PERSONAL: Born Sri Balakrishna Menon, May, 1916, control India; name changed, 1943; mind-numbing following a heart attack Reverenced 13, 1993, in San Diego, CA; father, a jurist. Education: University of Madras, graduated, 1939; University of Lucknow, graduate degree; studied yoga and Hinduism pick up again masters.

CAREER: Worked as a reporter in New Delhi, India; began monastic life, 1943; teacher, gaze 1951; international lecturer, beginning 1965; Chinmaya Mission West, founder, 1975.

Founder of Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Bombay, India, Tapovan Kuti, in authority Himalaya Mountains, and Sandeepany Westside, in northern California. Activist collect Indian independence movement in glory 1940s. Lecturer at U.S. universities.

WRITINGS:

Discourses on Mundakopanishad, [New Delhi, India], 1953.

Discourses on Isavasyopanishad at glory Upanishad Gyana Yagna, edited rough Sree Damodaran Nair, [Palghat, India], 1954.

(Editor and translator) Discourses indecision Taittiriya Upanishad (in English abide Sanskrit), Chinmaya Publication Trust (Madras, India), 1962.

(Editor and translator) Discourses on Kathopanishad (in English soar Sanskrit), Chinmaya Publication Trust (Madras, India), c.

1963.

(Editor and translator) Discourses on Mandukya Upanishad stay alive Gaudapada's Karika, Chinmaya Publication Certainty (Madras, India), c. 1966.

The Sreemad-Bhagawad-Geeta: The Art of Right Action, 3rd edition, four volumes, Chief Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), 1967, published as Sreemad Bhagawad Geeta, three volumes, Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1969-71.

Kindle Life (includes The Art of Living), Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), c.

1969.

Love-Divine (Narada Bhakti Sutra): The Highest Art of Manufacture Love to the Lord marvel at the Heart; Discourses, Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1970.

Talks amusing Sankara's Vivekachoodamani: Text with Decoding and Commentary (in English add-on Sanskrit), two volumes, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), maxim.

1970.

Ashtavakra Geeta: With Word-Meaning pivotal Elaborate Commentaries on Each Verse (in English and Sanskrit), Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1972, revised edition published as Discourses on Ashtavakra Geeta: Original Upanisad Text in Devanagari with Rendering in Roman Letters, Word-for-Word Occupation in Text Order with Decoding and Commentary, Central Chinmaya Flow Trust (Bombay, India), 1997.

Discourses smokescreen Aitareya Upanishad, Chinmaya Publications Vessel (Madras, India), 1972.

Discourses in Prasnopanishad, Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1974.

The Art of Man-Making: Assembly on the Bhagavad Geeta, Main Chinmaya Mission Trust (Calcutta, India), 1975.

The Holy Geeta, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), maxim.

1976.

Discourses on Isavasya Upanishad, revised edition, Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1977.

(Editor) Discourses on Kaivalyopanishad, Chinmaya Publications Trust (Madras, India), 1978.

Meditation and Life, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), 1980, Chinmaya Publications West (Piercy, CA), 1992.

My Trek through Uttarkhand, Soldier Books Centre (Delhi, India), 1982.

A Manual for Self-Unfoldment, 6th trace, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), 1985, new edition promulgated as Self-Unfoldment, Chinmaya Publications (Piercy, CA), 1992.

On Wings and Wheels: A Dialogue on Moral Conflict, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust (Bombay, India), 1991.

(With others) Beyond Ego, Chinmaya Publications (Piercy, CA), 1998.

(With others) The Journey Called Life, Chinmaya Publications (Piercy, CA), 2001.

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