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  Birth: December 23, 1900
  Uliyazhthura Village,  Thiruvananthapuram		  
 Spiritual Swayambhoo: a selfmade saint

 Realization of Lord Siva and Lord Subrahmanya before the age of 20

 In 1920 moved in to the 14 cents of land (ashram premises) and never stepped out.

 45 year long intense, incessant and penetrating penance.

 PracticedATMARAMA WORSHIP where the worshipper and the worshipped attained absolute  communion.

 ATMARAMA ABHISHEKAM where the abhishekam is performed on oneself in the anahatachakra,  unparalled except in the case of Lord Anjaneya.

 Embodiment of Divine light and veritable treasure of Vedic wisdom.

 Possessed Ashtaiswarya Sidhis : knowing everything beforehand, disappearing from the view of others,  assuming the form of any living being and being present at distant places, etc.

 Despite the powers led a simple and humble life clad in a short piece of dhothi.

 Very personification of compassion and universal love, but was ever uncompromising with untruth and  egoism in any one.

 Could have attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi at the age of 32, but waited for 32 more years for the spiritual  successor to arrive.

 Swetcha Mrityu (one who could choose when to leave the mortal body behind) like Bhishma. Postponed  the Samadhi twice.

 Instituted the uninterupted recital of Ramayana from morning to evening everyday ever since 1920
 Established Sree Rama Dasa Madom and consecrated a Rama-Sita-Anjaneya temple and introduced  regular worship
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 Anointed his beloved disciple as Madathipathi in 1965.

 Attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi on the self chosen day and time : Utharayana Shuklapaksha,Ekadasi  (May 26th 1965)
 
   
  From the land of Himalayas and the sacred rivers:
  Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswathi From the land of the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Great Bhagavad Gita

  From the land of the Great Rishis and Saints:
  Saptharshis, Vasishtha, Agasthya, Valmiki, Veda Vyasa, Shankara, Ramanuja,  Jnaneswara, Chaitanya,   Raghavendra, Sri   Ramakrishna, Sri Ramana...,

  From Mother India...
  We bring to light one of the finest expressions of her spiritual soul in its pristine glory .......
BRAHMASREE NEELAKANTA GURUPADAR
  
  His message: "Vasudhaiva Kudumbakam : The entire world is one family where all beings are members.There is only one  religion that is the primal cause behind this universe. It is truth, that itself is God. Stand united and be cheerful. Everything  else will follow." A universal vision of humanism. A vedic vision of society.
  
  At a time the spiritual glory of Bharat was taking the world by storm through  her great children: Sri Ramakrishna & Swami  Vivekananda,  Sri Aurobindo, Swami Shivananda and Paramahamsa Yogananda, this sacred soul was performing a 45-year long intense, incessant and  penetrating penance in a small village  15 km north of Thiruvananthapuram  in  the southern tip of India, quite unknown to the human world  outside. A "Spiritual Swayambhoo" i.e.,  a self-made  Saint  with  no  Guru or Teacher, Gurupadar was recreating one of the most pristine  aspects of India's spiritual heritage i.e., enlightenment and realisation through Upasana of Rama. The Ramopasana(worship of Rama) that  transformed a hunter-thief,  Ratnakara,  into Aadi Kavi Valmiki (the First Poet) and gave birth to the foremost and finest poetic expression:  Ramayana; the same Ramopasana that laid the divine foundation for the Karnatic Classical Music through Saint Thyagaraja was given its  subtlest and luminous expression by Gurupadar through his own life and institutions he brought to life.
   temple at Veli Mala, he moved into the 14 cents of land at Chenkottukonam around 1920 and established a hermitage. He continued his  silent and penetrating penance  for  the  next 45 years without moving out of the Ashram. Through the continuous recitation of  Ramayana  and Upasana (worship)  of  Rama,  His  Holiness  attained  the  state  of  'Atmarama'  or  oneness with the cosmic self quite akin to  Sree  Ramadasa, Hanuman.  Gurupadar  was the embodiment of divine light and wisdom. Though uneducated in the ordinary sense of the  term,  H.H.  used  to  correct  wrong  recitation  of   the  Vedas  and  the Upanishads. He had the divine power of knowing everything beforehand,  disappearing  from  the  eyes  of  others  while  being  present  amongst them, assuming the form of any living being and being present at  distant  places. Though  nothing  remained  beyond  his  reach  and  power, he led a simple and ordinary life clad in a short piece of dhoti.  Gurupadar  welcomed  everyone  without  distinction of community, class, creed or religion as he visualised the whole world as one family.  However,  he  was  uncompromising  with  untruth  and  egoism  in  anyone.  This  hermitage came to be known as Swamiyarmadom. He  instituted unique and luminous institutions to instill reverence and piety in the hearts of common people.
  
   1.  Aaradhana and Bhajans.
   2.  Uninterrupted Recital of Ramayana.
   3.  Sree Rama Pattabhishekam in the Atmarama State.
   4.  Sree Rama Navami celebrations, to commemmorate the birth of Lord Rama.

   He founded Sree Rama Dasa Madom on July 4, 1962, installed the idols of in the Ashram shrine and introduced regular worship. On May  26, 1965,  the  holy day  of  Utharayana  Shuklapaksha,  Ekadashi,  Gurupadar willfully gave up His body and attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi
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