ABSTRACT
Raja Rao, the sacred wordsmith, has now departed. His small grey typewriter sits idle in the closet, leaning against boxes full of the manuscripts he created with its help. Raja always wrote in bed. Raja had such reverence for the word that he would never use abbreviations and abhorred American slang. Raja would initiate his writing sessions in two different ways, the most dramatic when he would be seized by a burning desire to write. This would come upon him at any time of day or night. While Raja worked day after day in an absolutely disciplined manner, his writing would take on a sporadic pattern during his lifetime. For ten desperate years Raja searched for his Guru, seeking out and listening to great spiritual teachers of India such as Pandit Taranath, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Krishnamurti, Mahatma Gandhi, and Ramana Maharshi.
