Sri Devisetty Chalapathi Rao was born on 12th Sep. 1946 in Turlapadu village in Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh, India. They adopted Chilakaluripeta as their place of residence.
Even at the age of 12, Rao developed keen taste for religious classics like Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavatam and studied them with great interest. He has a special liking for Mahabharata and made an intensive and indepth study of the text for about 20 years. And this enabled him to give serial lectures on it in Chilakaluripeta for 5 years. From 1990 he has been organizing ‘Satsangas’ and giving discourses on religious texts like ‘Bhaja Govindam’, ‘Tattva Bodha’, ‘Atma Bodha’, ‘Esavasyopanishad’, etc.
In 1994 he established ‘Adhyatmika Jnana Peetham’ and has been conducting ‘Satsangas’ under its banner. He delivered lectures on ‘Bhagavad Gita’ for 3 years 3 months and on Sankaracharyas ‘Viveka Chudamani’ for 4 years, and created a healthy environment of spiritualism around him.
From 1996 Sri chalapathirao has been giving discourses in several places on Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Vedanta prakarana texts, Narada Bhakti Sutralu, Ramana Maharshi Upadesasaram, Ramayanam, Mahabharatam, Bhagavatam etc under the schema of ‘Jnana Yajnas’. With a view to bring even the intricate matters of philosophical content within easy perception of ordinary readers, he wrote several books entitled “Karma Siddhanta”, “Esavasyopanishad”, “Bhaja Govindam”, “Kenopanishad”, “Bhagavad Gita”, “Maha Bharatam” in Telugu and got them published.
From 2010 Nov onwards, the speeches which he gives on various valuable subjects in simple telugu language through ‘Satsangam’ which happens on daily basis at chilakaluripeta are getting recorded and we all can listen his speeches through the website http://www.srichalapathirao.com, going forward all the subjects will be added here with gods grace.
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