About the author

C.V. Rajan

<p>C.V. Rajan is a retired Design Engineer, now an avid spiritual seeker, living with his wife in Ashram at Amritapuri, Kerala, spending his retired life in quest of spirituality under the holy feet of Amma, Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>He is an avid reader and a writer. Writing as a hobby started in him at the age of 20 and he became a regular short story writer in popular Tamil magazines during the seventies and eighties. He writes Tamil fictional stories with a pen-name Sandeepika.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu spiritual scriptures and also the lives and teachings of great Mahatmas like Kanchi Maha Swamigal, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda Saraswathi, Papa Ramadas and his Sadguru Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>In his early fifties, his Tamil articles started appearing in Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam magazine.&#160;<br/>&#13; He has been writing in various websites on a variety of subjects during the past 18 years.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Other than his mother tongue (Tamil) and English, he knows to speak, read and write Malayalam as well. Apart from original writing, C.V. Rajan also does considerable translation works across English - Tamil - Malayalam.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>He contributed in translation works at Ramakrishna Math (English-Tamil) and currently does it at Mata Amritanandamayi Math (Tamil-Malayalam-English). He is also currently engaged in translating some very popular Indian English Authors' books into Tamil in his spare time.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>C.V. Rajan maintains his own website hinduismwayoflife.com where&#160; he is&#160; sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.This site is aimed to be comprehensive source of basic info on Hinduism with all its facets to common seekers.&#160;</p>&#13; &#13; <p>C.V. Rajan also writes Answers regularly in Quora (English) as well as in Quora (Tamil) on readers&#8217;s queries related to Hinduism, Life and Living, life experiences,etc. More than thousands of his answers are there in both the languages in Quora.</p>&#13; &#13; <p/>