Obeisance to Shri Ra GANAPATHI (Jananam 1 September 1935 – Moksham 20 February 2012), prolific Indian Writer and compiler of the speeches of Paramacharya titled “தெய்வத்தின் குரல்” Deivathin Kural” (Voice of Bhagawan), on His Mukthi Day today as per the Date of attaining it. 
1/Ganapati’s father was C.V. Ramachandra Iyer, honors degree holder in mathematics, vedic scholar, and official in the department of commercial tax, both under the British and the post-independence Indian governments.
2/ Ganapati’s mother was Jayalakshmi, a pious lady who hailed from a family of lawyers. Ganapati’s only sibling is Thripurasundari Subramanian. Ganapati was a student of Hindu High School and later the Presidency College, Madras. He was an honors graduate in English Literature.
3/Ganapati was a student of Hindu High School&later the Presidency College, Madras. He was an honors graduate in English Literature. After a brief stint as reporter, he joined Kalki, the Tamil magazine. A suggestion letter written to MS Subbulakshmi proved to be a life changer.
4/Kalki Sadasivam, who read the letter, immediately invited Ganapati to join Kalki. He also assisted Rajaji in the editorial functions of his journal Swarajya. He had contributed to editorial and music reviews in Kalki and had written under the pen-name of Kanya.
5/ He regularly contributed articles and advised artists’ features on religion, temples, and epic-episodes.
6/ One of his most outstanding and much-quoted articles was the one on Kanchi Mahaswamigal delineation of the Muthuswami Dikshitar classic Shree Subrahmanyaya namaste to Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar.
7/ His 1st big work was Jaya Jaya Shankara,published as a serial in Kalki in 1962.Reading about Adi Shankara&his philosophy of Advaita,in this book, people went to meet him for clarifications, and were taken by surprise to see a youngster as the author of such a complex subject.
8/ After working at Kalki for over ten years, he went on to write several other serialized biographies of saints like Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Sarada Devi, and Meera.
9/ Over another 25 years, after leaving Kalki, he wrote a number of books and articles on deeds of religious luminaries like Sri Kanchi Mahaswamigal, called Deivathin Kural meaning The voice of GOD, Sathya Sai Baba,Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi,Yogi Ramsuratkumar, and others
10/Even the "rationalist" Anna had praised Ra. Ganapathi’s way of writing. In ‘Than Varalaru,’ published by Bharati Pathippakam, in one of the chapters, where he writes about the loss of his beloved mother, Anna refers to the serial Ra. Ganapathi was writing in Kalki.
11/ The former President R. Venkataraman described his ‘Deivathin Kural‘ as ‘Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Upanishad.
12/ Among his spiritual treatises bringing the words of a great Master to the world, there have been some supreme classics like “Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”, “and others.
13/In his room calendar, the picture for the month of January was that of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. When the month of February came around, he asked his attendant not to change the page of the calendar. He wanted Sri Ramana’s picture to remain for the next month as well
14/Ra Ganapathi died on 20 February 2012 on a Maha Sivarathri Day. That night of Sivaratri, at around ten minutes past seven, he sat &fixed his gaze on the calender picture of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi&became One with that Light!Om Nama Sivaya! Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!
15/Ganapathy, who remained a bachelor, was himself a sage, who shunned publicity.
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