Nitya Chaidhanya Yati

Nitya Chaidhanya Yati

Nitya Chaitanya Yati (Jayachandra Panikkar) (November 2, 1923–May 14, 1999) Nitya Chaidhanya Yati was a thinker, philosopher, Advaitic scholar, and spiritualist. Belongs to Narayana Guru's school of thought. Student of Nataraja Guru. Nitya Chaitanya Yati applied the new Advaitic approach developed by Narayana Guru and Nataraja Guru to modern psychology and literature. The second head of the Narayana Gurukulam, which was founded by Nataraja Guru.

Birth And Education

Birth

Nitya Chaitanya Yati's birth name was Jayachandra Panikkar. On November 2, 1923, Nitya Chaidanya Yati was born to Pandalam Raghav Panikkar and Vamakshi Amma in an Ezhava feudal family of Pandalam Panikkars in a village called Murinjakal near Konni in the PathanamThitta district of Kerala.

Ancestors

Nitya Chaitanya Yati's father, Pandalam Raghav Panikkar, served as a teacher. Pandalam Raghava Panikar was famous as a poet and essayist. The maternal grandfather of Nitya Chaidhanya Yati was a Pali linguist. The famous poet Mulur Padmanabha Panikkar was the maternal uncle of Nitya Chaitanya Yati.

Education

Nitya Chaitanya Yati did his primary education at the school of a teacher named Nanu Pillai. After completing his matriculation at Kulatungal High School near Pandalam, he left home in 1939 and wandered for 8 years in British India, North India, today's Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

He returned to the field again in 1947. He joined Union Christian College in Aluva for a Bachelor of Philosophy. He then completed his Masters in Philosophy from Thiruvananthapuram University College in 1952. Psychology was an optional subject.

In 1956, he received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Bombay.

Educational works

Nitya Chaitanya Yati worked as a philosophy teacher at Srinarayana College, Kollam,Kollam in 1952. In 1953, he worked as a professor of philosophy at Vivekananda College, Chennai, for one year.

He was the founding president of the Centre for the Study of Alternative Psychology in 1959, on the orders of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Nithya Chaitanya Yati has worked as a professor in the fields of philosophy and alternative psychology at several universities, including Portland and Chicago. He has served as a visiting professor in England and France.

Spiritual Life

When Nitya Chaitanya Yati was a child, his father took him to see Gandhi. Nitya Chaitanya Yati sang a prayer before Gandhi. Nitya Chaitanya Yati had also seen Narayanaguru as a child.

Nitya Chaitanya Yati spent some time at Ramana's ashram at Tiruvannamalai and at Gandhi's ashram at Sabarmati during his post-school wanderings. He met various spiritual teachers during that period.

When he was working as a teacher at Sreenarayana College, Kollam, he met Natarajaguru, who came to lecture there. While serving as Professor of Philosophy at Ramakrishna Math's Vivekananda College, he resigned in 1953 after a philosophical clash with Dr. Radhakrishnan.