist, essayist and poet, Kapali Sastri was a philosopher ...
Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), supreme among twentieth century Tamil poets, has also been one of the major creative forces of the modern renaissance in Tamil Nadu, and has been described as Agastya incarnate who re-created Tamil. Although Bharati died young, his collected poems make a volume of 600 pages, marked by opulence as well as variety, and noted alike for their vitality and musical quality as also their emotional and spiritual appeal. Dr Prema Nandakumar ...