Educated up to the third grade, he started out as an employee of a timber godown, but later co-founded Nepali Citizens Rights Forum with Sukraraj Shastri.

Sentenced to 18 years for treason by the Rana regime in 1997 BS (1942 CE), he was tutored in poetry by Siddhicharan Shrestha in prison.

His early poems are melancholic, pessimistic or revolutionary, in keeping with his incarceration during a time of revolution against the tyranny of the Ranas.

[2] He was accused in the Jharokhar Shooting Incident of Rautahat; he was arrested by Indian Police upon request from the Rana regime.

He founded the Leftist Congress under his own chairmanship following an ideological dispute with BP Koirala, but it failed to gain any ground and quickly disappeared into obscurity.

Mahendra appointed him Chancellor of Royal Nepal Academy c. 1969 CE, as a successor to himself, making him the first commoner to hold the position.

[2] Vyathit became the Minister of Transport and Communications in 1962, after Mahendra deposed the democratic government and initiated the partyless Panchayat System.

[5] He was the Home Minister in 2036 BS (1979-80 CE) during the democracy protests and the subsequent referendum on the political system governing the country.

He was confined to bed in his final years, after he fell down in the bathroom of Royal Nepal Academy and broke his leg.

[3] He was awarded the Jagadamba Shree Puraskar in 2049 BS (1992-93 CE) in recognition of his 50 years of service to Nepali literature through his writings as well as institutional roles and organisational activities.

[1] He also wrote the poem Meri Priyasi: Prajatantrik Swatantrata[My love: Democratic Freedom] in 2034 BS (1977-78 CE).