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Vethathiri strove to find answers to three questions: “What is God?” “What is life?” “Why is poverty in the world?” The search to find these answers as well as to further his lot in life led him into various fields of endeavour, including becoming a qualified practitioner of two systems of Indian indigenous medicine, Ayurveda and Siddha, and certified practitioner Homeopathy as well. He authored about 80 books in Tamil and English, and continued to write until his death. His language and attitudes are contemporary, non-sectarian and non-dogmatic.

In the Indian philosophical tradition, his philosophy corresponds to pure Advaita In Sanskrit duvaitam means two ad means simply says that the god is one. Shri Vethathiri Maharishi wrote over 3000 poems on philosophical subjects. he did not break his family ties or take vows of renunciation, but rather lived in the indigenous Siddha tradition, maintaining family ties. However, he remained a 'householder', i.e.

At the age of fifty, he closed his commercial ventures and devoted himself solely to spiritual service. Maharishi regularly participated in intense meditation and introspection, which he claims brought him full enlightenment at the age of thirty five.

Early lifeĪfter spending several years in various minor employments, he established a textile concern that grew to employ over 2,000 workers on a profit-sharing basis. Shri Vethathiri Maharishi was born on in the village of Guduvancheri, south of Chennai, India, into an indigent weaver's family.

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