Guru Parampara

Param Sadguru Sri Swami Ramananda Paramahamsa

His holiness Sri Swami Ramananda Paramahamsa was born in Cannor district in Kerala State in the year 1903. He attained Mahasamadhi in 1993. Travelling from place to place finally settled down at Dowleswaram in East Godavari District, A.P. where for several years he did penance in a cave in the Janardhana Swami Temple in Dhawalagiri hills surrounded with snakes and so, he was called as Pamulaswamy.

After decades of vigorous Yoga Sadhana Sri Swami Ramananda Paramahamsa wanted to establish the Yoga propounded by his Guruji Sri Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa was the real Yoga as preached by Sri Krishna Paramatma in the holy Bhagavad-Gita, and it was also laid in the great scriptures and shrutis of all ancient maharshis.

He critically, carefully and minutely studied all Upanishads and with a view to justify, convince and prove that the Yoga path of his Guruji is the very method taught by Lord Krishna in Bhagavad-Gita and this is the real Yoga cult for self-realization. He founded an ashram by name Sri Ramananda Yoga Jnana Ashram in at Kamannavalasa in the year 1965 (via) Ramabhadrapuram, Badangi Mandal, Vizianagaram District, Andhra Pradesh. He founded another ashram at Bhavanipuram, Vijayawada.
His beloved known disciple was Sri Antarmukhananda, who served his Guru for more than 14 years in the ashram and attained spiritual powers from his Guru and with his divine blessings now conducting the ashram as Pitadhipathi. He has given initiation to thousands of people throughout the country.

Swamiji as a Paramahamsa with all his spiritual powers and divine grace, cured chronic diseases like cancer, arthritis, psychic problems and eradicated leprosy, blood pressure, tuberculosis, diabetes etc., His disciples have experienced miracles and also observed his control over the nature many a times he has showered love and affection on poor people and fed them with food and cloths. Swamiji strongly stressed the need for regular Yoga Sadhana to all mankind and named the Sadhana as Sada pranayama. He wrote number of books. The last of the series is Yogamrutam.

 

Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri

Even in childhood, Bhagwan Nityananda seemed to be in an unusually advanced spiritual state, which gave rise to the belief that he was born enlightened. He was eventually given the name Nityananda, which means, "always in bliss".

Before the age of twenty, Nityananda became a wandering yogi, spending time on yogic studies and practices in the Himalayas and other places. By 1920, he was back in southern India.

Settled in southern India, Nityananda gained a reputation for creating miracles and cures. He started building an ashram near Kanhangad, Kerala state. The hill temple and Ashram in Kanhangad are now pilgrim centres. The Guruvan, a forest in the hills nearby where Bhagawan sat on penance, is now a pilgrim retreat.

By 1923, Nityananda had wandered to the Tansa Valley in Maharashtra state. There, his reputation as a miracle worker attracted people from as far away as Mumbai, though he never took credit for any miracles. He said, "Everything that happens, happens automatically by the will of God."Nityananda gave a great deal of help to the local adivasis. Nityananda set up a school, as well as providing food and clothing for them.

Sri Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa

His holiness Sri Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa was a great Yogi. He had his initiation from two Yogis in Palani, who after giving him Upadesam of Yoga they disappeared. Ever since he sat up in the Palani forest practicing the Yoga. He entered Samadhi state. Like Valmiki his body was covered with anthill, shrubs and small trees grew upon him. Accidentally a forest guard by name Kalam happened to notice the holy man and slowly brought him to consciousness.

Since then he went about preaching the Yoga method into which he was initiated and which he practiced and realized by his tapas. He founded an Ashram called Siddha Samaj at Vadakara in Kozhikode district, Kerala State, Impacting the Brahma Vidya that he realized. He travelled far and wide initiating lakhs of people into Yoga cult. He attained Samadhi in the year 1949 in Palani and latter brought him to Vadakara, Kerala State.

One of his well-known disciples was Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri near Vajreswari about 50 miles from Bombay where he attained Samadhi. Sri Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa wrote a book Siddha Vedam in Malayalam language. Later this book was translated to English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada languages.