Volume 2 : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light
Volume 2 includes multiple books : Lights on the Teachings (2), Lights on the Ancients (2), Lights on the Fundamentals, Flame of White Light, The way of the Light.
Sastriar started Sanskrit at the age of five and in his eighth year his father placed the Ramayana in his hands. He did the Veda-adhyayana, studied the Kavyas and Vyakarana, all under his father from whom he also received instructions in religious worships, including Mantra Sadhana. Some time after his father's demise, Sastriar came in contact with Sri Vasishtha Ganapati Muni. From that date his earlier equipment began to grow in intensity and in volume by wide reading. It was from him that he learnt to follow many lines of Sastraic thought as well as investigation into the meaning of the hymns of the Rig Veda. Though as a boy he used to write verses without much effort it was only after coming under the influence of the Guru his poetic taste developed and he could compose verses with ease. But his interest in life took him in other directions of thought. In 1931, at the instance of his Guru, he wrote the Sat-Darsana Bhasya in Sanskrit and later some Commentaries12 on some of his (Guru's) works.
Sastriar was never an inmate of the Ashram at Tiruvannamalai, though he sat under the feet of the Maharshi, by frequent visits to his abode on the hills and later also when he came down, but not so frequently then. But he has not been connected with the Ashram as it was not formed at that time.
12 July 1948
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