INTRODUCTION

A. Life and Works

Professor K. Satchidananda Murty was bom on 25th September

1924 to Sri K. Veerabhadraiah, a religious minded landlord and his

devoted wife Ratnamma in Sangam Jagarlamudi near Tenali in Guntur

district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The railway line, which connects

Kalkota and Chennai on the East Coast o f India, passes through the

Tenali town, which is the nearest railway station to Sangam Jagarlamudi.

Etemologically, Satchidananda Murty means 'the form of truth,

reality and bliss.' It is the other name for Omniscient, Omnipotent and

Omnipresent God, Brahman described in the Upanishads. In the

childhood of Satchidananda Murty, it is learned that his father and

grandparents used to call him affectionately 'Devudiah ' or 4Devudu'

(God) and his friends 'Anandam ' (joy). 1

Satchidananda Murty has been given primary education at his

residence. Sri Sangameswara Rao, a childhood friend o f Satchidananda.