Extracts from Guru Vachaka Kovai

 

     A few days ago I made a selection of verses from Guru Vachaka Kovai and sent them out to a few of my friends as a Guru Purnima offering. Guru Vachaka Kovai is a Tamil work that contains over 1,200 sayings of Ramana Maharshi that were recorded in Tamil verse by Muruganar. The three of us who translated and edited Padamalai (myself, T. V. Venkatasubramanian and Robert Butler) are making a new translation of Guru Vachaka Kovai which we hope will be completed sometime next year. Here, meanwhile, are some of the verses we have already completed.

 

Selected Verses on the Guru from Guru Vachaka Kovai (PDF)