In 1959 Atmananda died at Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala. Later on, he once said that a profession within the police or the military offers an ideal foundation for a spiritual sadhana, because such a profession offers in particular the maximum obstacles and temptations.
He continued to work in the Police Department up to 1939. He assumed the name Sri Atmananda and began teaching. In 1923 he came to realise his true Nature. Later on having become a teacher himself, he would pass on to others only the jnana-aspect, and even criticise both the bhakti and raja yoga aspects. He later stated, “This paralyzed my ego."īecause of this encounter, he started a sadhana, which contained both bhakti- and raja-yoga as well as pure jnana. Krishna Menon was particularly touched by the utmost humility of this teacher. 2 They met during the course of one night only. One day in 1919 he met such a teacher, one Swami Yogananda, who lived in Calcutta. He once said that in his early life he prayed at length to encounter a Sat-guru, a Teacher in the true sense of the word. After completing a study of law he became a Government Advocate and Inspector and District Superintendent of Police. Krishna Menon was born in 1883 in Peringara, near Tiruvalla in the state of Travancore ( now a part of today’s Kerala). Now we will discuss the third one of the ‘Great Three’, the three truly great Advaita teachers of the twentieth century,: Sri Atmananda, or Sri Krishna Menon. In the preceding articles both Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spoke about this phenomenon. In the two preceding parts of “‘I’ is a door” 1 attention was paid to the remarkable phenomenon that the word ‘I’, may be referring to a limited and bound entity, as well as to That which is infinite Light, sheer Freedom.
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