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Swamiji’s Agenda
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Above: Prof. P. N. Murthy standing by the plaque at the Engineering Staff College of India in Hyderabad which commemorates Shivabalayogi laying foundations on September 7, 1983.
Top Left: Prof. Murthy addressing devotees during Shivabalayogi’s last visit
to Hyderabad on
March 6, 1994.
Right: Prof. Murthy's English translation of Book VI of
the Yoga Vasishta. More about this translation at the
Yoga Vasishta
pages.
Swamiji’s Agenda
by Prof. P. N. Murthy
Prof. P.N. Murthy graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Annamalai
University in 1949 and later pursued aeronautical engineering in Indian Institute of Science
and University of Illinois, Urbana, USA. He obtained Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at
University of Illinois in 1962. He taught Aeronautical Engineering in IISC Bangalore and IIT
Kanpur. He was the head of the department of Aeronautical Engineering in IIT Kanpur during
its formative years, and is one of the founders and is a former Director of the Engineering Staff College of India in Hyderabad.
He participated in the progressive literature movement and authored several short stories, novels, philosophical essays and one act plays in Telugu.
Prof. Murthy
wrote a book on Shivabalayogi in Telugu, and compiled Divine Knowledge
Sayings of Saints in both English and Telugu.
Because of his knowledge of Telugu, English, and Sanskrit, Prof. Murthy was encouraged by Shivabalayogi to prepare an English translation of Sage Valmiki’s Yoga Vasishta from the Sanskrit-Telugu version that Swamiji had read, and Book VI of Murthy’s translation has been published.
Prof. Murthy originally wrote Swamiji’s Agenda in 1984, supplementing it with material until 1994. It has not been published, at least in this form.