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 My True Literary Masters ''' '''

In this creation, every human being wants is to live peacefully and joyfully. Moreover, in terms of relationships, human beings want to be loving and affectionate. In other words, all that human beings are seeking is pleasantness within themselves, or pleasantness around them. Nevertheless, everything created on the Earth essentially first created in the mind.

A Sadguru helps his disciple to organize the mind that in turn organizes the whole system, body, emotions and energies. Such mind makes anything that wish is to happen like a Kalpavriksha. Once empowered with a potential like this, it is very important that the physical action, emotional action, mental action and energy action are controlled and properly directed. So the mind gets organized, the emotions will get organized -- the way one think is the way feels. Once the thought and emotions are organized, the energies organized in the same direction. Once thought, emotion and energies are organized, the very body organized. Once these four well organized in one direction, the ability to create and manifest what one want is phenomenal. If they are not, one becomes destructive, and self-destructive.

This is what I have learnt from my great Literary Masters.

Let me take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to my First Literary Master Padma Bhushan Kavi Samraat Shri Viswanadha Satyanarayana was a Telugu writer of the 20th century. At that time, there was no contemporary in Telugu literature who could match his depth of the subjects he covered and his mastery of literature. His works included poetry, novels, drama, short stories, and speeches, covering a wide range of subjects such as analysis of history, philosophy, religion, sociology, political science, linguistics, psychology and consciousness studies, epistemology, aesthetics and spiritualism. works includes 30 poems, 20 plays, 60 novels, 10 critical estimates, 200 Khand kavyas, 35 short stories, three play lets, 70 essays, 50 radio plays, 10 essays in English, 10 works is Sanskrit, three translations, 100 introductions and forewords as well as radio talks. Some of his poems and novels translated into English,  Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu, and Sanskrit. He awarded with the Jnanpith Award for his ‘Ramayana Kalpavruksham'. Veyipadagalu is the critically acclaimed novel as one of the best in Telugu literature. He awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1971.

I was his student learnt lucidly the art of writing with Yati, Prasa (rhyme) and Chandas (meter), Prose and Poetry. I was granted an opportunity of assisting while he was finishing his work Veyipadagalu (The Thousand Hoods). He sharpened my learning Veda Rahasya. This led me to continue my research in Agama Shastra , Krimi  <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Shastra <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, Hora <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Shastra <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, Hasta <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Shastra <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, Vastu <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Shastra <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, and <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Vimana <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Shastra. One can read all these in the Kingdom of Shiva. A true mentor and I pay my most humble respects to this Master.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">My mentor Kavi Samraat Shri Viswanadha Satyanarayana introduced me to Smt. Tenneti Hemalatha in 1957, a most popular Telugu writer and was a well known as Lata. She started her career as an announcer of the AIR at Vijayawada in 1955. She was a singer and participated in radio plays and later acted in, and wrote dialogue for, movies. She had written 105 novels, 700 radio plays, 100 short stories, ten stage dramas, five volumes of literary essays, two volumes of literary criticism, and one volume of Lata Vyasaalu, as well as 25 charitra kandani Prema kathalu poems. Her novels Gaali Padagalu, Neeti Budagalu Mohanavamsi, and Antharanga Chitram became a source inspiration to me. She was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy for twenty years.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Andhra University honoured her with a Kalaprapoorna doctorate. She awarded as Gruhalakshmi Swarnakankanam in 1963. She bestowed with the "Extraordinary woman award" by the government of Andhra Pradesh in 1981.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">She was responsible for my induction to Radio Plays. When she started writing a series of feature articles in Andhra Prabha weekly, under the running title, Uhaagaanam [musings] from 1958 to 1963, I chanced upon closely associating with her. Its success was unbelievable. Lata became a household name and the readership for the weekly magazine escalated greatly. It used to be down-to-earth and yet poetic. The Uhaagaanam articles featured her humour on one level. At another level, she also was capable of initiating challenging dialogues among the elite on topics such as god, traditional values, and religion. Her knack for imagery is amazing. Whether it is her sparkling enthusiasm for life or antipathy for the injustices in the society, it is always entrenched in a combination of sarcasm, sharp with an uncanny humour.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">She covered a wide range of topics in her novels—harmony at individual or social level, underlying principles of caste, marriage, traditions in other parts of India, beliefs such as ghosts and predictions based on horoscopes, and so on. This exposure moulded me and perfected me as a writer.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> With most respectfully, I am offering my great tributes to Lata, who was a prolific and influential writer who wrote about various situations and gifted me art of writing in Telugu.

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