Shuddhananda Bharati

Kavi Yogi Maharishi Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati (11 May 1897 – 7 March 1990) was an Indian philosopher and poet. His teachings are focused mainly on the search for God in Self, through the Sama Yoga practice he created.
Biography.
Bharati was born in Sivaganga in South India and attained Jeeva Samadhi in Sholapuram near Sivaganga. He founded Shuddhananda Bharati Desiya Vidyalayam High School in 1979.
He spent 25 years in silence whilst at Pondicherry, from 1925 to 1950, in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Mirra Alfassa. From the early 50's till 70's, he used to live in an area, beside IIT near Adyar, now called Yogi Gardens in memory of him.
Bharati always lived alone, without an Ashram, stating that: 
One of his disciple (late), S. Ram Bharati (17.07.1944 - 23.10.2003), also contributed to the construction of the main building of the school at Sholapuram in 1992, among many other disciples of Kavi Yogi in India and abroad. (Late) R. Jayaraman gave consent to his wife J.Renganayaki, (the daughter of J.Rengasamy Iyer, who was the Swami's real life elder brother, before Swamiji took Sainthood), to donate their land and its proceeds to register the few acres of land donated to J.Rengasamy Iyer, which he happily consented to give to Swamiji for building up his dream Yoga Samajam and the school, which stands tall today in Sholapuram, near Sivagangai (Tamil Nadu)
Honors.
In 1984 the Raja Rajan Award was given to Bharati by the Tamil University in Tanjore, effectively proffering the honor of Doctor of Literature.
The title Shuddhananda (pure bliss) was given to him by his friend Jnana Siddha.
The Sringeri Jagadguru gave him the name of Kavi Yogi Bharati
Sivananda conferred on him the title of Maharishi (great visionary).
Teachings.
Bharati's ideals are found in the teachings of Sama Yoga, a system that he founded. It is a synthesis of material science and spiritual yoga. Sama Yoga is also the "basis of a future spiritual socialism" according to Sivananda.
Works.
He wrote "over 250 published works, 173 are in Tamil, fifty in English, ten in French, four in Hindi and three in Telugu. Apart from these languages, he was also conversant with Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu." He is the first translator to have done both verse and prose renderings of the "Tirukkural" into English.
Through his writings, Bharati attempts to demonstrate the manner in which the divine was woven throughout his life.
His magnum opus "Bharata Shakti" is a monumental and unique work, a book for all ages say Sivananda in which Bharati describes his ideal: 
The full work includes epic texts, lyrical dramas, operas, comedies, pastoral novels, news, biographies, comments on illustrated works, essays, poems in French corrected directly by the Mother, Sacred Odes, walks, Rondels and triplets.
His autobiography, "The Pilgrim Soul" includes encounters with great figures of the past century, including Annie Besant, Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, Shirdi Sai Baba, V. V. S. Aiyar, Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Ramana Maharshi, C. V. Raman, Subramanya Bharathi, Sivananda, Romain Rolland, Jean Herbert and many others.