Editor:  viveka

Name:	viveka
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Home Page:	http://www.advaita.org.uk

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Profile

Following an intense scientific-based education through the nineteen sixties, the editor emerged with a fundamental dissatisfaction with the perceived values and belief systems of Western society. Thus began his search for a philosophy that could provide satisfactory answers to the universal questions of life. He joined the Ouspensky influenced School of Economic Science in London in 1972 but left after several years, disillusioned with the lack of rigour and the mystical element. He renewed his involvement with them in the mid-eighties, by which time Sri Shantanand Saraswati, one of the four Indian Shankaracharyas was directing the School along a path influenced by Advaita and Samkhya Yoga. He remained with the School until 1998, by which time he had been acting as a tutor for over five years and was assisting in the teaching of Sanskrit. He left because some of the teaching methods and much of the material diverged from the tenets of pure Advaita.

He is a moderator of the Advaitin Email Group and a member of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation in London, for whom he produced and maintains the website at www.ramana-maharshi.org.uk.

His own website is www.advaita.org.uk This contains essays on topics relating to the spiritual path of Advaita Vedanta together with links to relevant organisations, teachers and resources; details of published book and extensive lists of book recommendations; quotations from past and present sages; books and essays by Ananda Wood including an extensive section on the teachings of Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon; introduction to Sanskrit and ITRANS.

He continues to study extensively and now follows the Direct Path school of Advaita, being particularly influenced by Sri Atmananda.

Educated to degree-level in Chemistry, he has worked for most of his life in computing. He set up an independent Consultancy in 2000 but has now decided to devote his life to writing. He completed a philosophical/ecological thriller in 1999 and a book on Earned Value metrics in March 2001. A book on Advaita - 'The Book of One' was published in 2003 and an introductory book on Sanskrit will be published in 2004. A book on meaning, purpose and happiness has just been completed.