Shuddhananda Bharati
Shuddhananda Bharati when he was about 80 years old
Born (1897-05-11 ) 11 May 1897Died 7 March 1990(1990-03-07) (aged 92) Religion
Hinduism
Quotation
Peace for All, Prosper for All.
Kavi Yogi Maharishi Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati (11 May 1897 – 7 March 1990) was an Indian philosopher and poet. His teachings are focused mainly on the search for God in
Self , through the
Sama Yoga practice he created.
Biography
Bharati was born in
Sivaganga in
South India , and attained
Jeeva Samadhi in nearby
Sholapuram . He spent 25 years in silence in
Pondicherry from 1925 to 1950, in the Ashram of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Mirra Alfassa . From the early 1950s to the 1970s, he lived beside the
IIT near
Adyar, Chennai . Bharati always lived alone, without an Ashram. He founded
Shuddhananda Bharati Desiya Vidyalayam High School in 1979.
[1]
Several of Bharati's disciples contributed to the construction of the main building of the school at Sholapuram in 1992.
Works
Bharati wrote over 250 published works: 173 in
Tamil , fifty in
English , ten in
French , four in
Hindi and three in
Telugu . He was also conversational in
Sanskrit ,
Kannada ,
Malayalam and
Urdu .
[2] He is the first translator to have done both verse and prose renderings of the
Tirukkural into English.
[3] He also translated the novels of
Victor Hugo , the plays of
Moliere and
Racine , and
Dante 's
Divine Comedy into Tamil.
[2]
In his magnum opus Bharata Shakti , Bharati describes his ideal of "One humanity living in communion with a single God in a world transformed". The full work includes epic texts, lyrical dramas, operas, comedies, pastoral novels, news, biographies, comments on illustrated works, essays, poems in French corrected directly by the Mother, Sacred Odes, walks, Rondels and triplets. For this work, Bharati received the
Raja Rajan Award from the
Tamil University in
Tanjore in 1984, conferring upon him the title of
Doctor of Literature .
His autobiography, The Pilgrim Soul includes encounters with well-known personalities of the past century, including
Annie Besant ,
Sri Aurobindo ,
Meher Baba ,
Shirdi Sai Baba ,
V. V. S. Aiyar ,
Sringeri Sharada Peetham ,
Ramana Maharshi ,
C. V. Raman ,
Subramanya Bharathi ,
Sivananda ,
Romain Rolland ,
Jean Herbert and others.
In English
Our Religion , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 171 pages,
ISBN
978-2-9700391-7-4
Yoga for All , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 152 pages,
ISBN
978-2-9700391-5-0
The Divine Master , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 162 pages,
ISBN
978-2-9700391-8-1
The Secrets of Sadhana , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 95 pages,
ISBN
978-2-9700391-9-8
Guiding Lights , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 130 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-00-8
Gospel of Perfect Life , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 226 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-01-5
Cosmic Riddles , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 144 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-02-2
Mystic Treasure , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 230 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-03-9
Pilgrim Soul , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 503 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-04-6
Mahatma Ramalingam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 164 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-05-3
Sama Yoga , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 172 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-07-7
Secrets of Sama Yoga , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 183 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-08-4
Tamil Sentiment , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 202 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-09-1
Poet Nightingale Bharathiyar , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 213 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-10-7
Sri Krishna and His Gospel , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 171 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-11-4
Silambu Selvam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 369 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-12-1
Secrets of Yoga , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 236 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-13-8
Alvar Saint , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 165 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-15-2
Thirukkural , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 185 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-17-6
The Soul sings , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 157 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-18-3
The Yoga Master , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 189 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-23-7
The Revelation of Saint Meikandar , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 103 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-27-5
The Magic Weapon of Shiva , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 145 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-29-9
The Delightful Tamil Garden , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 120 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-28-2
Art Temple , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 296 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-30-5
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 1 , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 191 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-31-2
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 2 , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 174 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-32-9
Adi Shankara Bhagavan , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 193 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-34-3
Bharata Shakti, Canto one, Emanation of the Pure One , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 285 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-40-4
Bharata Shakti, Canto two, Gowri Kandam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 430 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-41-1
Bharata Shakti, Canto three, Sadhana Kandam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 471 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-42-8
Bharata Shakti, Canto four, Satyan at Danavam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 371 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-43-5
Bharata Shakti, Canto five, Victory of Shuddha Shakti , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 313 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-44-2
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 133 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-50-3
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Live in Yoga with the Divine, a Life Divine ! , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 113 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-51-0
The Secrets of Shiva , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 119 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-55-8
His sixtieh birthday celebration , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 131 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-56-5
Illumination Hymn and Conference , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 133 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-57-2
Voice of Tayumanar , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 205 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-59-6
Poet's Forum, Kavi Arangam , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 144 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-60-2
The Arrival of Buddha , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 101 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-61-9
Fasting and Divinity , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 104 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-62-6
The Grand Epic of Saivism , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 257 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-63-3
Songs for Children , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 100 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-64-0
Essence of Religion , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 127 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-65-7
William Blake , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 104 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-66-4
Francis Thompson , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 97 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-67-1
Kama Thilagan and Vanarasu , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 137 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-68-8
Chariot of Life , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 207 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-69-5
Vivekanandam and The Story of our Independence , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 137 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-70-1
Fire of Tamil, Thamizhkanal , L'Auberson, Éditions ASSA, 207 pages,
ISBN
978-2-940393-71-8
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