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Dear Moderator,

Radhe Krishna!

 

 

Thank you so much for admitting me as a member.

 

I would like to give my introduction to the group, as I am a new member.

 

Born in Kerala (the erstwhile Travancore State) as the only son of a

Sanskrit scholar by name Mahopaddhyaya K.G. Vancheswara Sastry, I had my

formal education at Mavelikara and Trivandrum. My career was made

in Bombay when I joined the Esso Refinery (Stanvac at that time), had

15 years of service in the operations and left to take up a more

senior job in Madras Refineries, Madras. Here also, I was in

Refinery operations, and retired as a Senior Manager in 1989.

 

My father had co-authored a Malayalam commentary on Narayaneeyam, which

was published in the 1930s, and was very well-received at that time, and

had won appreciation of all intellectual giants of that era. It was

named " Bhaktaranjini commentary " and was an exhaustive commentary, the

like of which had not been attempted by anyone else in the past.

As the readership of this scholarly commentary was limited to the

Malayalam reading devotees, a few like-minded friends including me,

thought of creating an English version of the same and present it to

posterity. . Shri. S.N. Sastri, who had himself written a book on

Narayaneeyam in 1988 and published thru the Chinmaya Mission agreed to

edit the Vedanta aspects of this book also. After 6 years of toil on

our home pcs, we published the book in July, 2005. Swami Dayananda

Saraswati of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, who was deeply impressed by the

book, wrote the Foreword, and His Holiness Himself released the book in

Bangalore in July 2005. The book is a no-profit venture and aims only

at philanthropy if any profit accrues by chance.

 

The literary review on the book in three volumes, running over 1500

pages, appeared in the Hindu of the issue of 14th June 2005. The book

is moderately priced at Rs. 800/- for a set of three volumes. There

have been many buyers from India, United states and other countries, and

they all have appreciated the book.

 

If anybody would like to see the commentary, he can access the web-site

www.narayaneeyam.com which gives all details of the book, and four

chapters of the commentary, dasakams 1, 34, 35 and 100, as specimens.

 

I have settled at Bangalore. I actively participate in Bhagavatam,

..Narayaneeyam, Bhagavadgita, Vishnu Sahasranamam, etc., which is my only

preoccupation in life. Spreading the importance of Bhakti-yoga is my

ambition in life.

 

Radhe Krishna!

Regards

K.V. Gopalakrishna gopalakrishna.kv