Nitya Chaitanya Yati

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Nitya Chaitanya Yati
Personal
Born
K. R. Jayachandra Panicker

(1924-11-02)2 November 1924
Mlanthadom Murinjakal, Travancore
present day Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India
Died14 May 1999(1999-05-14) (aged 74)
Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India
ReligionHinduism
NationalityIndian
Relatives
PhilosophyVedanta
Religious career
GuruNataraja Guru
AwardsKerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism
Literary works
  • That Alone, the Core of Wisdom
  • Love and Blessings
  • In the Stream of Consciousness
  • Living the Science of Harmonious Union
  • Beyond the door that is Death

Nitya Chaitanya Yati (2 November 1924 – 14 May 1999) was an Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet, best known for his commentaries on Advaita Vedanta as well as his literary criticisms. He was a disciple of Nataraja Guru, the successor to Narayana Guru. Yati published over 140 books in English and Malayalam including a commentary on Darsana Mala of Narayana Guru, titled, Psychology of Darsana Mala. Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their annual award for literary criticism in 1977.

Biography

Nitya Chaitanya Yati was born K. R. Jayachandra Panicker on 2 November 1924[1] at Vakayar, a village in the erstwhile Travancore, now in Pathanamthitta district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Pandalam Raghava Panicker, a poet, teacher , and his wife, Vamakshi Amma[2] and nephew of Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker. After early education by a local teacher by name, Nanu Pillai, he studied at Kulathingal High School from where he passed the SSLC examination. Subsequently, he left home and traveled for the next eight years during which period he learnt Buddhism, Jainism and Sufism and met such people as Mahatma Gandhi and Ramana Maharshi. On his return from his wanderings, he joined Union Christian College, Aluva[3] and earned his graduate degree in philosophy before securing a master's degree in philosophy from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram in 1952.[1]

Yati was influenced by

sanyasa in 1951.[2] After serving as a faculty at the Sree Narayana College, Kollam for a while, he moved to Mumbai to research on the physically challenged until his move to Chennai to teach at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in 1953.[1] He stayed in Chennai till 1955 and returned to Mumbai for further research work before moving to New Delhi in 1963 to join the Institute of Psychiatric and Spiritual Research as its director. Later, he succeeded Nataraja Guru as head of the Narayana Gurukulam, a worldwide contemplative community, after a long apprenticeship.[4] In between, he was also associated with the Indian Council of Medical Research as the head of the division of Yoga and with the East West University,[5] of which he was the founder chairperson.[3]

Nitya Chaitanya Yati died on 14 May 1999, at Fernhill Gurukula of Narayana Gurukula,[6] near Ooty, at the age of 74.[3]

Legacy

Nitya Chaitanya Yati authored over 140 books of which 120 are in Malayalam and the rest in English, covering such topics as philosophy, psychology, social ethics and aesthetics

Sankaracharya[14] and Marxism.[15] Wandering by Hermann Hesse was another work translated by Yati which was published under the title, Deshadanam.[16] His autobiography, Love and Blessings, is a detailed narrative of his life and includes anecdotes and his letters.[17]

Selected bibliography

Works in Malayalam

Works in English

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal". Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Yati - biography" (PDF). aranya.me. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Guru Nitya". narayanagurukula.org. 2 April 2019.
  4. ^ Scott Teitsworth, "Introduction to the American Edition" in "Love and Blessings: The Autobiography of Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati". (Varkala, Kerala, Bainbridge Island, Washington, Portland, Oregon: Narayana Gurukula, 2003), XXVI.
  5. ^ "East-West University". www.narayanagurukula.org. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  6. ^ Digital Malayalam (16 October 2016). "Narayana Gurukulam, Fern Hill, Ooty (Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati Samadhi)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism". Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 2 April 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  8. ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7
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  9. ISBN 978-81-85636-89-4
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  10. OCLC 63517039.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  11. ISBN 978-81-246-0240-9
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  12. ISBN 978-81-246-0008-5
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  13. ISBN 978-0-7069-1129-9
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  14. ISBN 978-81-246-0810-4
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  15. ^ Nityacaitanya Yati (1980). Marxism and Humanist Nonarchy. East-West University of Brahmavidya.
  16. ^ Hermann Hesse; Nitya Chaitanya Yati (translator) (2014). Desadanam. Green Books. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  17. ISBN 097065491X
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External links

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