Bhagavan's role in the editing of

Guru Vachaka Kovai

 

 

     The three of us who translated Padamalai (T. V. Venkatasubramanian, Robert Butler and myself) have spent the last three years working on a new translation of Guru Vachaka Kovai, Muruganar's collection of Ramana Maharshi's teachings that he recorded in Tamil during the last twenty-five years of Bhagavan's life. We hope that it will be in print in a few months' time.
    Bhagavan showed a great interest in this work and made extensive revisions to it. In this article, which will appear in the October 2007 edition of The Mountain Path, I have discussed the origin of the work and given many instances of how Bhagavan's editing and revisions changed the meaning of some of the verses.
    This article is a much abbreviated version of the introduction that I wrote for our new edition of Guru Vachaka Kovai. All the verses that appear in it have been taken from our new translation.
 

Guru Vachaka Kovai - Article for Mountain Path

 

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