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A veteran union leader, Nair was instrumental in the formation of the National Trades Union Congress in 1961. There, he read the writings of Sri Aurobindo, particularly the Life Divine and became his life-long admirer and disciple. %���� Nair was one of the early statesmen of Malaysia and Singapore. Her father was a boat pilot and her mother was a cashew nut worker in a cashew factory at Kollam. They had been married for 21 years before his death. Second son Janamitra paid tribute to his father‘s love for his mother, who died of pneumonia in April: “Their relationship was a deep and enduring one.“. 3 0 obj They believe that salvation lies living in the closest possible proximity of the guru. Under the codifying Acts, namely, the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956; The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, the orthodox concept of the term “Hindu” has undergone a radical change and it has been given an extended meaning. The couple have been married for about 53 years. She is set to relocate to the Netherlands soon. Their sister, Madam Vijaya Kumari, 45, resides in Ontario, Canada. His only daughter, Vijaya Kumari Devan continues to reside in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1999, an article about the case in the Canadian newspaper. God is one. He also worshipped there like any other Hindu. She is the executive director of VIP F&B Operations at Marina Bay Sands, and is married to a Frenchman. The Brahmos (Members of the Brahmo Samaj) are reformers of Hinduism who profess to restore the Hindu faith to its original purity. Nair was also much loved by his grandchildren. A person who ceased to be Hindu by converting into a non-Hindu faith and who has come back to Hindu faith is also a Hindu. stream The 28-year-old is a corporate communications manager at a foreign bank in Singapore. It is not necessary that he reconverts to the same religion from which he converted to the non-Hindu religion. <>/XObject<>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 13 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 595.44 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S>> document.write (document.charset ? document.write ("'><\/scr"+"ipt>"); if (document.context) document.write ("&context=" + escape(document.context)); -Ong Teng Cheong (President from 1993-1999). [CDATA[// > 1 0 obj [5], She is married to O. if (!document.MAX_used) document.MAX_used = ','; He visited Pondicherry (now, Puducherry),and nearby Auroville a number of times and wrote and spoke on Sri Aurobindo's vision in USA, Canada and other countries. ) Son Janamitra, 54, is a vice-president with the World Bank Group. [7] Sandhya's husband, E. A. Rajendran is also a film actor. It holds that by tapasya, by discarding worldly life and its worldly manifestations, Atma can become Paramatma and thus one can attain salvation (moksha)”. “Unlike other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet, it does not worship any one God, it does not subscribe to any one dogma, it does not believe in any one philosophic concept, it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances, in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. His younger sister, Madam Zuriana, 58, also lives in Brunei, with her diplomat-husband. They had known each other for 75 years.