New Member Introduction - Sri Sundararajan Mohan

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Excerpts from the Introduction -

 

 

As a brief introduction, my name is Sundararajan Mohan, belonging to

the Koundinya Gotram from a Brahmin Smartha family hailing from

Vangal in Trichy District. I reside at Bangalore and aged 65 years,

am completely retired and of late have been trying to grasp some

spiritual ideas.

 

I spent considerable part of my working life (I was primarily a

manufacturing man ) in Bombay, Delhi and Nasik. I graduated in

electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1960.........

 

My spiritual curiosity was awakened quite early in this life.

Although my maternal grandparents who lived in Bangalore were quite

involved in traditional religious observances ( my grandfather , Sri

A. V. Ramanathan, was a Shishya of Sri Chandrashekara Bharathi of

Sringeri ), I grew up in Kolar Gold Fields where my father worked in

the gold mines. I was surrounded by English children and Anglo-

Indians in the colony and apart from one opportunity to listen to

Sengalipuram Sri Anantharama Dikshitar on `Narayaneeyam', I had

little opportunity to get involved in Hindu spirituality........

 

In Kharagpur, a year later, I came in touch with Swami Vivekananda

and during a summer vacation could get the chance to hear Swami

Chinmayananda on " Karma Yoga ". All this made a deep impression.

Subsequently, during a sojourn of five years in the UK, I got a

chance to read a lot of Swami Vivekananda and became deeply

interested in the Gita..............

 

In 1980 I took Diksha from Swami Vireswarananda Maharaj at the

Ramakrishna Mission, read all about Sri Ramakrishna and visited

Shirdi.....................

 

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