About the Author (Narayana Guru and Nataraja Guru)

Narayana Guru, 1854-1928, born in Chempazhanti (Kerala), was a mystic, philosopher, visionary, poet and social reformer, who envisioned mankind's solidarity on the commonalty of human sentiments and, yet more importantly, on the irrefutable unity of the Self. Writing his works in Sanskrit, Malayalam and Tamil, he gave literature a new tilt and meaning to trumpet the message of social, political and economic change. The Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore found in this guru, at Sivagiri, the most ancient of rishis (seers) reliving the wisdom of Advaita.

Nataraja Guru (1895-1973), a direct disciple of Narayana Guru, studied under Henri Bergson at the Sorbonne - where he took his doctorate in Educational Psychology. His scheme of correlation between science and mysticism amounts to an epochal advance in philosophy. This scientist- philosopher also authored a number of books which, besides An Integrated Science of the Absolute, include Experiencing One- World, and In Search of a Common Language for Sciences.