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{{Infobox person
| name = Nataraja Guru
| image = NatarajaGuru.jpg
| birth_name = P. Natarajan
| native_name = നടരാജ ഗുരു
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|02|18}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|03|19|1895|02|18}}
| birth_place = Bangalore, India
| occupation = Founder of [[Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP)|SNDP]], social reformer
}}
'''Nataraja Guru''' (born P. Natarajan, 18 February 1895 – 19 March 1973) was a disciple of [[Narayana Guru]] and himself an Indian social reformer.

== Life ==
P. Natarajan was born in [[Bangalore]] in [[British India]] on 18 February 1895. His mother was Bhagavathi and his father, [[Palpu]], was a doctor who founded the [[Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana]] (Society for the Propagation of the Religion of Sree Narayana, or SNDP) in 1903, of which Narayana Guru was the first president. Natarajan was the third of five children, having both an older and younger brother and an older and younger sister. He received a high-class education in Bangalore, [[Trivandrum]] and [[Kandy]] before being awarded a Master's degree by [[Madras Presidency College]].{{sfnp|Thadathil|2002|ps=}}{{sfnp|Lukose|2010|pp=209-210|ps=}}

Natarajan had come into contact with Narayana Guru and experienced the [[gurukul]] way of life in [[Alwaye]] and [[Ooty]] before becoming headmaster at [[Varkala High School]], which had been founded by Naryana.{{sfnp|Thadathil|2002|ps=}} It was after a "conference of all religions" at Alwaye that Natarajan founded his Narayana Gurukulam Movement (NGM) and University for the Science of the Absolute in 1924.{{sfnp|Osella|Osella|2000|p=107|ps=}} [[K. K. N. Kurup]], a historian of [[Kerala]], describes the NGM as "an international order of brotherhood".{{sfnp|Kurup|1988|p=99|ps=}}

In the year that Naryana died, 1928, Natarajan received his blessing to study abroad. These studies lasted five years, during which he obtained a doctorate of letters from the [[Sorbonne]] in [[Paris]] while also teaching at the [[Quaker International School]] in [[Geneva]].{{sfnp|Thadathil|2002|ps=}}

On returning to India, Natarajan spent two years seeking work in various parts of the country because the followers of Narayana were not welcoming to him after the guru's death. In 1935, he returned to the gurukul at Fernhill in Ooty. He spent some time as an Advisor for the [[princely state]] of [[Cochin]] and established an educational institute in [[Mysore State]] before leaving India for Europe once again in 1949. Upon his return in 1951, having also visited America, he was recognised as a guru.{{sfnp|Thadathil|2002|ps=}}

Thereafter, Nataraja travelled widely around the world and, in 1963, established the Brahmavidya Mandiram at [[Sivagiri, Kerala|Sivagiri]] in [[Varkala]].{{sfnp|Osella|Osella|2000|p=107|ps=}} He translated into English and wrote commentaries on all the major works of Narayana Guru. He also wrote on a wide variety of subjects, employing throughout a protolinguistic or structural approach.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

Nataraja Guru died on 19 March 1973 at the NGM headquarters in Varkala.{{sfnp|Thadathil|2002|ps=}}

== Books ==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205135523/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/3-the-word-of-the-guru The Word of the Guru: Life and Teachings of Narayana Guru]'' (content archived 5 February 2012) first serialized in ''The Sufi Quarterly'', 1928, published as a book at Geneva, 1931.

* ''Unitive Philosophy'', D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi, 2005, {{ISBN|81-246-0339-1}}, comprising:
**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120304133820/http://advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/13-vedanta-revalued-and-restated Vedanta Revalued and Restated]'' (content archived 4 March 2012), first serialized in ''Values'' magazine Nov. 1963 - Nov. 1964.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509154744/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/228/0/ The Philosophy of a Guru]'', (content archived 9 May 2008) serialized in ''Values'' magazine Jan. 1965 - Nov. 1965
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071017093603/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/234/0/ The Search for a Norm in Western Thought]'', (content archived 17 October 2007) serialized in ''Values'' magazine Jan. 1966 - Nov. 1966

* ''Autobiography of an Absolutist''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205135613/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/75-bhagavad-gita-index The Bhagavad Gita, Translation and Commentary]'', (content archived 5 February 2012)
* ''[http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/23/0/ An Integrated Science of the Absolute (Volumes I, II)]''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724154245/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/230/0/ Wisdom: The Absolute is Adorable]''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204093623/http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/85/30/ Saundarya Lahari of Sankara]'' (content archived 4 February 2012)
* ''[http://www.worldgovernment.org/memor.html Memorandum on World Government]''
* ''World Education Manifesto''
* ''Experiencing One World''
* ''[http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk/content/view/223/1/ Dialectical Methodology]''
* ''Anthology of the Poems of Narayana Guru''

== References ==
'''Citations'''
{{reflist}}
'''Bibliography'''
{{refbegin}}
*{{citation |title=Modern Kerala: Studies in Social and Agrarian Relations |first=K. K. N. |last=Kurup |authorlink=K. K. N. Kurup |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1988 |isbn=9788170990949 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJvx0KWpf-UC}}
*{{citation |first=Ritty A. |last=Lukose |chapter=Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India |title=Everyday Life in South Asia |editor1-first=Diane P. |editor1-last=Mines |editor2-first=Sarah |editor2-last=Lamb |edition=2nd |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2010 |isbn=9780253354730 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=828fOvb61wIC&pg=PA209}}
*{{citation |title=Social Mobility In Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict |editor1-first=Filippo |editor1-last=Osella |editor2-first=Caroline |editor2-last=Osella |publisher=Pluto Press |year=2000 |isbn=9780745316932 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMRw0gTZSJwC}}
*{{citation |title=The Making of a Tradition: The Vision of Nataraja Guru |first=George |last=Thadathil |journal=Divyadaan |volume=13 |issue=2 |year=2002 |pages=159–190 |url=http://divyadaan.in/journal/Volume%2013%20No%202%20%282002%29.pdf |access-date=23 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323230324/http://divyadaan.in/journal/Volume%2013%20No%202%20%282002%29.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |title=Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia |editor-first=Bardwell L. |editor-last=Smith |publisher=BRILL |year=1976 |isbn=9789004045101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNAI9F8IBOgC}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.narayanagurukula.org Narayanagurukulam]
*[http://www.advaitavedanta.co.uk Works of Natataraja Guru]

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