| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| INDIA AND HINDUISM, THE SPIRITUAL TRADITION | |
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decided to search out the works of Ganapati Muni, particularly on
the Vedas, as he was reputed to be a Vedic scholar as well. I asked
M.P. Pandit about Ganapati and whether his Vedic work was important.
He said that there was little about the Vedas in the scattered works
of Ganapati, though Ganapati did accept an exalted status for the
Vedic mantras. I asked at the Ramanashram about Ganapati and his
Vedic works but at first nothing came of it.
In 1992, I came in contact with K. Natesan, who in his eighties, was one of the oldest living disciples of Ganapati and Ramana. When Natesan discovered my interest in Ganapati he revealed his great secret. He had collected Ganapati’s work for decades. Besides copies of Ganapati's printed works, most of which were out of print; he had painstakingly transcribed Ganapati’s handwritten manuscripts and gathered nearly all of them. He had much material that even M.P. Pandit never knew about, including extensive works on the Vedas by Ganapati. He happily made copies of all these works for me and I took them back home to America to study. Natesan guided me to Ganapati and became a source of his grace and his influence. |
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