When he was but ten years old, Krishna Menon (later Atmananda) was visited by a sannyasin of some repute and given an initiation into a form of mantra yoga. Atmananda held firmly to the conviction that the only thing one had to renounce for liberation was the ego, and this itself was only possible through the light of knowledge, or spiritual insight, and not through motivated self-effort directed towards some goal outside of the self. He went so far as to encourage others to take up the same line of work, affirming that spiritual realization achieved under such conditions was enduring, final, and much stronger than realization gained in an ashram or monastery. Not a believer in world-denying asceticism, Atmananda had a wife and family as well as a demanding career in law enforcement. Atmananda urged Levy to promote his teachings in a more accessible form, and to that end Levy wrote The Nature of Man According to Vedanta and Immediate Knowledge and Happiness (Sadhyomukti), while teaching students out of his home in London. John Levy and Walter Keers were influential in bringing his work to the attention of the West, with Levy personally assisting Atmananda in the English translation of his works Atma Darshan and Atma Nivriti. Atmananda was a sage among sages who had attained proficiency in all yogas prior to assuming his principle role of teaching jnana. Brunton himself would send people to Atmananda desiring a traditional guru-disciple relationship, a function that he himself as principally a writer did not provide. 21:03 Biographies sur 7 by Peter Holleran Shree Atmananda (1883-1959) was a modern day sage who taught a Vedantic approach to self-realization, and was well- respected by Paul Brunton and others.
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