AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Thaa Swamiji (K.M.Thangarasu) is a voluntarily retired police officer who took Kriya yoga initiation from 'Sri M' of Satsang foundation Bangalor. He lives a life of embodied liberation with perpetual peace perennial bliss and precious liberty.

Hello Swamiji,

How are you and how was your day?

Fine. Plesant weather and good day

1. Can you tell us about yourself please.

Born in Agricultural family in the village Kapplankarai, Pollachi taluk, Tamilnadu.

Born on 8-2-1950. On record 7-11-1948

Widower

Education: B.SC., B.L., M.B.A.,

Retired voluntarily from Police service in the year 1992

Worked as lawyer for couple of years.

Served as a social worker to champion the cause of formers for a decade in various position.

Practicising Kriya Yoga of Maha Avathar Babaji order from 2003.

Self enquiry from 2006.

Self realization 2010.

Yogi and spiritual guide.

2. How did you develop interest in spiritualism?

Its all the continuation of the past births.

The world and the experience taught impermancy in every aspect.

Met my guru Sri M of Satsang foundation, Bangalore in the month February 2003.

I was initiated in Kriya Yoga and vigorously practiced for 12 years.

Police work is investigation of a case to find facts.

Self enquiry is to find the truth, the essential nature of which is existence knowledge bliss.

So the spiritual path was made easy by the grace of my Guru's guided by the course of destiny.

3. What made you seek that path?

It is intutive and sudden happening.

Reading spiritual books and world experience has driven me to the corner of spiirutality

4. How was your journey through that?

Excellent and blissful. It is natural and easy walk.

Everything came on its own accord without effort.

It is intervention of grace of guru's and divinity.

The Guru's took me through the travel holding my hand and the divinity carrying me on its shoulders.

5. When did you start writing?

From the year 2012. I write whenever i get the assistance to work in the computer. I dictate and the process goes on.

Sometimes its stops for want of gratutious assistance.

6. Who has been your inspiration?

Absolutely my Guru Sri 'M', Guru parambara, his Holliness Maheswaranath his Holliness Maha avathar Babaji, Swami Chinmayanandhaji, Koilur Guru hierarchy.

And all Guru's from Datchinamoorthy downwards.

7. Have you written any books apart from spiritual ones?

So far no. My auto biography is in progress.

Cop to Pure consciousness – a story of transformation.

8. Tell us about your book "The bliss of supreme knowledge".

It is compendium of four Tamil vedantha books of Koilur order viz Nana jeevavatha katalai, Geethasara thalatu, Sasivannan botham and Kaivalya navaneetham, transalted in English.

The first book teaches 36 principles from the Earth to Brahman in detail and how to be liberated by negating all the 35 principles and to remain in Absolute Consciousness the Brahman.

The second book teaches the essence of the spiritual wisdom of self knolwedge as stated by Lord Krishna. The important aspects of spirituality is well illustrated by suitable illustrations. Its specifies the character quality and words spoken by enlightent person describing his essential nature. It helps to identify a self realized Guru.

The third book narrates the histroy of a worst sinner Sasi vannan who was inflicated by all the diseases (4448) and how he gets cured by the divine vision of Guru and liberated by the teachings of the whole spiritual wisdom

The fourth book is the master piece, a hand book for the spiritual knowledge of the indian seers. It is in a lucid language so that even a dullard can easily understand. Many aspects regarding Reality or delibrated and about 63 doubts are elucidated.

These four books are sufficient to learn the spiriutal wisdom and by practice it becomes experiencial to attain liberation and remain in the essential nature of the pure Absolute Consciousness Brahman.

Tamil text are included in the end of book.

Extensive commentaries are given to the technical terms.

BY REPEATED READING OF THREE PAGES A DAY WILL MAKE EVEN A DULLARD TO UNDERSTAND, PRACTICE AND ATTAIN LIBERATION THROUGH SELF ENQUIRY AND SELF REALIZATION.

9. Is there any heart touching incident in your life?

There are many. Those may be revealed in my auto-biography.

I mention one incident here. In my police service i served in Police computer for six years. A blind man came to meet me through the house owner requesting for financial help. We both (me and the house owner) promised to help him. He is not blind by birth, it is incurred by the infection of small pox. One girl who loved him deeply before he was not blind, married him without abondaning him because he became blind. I admired the depth of love. He was blessed with two childern. He was making candles by hand. He needed a machine for making candles. The house owner later abused and humilated him suspecting his ability. He declined his financial help by valuing his self confidence and prestige. Me and my wife liked him very much because he valued his self dignity more than anything else. He requested me to bare the full financial assistance and promised to return money within a short period. He said that he will work hard to protect and feed his wife and family. We are very much moved by the courage, duty consciousness and love towards the wife and family of this blind man. He could not repay within the stipulated period. But to our surprise he fullfilled his promise in a year. The blind man is honest, valued his self dignity prepared to work hard for the family and above all kept his promise, a rare good gentleman in the midst of cheats and lazy bones.

10. How did you get this idea of translating tamil books?

The great poet Bharathi has written in one of his poems regarding his vision that the sound of Tamil, sweet honey like language shall spread the whole world through its rich literatures of all disciplines.

The idea is to target the young persons in the age group of 20 to 40 to make them spiritual, to be good and too good by leading an altruistic life, transcending caste, language, region nationality religion, race and to remain in oneness realizing the nature of their soul. The mission is to guide them to live a liberated life of perenial bliss, perpetual peace and precious liberaty.

11. Can you share with us your experience as a police officer?

It is much interesting. I never foistered any case. Iam obedinent to the officiers only for legal and rightous actions. No officer can ill treat me. Any one can come straight to me with their genuine problems for salvation. Treated all the politician in the same yard stick, easily accessiable kind and firm. Always championed the cause of poor and downdrodden and never yielded to any kind of pressure to let them down.

12. Was there any interesting case during your service period?

Many. I refer here one. I was serving as a circle inspector of police law and order at Salem district. There was decoity by breaking open of an iron safe in a branch of central bank of Salem district, near Attur. The stolen articles were jewells worth of Rs.25 lacs ( Now may be more than ten crores). The occurance was in the jurisdiction of Thammapatti police station. The investigating officer located the criminals who are migrated from Tamilnadu and settled in the city of Kolkatta and various other cities. The superintendent of Police formed a team of six efficient police personnel with one DSP and one circleinspector, one Sub insepctor, one head constable and two constable. We are assisted by one local informant who can identify decoits. I was the circle inspector in the team. The central bank send us to kolkatta by flight from Bangaluru to Kolkatta. We reached Kolkatta by ten pm in the night and settled in a lodge only in the early morning 4 A.M. I studied the case diary and found number 7 is operating in the case. I named it operation 7 for this mission. We immediately proceeded with a search for the decoits and jewells. Our team headed by the sub inspector and other three police personnal arrested a key accused. I have to go alone in a very dangerious criminal den in the Kolkatta city where it is difficulties even for the local police to make arrest. I ventured there with our local informant and another informant and an adolecant having my name Thangarasu as his living in Kolkatta. I had to walk two miles in the rain and arrested another person using my common sense and ingeunity. It is a long adventrous story. The person arrested is an important criminal who can identify another criminal in Rurekela (Iron city). We have to travel 200 miles in the immediate night and successfully arrested the criminal with major portion of the jewels burried beneath the earth in his hut. In the same day we returned back to Kolkatta and took the night flight to Bangalore and by Police van from Bangalore to Salem. The interesting point is in the operation 7 we have to spent two days and three nights without sleep. The rest of the jewels and the other criminals were in Madya pradesh. They were later arrested by another team remaining jewels were recovered. I have to cut short many adventerous incident to avoid a lenghty story.

13. I would like to ask, "Who are you".

I am that I am. Sivananda rubam Sivoham. I am Absolute Consciousness, the essential nature of existence-knowledge-bliss.

14. What are your other interests?

The interest of any realized person is to share his experience and knowledge with the real seekers as welfare of the world. I would like to establish an Ashram with the help of patrons and public funds. I have no other interest. I eat, walk and sleep spiritual.

15. Which is your favourite book?

Kaivalya navaneetham (The Butter of liberation)

16. Who is your role model?

My guru and mentor Sri "M" and swami Chinmayananda

17. Who is your favourite author or poet?

Sri "M". Books: 1. Apprenticed to a Himalaiyan Master. 2. Thus spake the Master.

18. Few words for your readers?

Dear readers i love you all. Iam always available for spiritual and wordly guidance and counselling. Kriya yoga initiation will be given to the deserving. The body, the world and the wealth etc are impermanent. Be in the world and enjoy all the creations of Easwara as a witness. Work hard without any expectation. Serve a society even by sacrificing your personal interest. Be in the world and not allow the world to enter in you. Be good and do good. The object of human life is self realization and you keep moving towards it. You need not forego your needs like good food, clothing, shelter and sex. You free yourself from the chains entangling you which are your creations like desire, egoism, anger and clinging for your false notions etc including six foes of human life like lust, anger etc., Human life with sound body and senses are rare to achieve and very difficult to identify a right realized guru and good spiritual books for guidance. Avoid false Guru's. It is the blind leading the blind and both falling in a deep pit. I advice the readers to read not more than three pages a day of this book. Repeated reading with the help of commentary will certainly make every one to comprehend the spiritual knowledge narrated in this book and the practices makes one to attain liberation and joyful living.

19. Where can readers connect with you?

My computer operation and sending emails are difficult without assistance.

Contact me in person or by phone (Mobile: 9715055552) between 6 pm to 7 pm to clear doubts. Contact mail:

Thank you Dr.Niveditha BDS.,for your good rating for the book (4/5) and excellent comments.

Thank you Swamiji. It was a pleasant experience talking with you..