4 In 1959 Atmananda died at Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala. Later on, he once said that a profession within the police or the military offers an ideal foundation for a spiritual sadhana, because such a profession offers in particular the maximum obstacles and temptations. He continued to work in the Police Department up to 1939. He assumed the name Sri Atmananda and began teaching. 3 In 1923 he came to realise his true Nature. Later on having become a teacher himself, he would pass on to others only the jnana-aspect, and even criticise both the bhakti and raja yoga aspects. He later stated, “This paralyzed my ego.'īecause of this encounter, he started a sadhana, which contained both bhakti- and raja-yoga as well as pure jnana. Krishna Menon was particularly touched by the utmost humility of this teacher. 2 They met during the course of one night only. One day in 1919 he met such a teacher, one Swami Yogananda, who lived in Calcutta. He once said that in his early life he prayed at length to encounter a Sat-guru, a Teacher in the true sense of the word. After completing a study of law he became a Government Advocate and Inspector and District Superintendent of Police. Krishna Menon was born in 1883 in Peringara, near Tiruvalla in the state of Travancore ( now a part of today’s Kerala). Now we will discuss the third one of the ‘Great Three’, the three truly great Advaita teachers of the twentieth century,: Sri Atmananda, or Sri Krishna Menon. In the preceding articles both Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spoke about this phenomenon.

In the two preceding parts of “‘I’ is a door” 1 attention was paid to the remarkable phenomenon that the word ‘I’, may be referring to a limited and bound entity, as well as to That which is infinite Light, sheer Freedom. The following article constitutes part 3 of 4 entitled 'I' is a Door'. Link to entry in See the section on the teaching of.

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