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THE AUTHOR
Shri Daivarata is one of the few veteran Vedic scholars in India whese knowledge and insight of the ancient Indian Texts and their liberal interpretation are complete. Nay, he is more: he is the only Rishi in perhaps thirty or forty centuries after the age of the Vedie seers, to whom revelation in pristine Vedic Sanskrit was granted in a state of Yogic trance. At the time of the revelation Shri Daivarata was only 25, and his knowledge of Sanskrit, not to mention Vedic Sanskrit, was at best scrappy. It was only later that he mastered the Vedic lore in all its branches.
Born in Gokarn in 1891, in a family of traditional Vedic pandits, Daivarata was drawn towards mystic realization even as a boy. He left home and wandered off with various saints and sadhakas until he came under the influence of the great Vasishtha Ganapati Muni, the direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai, and accompanied him to various places of pilgrimage as a handy man. Vasishtha was an outstanding Sanskrit scholar and poet of his time but Daivarata seemed to have acquired not much of this scholarship until the Guru found his disciple being suddenly chosen to be the vehicle of Revelation. This circumstance has been vividly described by the Muni in his introduction to the “ ChhandoDarshana”.
Daivarata, now hoary with age, has still an extra-ordinary power of memory and can quote any text and its parallels without referring to the books. He can speak half a dozen Indian languages including Sanskrit and Hindi fluently. He has been awarded various titles by learned assemblies all over India and today runs an Ashrama in his native place, Gokarn.
