യതിചരിതം

by Nithyachaithanya yati /നിത്യചൈതനയ യതി

Yaticharitam (യതിചരിതം) is the autobiography of guru Nithyachaithanya Yati. He started writing it in English and continuously wrote the events of 47 years, from his birth till 1971. He couldn't finish it as he was hectic with some important projects. Following his instruction, his disciple Dr. Peter Oppenheimer finished it adding the selected excerpts from Guru Nithya's letters. After Guru's Samadhi an English version of his autobiography was released from Narayana Gurukulam tiltled 'Love and Blessings'. Later his disciples Sadhu Gopidas and Mahilamani translated his autobiography and added many excerpts from his write-ups in Malayalam and finished it in 2002. Malayalapadanagaveshana Kendram published it on 14nth June, 2003.
This autobiography reveals the transformation of Guru Nithya from a shy child towards one of the most influential spiritual figure, philosopher and academician of Modern India. And reading this book gives a greater insight to the reader through which one would be able to differentiate between the modern day Godmen and real spiritual figures of India.

656 pages, Hardcover

First published June 14, 2003

About the author

Nitya was born as Jayachandran Panicker on 2.11.1924 [1] in the matriarchal compound of Vakayar, near Konni, Kerala, South India, as the first son to Vamakshi Amma and her husband, the poet Raghavan Panicker. As a youth, Nitya left home and wandered India for eight years as a mendicant, meeting and studying with Sufi, Jain and Buddhist teachers, as well as [Mahatma Gandhi] and Hindu masters such as [Ramana Maharshi] and Nityananda. After attaining his master's degree in social psychology at Bombay University, he continued his spiritual search in earnest. Among other posts, he served as director of the Indian Foundation for Psychic Research in New Delhi in the mid-1960s, charged with investigating the claims of yogis and fakirs. In 1951, he had accepted Nataraja Guru as his spiritual preceptor and after Nataraja Guru died in 1973, he became the Guru of the Narayana Gurukula. Throughout his life he has been instrumental in sustaining Narayana Guru's legacy as the emancipator of women and eradicator of caste distinctions, as well as interpreting his unsurpassed mystical vision for the modern seeker of truth. He traveled throughout the world as a teacher, with a special flair for the meaning of the Bhagavad Gita and the Bible, and continued to welcome seekers of truth to his retreat at the Fernhill Gurukula, near Ooty, until his death on 14.5.1999