Confessions, Upadesh and Talks - Softcover

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Language: English
Pages: 319


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From a terrorist revolutionary sentenced to a long prison term to a spiritual ascetic and teacher would seem to many to be a far cry indeed. Yet this is exactly what happened in the case of Sri Sadguru Omkar who is today a revered octogenarian Saint who has his Ashram opposite the Nandi Hills in Kolar district’ wrote Sri Dharma Vira, Governor of Karnataka in 1970.

Nilkantha Brahmachari - Sadguru Omkar’s former name - was born on 4th December 1889 in Tanjore in an orthodox brahmin family. From a very young age in his high school, he was involved in national revolutionary activities. Their group in South India was closely connected with the Jugantar group of Bengal. Because of his activities, he had to take asylum in the French territory of Pondicherry. He was one of the group along with the poet Subrahmanya Bharati, who received Aurobindo Ghosh at Pondicherry on 4th April 1910. He was closely connected with the Mopla agrarian revolution in Kerala.

His group published the Communist Manifesto in South even before the Communist Revolution in Russia. He was the first accused in the Ash murder case and was arrested in Kolkata by Teggart. He was in prison for more than eleven years.

In jail, the transformation from a revolutionary to a spiritual Sadhaka took place as vividly described in his notes which he later collected as ‘Confessions on the way towards Peace’ now being published. After coming out of the jail, he took the “Confessions” to Sri Aurobindo, who wrote a small foreword, the next day.

After going through a spiritual itinerary, Sadguru Omkar settled down at the lower Nandi Hills in 1930 and built up a small ashram around a dilapidated Shiva Temple - whi

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