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Sree Narayana Guru - Life and Times

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Glasenapp does not say anything regarding new religious manifestations in South India which are not such for example is the great Guru, Shri Narayana, whose beneficent spiritual activity has been exercising it's influence during the past forty years in the State of Travancore on nearly two million of his followers (He passed away in 1928). His Teachings, permeated with the philosophy of Sankara, shows evidence of a striking difference of temperament compared with the mystism in Bengal, of which the effusions of love (bhakti) inspire in him a certain mistrust. He was, one might say ,va Jananin of action, a grand religious intellectual, who had a keen living sense of the people and of social necessities. He has contributed greatly to the elevation of the oppressed classes in South India, and his work has been associated at a certain times with that of Gandhi.
Romain Rolland
The Life of Ramakrishna
(Advantage Ashram, Almora 1930)

343 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2018

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1928-ൽ ആലപ്പുഴയിൽ ജനിച്ചു. നാലു വർഷത്തോളം സ്‌കൂളദ്ധ്യാപകൻ. പിന്നീട് വിവിധ ഗവ. കോളജുകളിൽ. എറണാകുളം മഹാരാജാസ് കോളജിൽനിന്ന് മലയാളം പ്രൊഫസറായി റിട്ടയർ ചെയ്തു. 1987-ൽ എറണാകുളത്തുനിന്ന് നിയമസഭയിലേക്ക് തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. പുരോഗമന കലാസാഹിത്യസംഘത്തിന്റെ പ്രസിഡന്റായിരുന്നു. കേരള സാഹിത്യഅക്കാദമി പ്രസിഡന്റായും സേവനമനുഷ്ഠിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ശ്രീനാരായണഗുരു, സഹോദരൻ കെ. അയ്യപ്പൻ, അവധാരണം, മൃത്യുഞ്ജയം കാവ്യജീവിതം, ഉന്നതാത്മാക്കളുടെ ജീവചരിത്രം, എം. ഗോവിന്ദൻ, എത്ര ശോകമയം ലോകം, യുക്തിവാദി എം.സി. ജോസഫ് തുടങ്ങിയവയാണ് മുഖ്യ കൃതികൾ. വയലാർ അവാർഡ്, കേരള സാഹിത്യഅക്കാദമി അവാർഡ്, അബുദാബി അവാർഡ്, പി.കെ. പരമേശ്വരൻനായർ സ്മാരകപുരസ്‌കാരം തുടങ്ങിയ ബഹുമതികൾ ലഭിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.

M. K. Sanu was an Indian Malayalam-language writer, critic, academic, biographer, journalist, orator, social activist and human rights activist. He authored at least 36 books.
Sanu was a permanent member of the International Body for Human Rights, as well as the founding member of the Mithram, a school for the mentally handicapped, in Mulanthuruthy, Ernakulam district, Kerala. He was a member of the award selection committee of the Vayalar Ramavarma Literary Award; however, he resigned in September 2019. In 2011, he won the Padmaprabha Literary Award.

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what einstein said about gandhi is more applicable to narayana guru in my opinion: "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth"
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A scintillating spiritual journey! It awakens the humanity that is dormant in a human being. It enriches the human mind and informs about the right conduct, compassion and every other virtue essential for the happy coexistence of all the beings on this earth.
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