Maharishi’s teaching Vethathiri’s science of living (Vethathiriyam) Several years of intense meditation and introspection brought him full enlightenment at the age of thirty five.
Life HistoryĪfter spending several years in various minor employments, he established a textile concern that grew to employ over 2000 workers on a profit sharing basis that would be thought progressive even today.Īlthough constantly busy with family and business matters, he always found time to pursue his deep desire to achieve self-realization and realization of Truth. The search to find these answers as well as to further his lot in life led him into various fields of endeavor, including becoming a qualified practitioner of two systems of Indian indigenous medicine, Ayurveda and Siddha, and certified practitioner Homeopathy as well. What is God? What is life? Why is poverty in the world? From his youth he was driven by the desire for knowledge and in particular strove to find answers to three questions: Shri Vethathiri Maharishi was born in 1911 in the village of Guduvancheri, 30 km south of Chennai, India, into an indigent weaver’s family.
