Download or read book Four Wishes written by S.Jagathsimhan Nair and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that what is already known cannot be unknown, however much one wants to. This is just remembering what was once known. It appears in the form of this translation into English of four of the more than ten works originally authored by that great sage and savant Vidyadhiraja Sri Chatambi Swamikal (1853-1924) who lived about a hundred years ago in Kerala at a time when Kerala's society was in the grip of a vicious caste system. His was, arguably, the first and foremost voice that was raised against social inequalities and discrimination at that time. Although he was acclaimed as a man of great spiritual accomplishments, he was as much concerned about the evils that existed in society as was determined to fight them. A man of vast learning and great scholarship, he went about exposing fearlessly how history was being distorted and scriptures misinterpreted. The four works this compilation carries deal with subjects as different in content as errors in the early history of Kerala, the misinterpretation of the Vedas, the evils of the caste system, the importance of women in society, and a great exhortation in favour of non-violence.