CONTENTS :
- * A Human Document
* The Basic Material
* A Biographical Sketch
* Light from the Labyrinth of Legends
* More Authentic Information
* The Date of Veerabrahmam
* Were Vemana&Brahmam Contemporaries ?
* The Crisis
* The Political Crisis
* The Social Crisis
* A Religious Rebel and A Social Reformer
* The Dogma
* Precept and Practice
* The caste system & privilege of Learning
* The Reform of Dharma Peetham
* Religious Tolerance
* Ahead of Times
* Veerabrahmam and Vemana
* The Kalajnanam (Kalagnanam)
* The Musings of Mahayoga
* The Message
* Bibliography
Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy Biography
SWAMI SRI VEERABRAHMENDRA
A Monograph on Pothuluru Veerabrahmendra Swamy
The Rajayoga is again devided into threes – namely 1. Sankhya 2. Tanika and 3. Amanaska yogas. The human body consists of twenty four elementary properties (Tattwas); The external nature (Prakriti) being added to them, the individual soul becomes a composition of twenty five elementary properties. When the individual soul unites with the Supreme Soul, the total number of elementary properties rises to twenty six. At this state of Jeeva and Iswara becoming one, the number of elementary properties goes upto twenty seven. The Jeeva will then be able to proclaim 'I am the Brahmam myself (Aham Brahmasmi). This very system of Yoga is based on numbers and hence called £Sankhya Yoga’.
In the Amanaska Yoga, the mind finally ceases to exist when it disappears itself by uniting with the Supreme Soul. This kind of non-existing state of the mind is called Turiya’ or ‘Unman!’ or ‘Amanaska’ or ‘Nirvikalpa Samadhi’.
Veerabrahamam, achieved this state of mind and evidently on many occassions he proclaimed “I am the Supreme Soul”. He lead an illustrations life and showed an example to people as to how they should train themselves in achieving the objective of extreme bliss.
“The Sajeeva Samadhi of Veerabrahma yogi was a part of his austere practices of ‘Nirvikalpa Samadhi’, a stepping stone to his Mahayoga.
The Mahayogi disclosed many of the Yogic secrets to his disciples like Siddayya, Kakkayya and a number of other devotees.
The under mentioned are also enlisted as followers of Brahmam.
Poodota Ramanna, Chittooru Narasimhadasu, Kaluva Kotaiah, Komalluri Veera Raghavuiu, Tadicherla Chatamaiah, Seshaiah, Narasaiah, Ahobaladasu, Sunnapugunta Raghavulu, Md. Hussein, Tarikonda Srahmaramba, Narahari, Jakkuleti Kambagiri, Ghantaiah and Chenchuraju are said to the close followers of Veerabrahmayogi. Md. Hussain is said to have propagated the yoga literature of Veerabrahamam in its true form and rendered great service.
In fact, for the benefit of the public, Veerabrahmam himself made the yoga sastra easy to understand. His language was so simple and yet figurative that a commoner also was attracted. His expression was so pleasant and musical that even a street singer was lured to recite instantaneously.