About the Author
Nataraja Guru (1895-1973) succeeded Narayana Guru as a philosophical revaluator, continuing an ancient lineage extending through Sankaracarya and Vyasa back to the Upanishads. Sent to study in the West by his teacher, he earned a D.Lit. (Doctorate in Literature) from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne). In 1923 he established the Narayana Gurukula at Varkala, Kerala.
He translated into English and wrote commentaries on all of the major works of Narayana Guru, and wrote extensively on a wide range of subjects, developing what he called a protolinguistic, or structural, approach to the perennial wisdom of Advaita Vedanta.
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Based on Narayana Guru's Darsana Mala, a string of one hundred Sanskrit verses that is the epitome of all visions of truth inspired by Upanishadic thought and by the Guru's own tapas (spiritual discipline). Nataraja Guru's commentary is an attempt to reintroduce Brahmavidya as the one master science embracing every branch of science and every human interest.
Nataraja Guru's account of a philosophically rigorous guruhood carried out on a global background. Rather than seeking blind followership, he sought understanding, and restated yoga as a modern, perennial science of dialectics applicable in all fields of life.
An exploration of dialectical method and its use across Eastern and Western philosophy, examining themes such as the relationship between man and woman, proto-language versus meta-language, and romance versus tragedy in literature. The book shows how dialectics, used in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita as well as by Western thinkers from Kant to Marx, can lead to a superior, unitive understanding.
An inquiry into whether humanity can achieve a unified world consciousness. Nataraja Guru examines how a 'unitive vision' could overcome divisive barriers such as nationalism and religion, and offers his perspective on world government, economics, education, unified religion and science, describing the qualities called for in citizens of a truly world society.
A rendering of one hundred verses originally composed in Malayalam by Narayana Guru, moving from early, myth-clothed writing toward a philosophical vision centered on Advaita Vedanta and Self-realization. The verses emphasize the absolute value of the Self, or Atman, rather than deity worship, presenting spiritual life as a dynamic balance of scriptural form and open inquiry into cosmology, theology and psychology.
A detailed commentary that reads the Saundarya Lahari's hundred verses in praise of the Devi as Advaita Vedanta itself, addressing questions of authorship while presenting the joy of Advaita through imagery of beauty and bliss.
Nataraja Guru's commentary approaches the Gita as a universally applicable psychology of life and living rather than a text requiring faith alone. Now in a new edition after nearly fifty years in continuous publication, it offers a global, scientific reading of the text's teaching on human potential.
A biography of Narayana Guru that also examines the nature of guruhood itself, offering rational explanations for many puzzling aspects of life and showing how Advaita Vedanta applies to modern thought. Nataraja Guru integrates scientific and mystical perspectives through what he called 'Wisdom-Dialectics,' and the book includes annotated writings of Narayana Guru along with cultural background on South India.
An overarching philosophical scheme that integrates all aspects of reality into a single, absolute system. Nataraja Guru examines rationalist and materialist philosophies to draw out their absolute elements, treats dialectical thinking as central to a vision that includes all parts within one whole, and distinguishes exclusionary totalitarianism from inclusive absolutism, proposing a balance in which physics and metaphysics verify and support one another.
A structural map of wisdom, or finalized knowledge concerning life, spanning epistemology, axiology, mathematics, sociology, politics and mysticism. It shows how distinctions such as contemplative versus active, theoretical versus functional, and Eastern versus Western dissolve into a single absolute truth that points, in the end, toward common human happiness.