I. K. Taimni
Iqbal Kishen Taimni | |
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Allahabad University, CSIR | |
Thesis | (1928) |
I. K. Taimni (Iqbal Kishen Taimni, 1898–1978) was a professor of
Early life
Taimni was born in 1898 in Kashmiri Mohalla,
Taimni married Kunwar (née Nagu) in Indore in 1922. She held a B.A. degree (earned in Benares), which was unusual for women of that time. He was selected for the Central Excise service but he declined the offer as he preferred teaching as a career and joined
Later career
On returning to India, Taimni resumed teaching at Allahabad University while his wife joined Krishna Ashram, Allahabad as a principal. It was a Montessori school for children sponsored by the Theosophical Society. Taimni retired in 1960 and thereafter worked for two years with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Post retirement he took to writing commentaries on
Mr. and Mrs. Taimni were both vegetarians, and were lifelong members of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai. Mr. Taimni served for a number of years as Director of the School of the Wisdom at the International Headquarters of the Society.
Taimni's Man, God and the Universe was a work on occult and
Taimni's works
- The books
- Gayatri
- Glimpses into the Psychology of Yoga
- Man, God and the Universe
- Science and Occultism
- The Science of Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- The Secret of Self-Realization
- Self Culture In The Light Of Occultism
- Self Realization Through Love
- Ultimate Reality & Realization
- The articles
See also
Notes
- ^ In 1919 at Allahabad, Taimni became a member of the Theosophical Society Adyar.[3]
- ^ "Works: 62 works in 236 publications in 8 languages and 2,197 library holdings."[5]
References
- ^ Grinshpon 2002, p. 18.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2008, p. 239.
- ^ Register.
- ^ Ramanujachary 1993, p. 55.
- ^ WorldCat Identities.
- ^ JSTOR 1397772.
Sources
- "Taimni, I. K. (Iqbal Kishen) 1898–1978". WorldCat Identities. OCLC WorldCat. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- "Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875–1942". tsmembers.org. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ISBN 9780199717569. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- Grinshpon, Y. (2002). Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga. SUNY series in Hindu Studies. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791451014. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- Ramanujachary, N. C. (1993). A Lonely Disciple. Adyar: Theosophical Pub. House. OCLC 30518824. Retrieved 18 December 2018.