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Gnana Pitha Sivananda was born in 1879 in Vadakarai to Karunakara Kurupp and Mathavi Ammal and was named Raman Nambiar.

At the age of 9, he left home and reached the madam of Kanoor Swami. But he was brought home again. He ended his schooling and served as a teacher in Kalaripayat in Malabar. Again he left home.

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His relative Ananthan Nambiar got him a constable's job at his station. He was 17 then. When he returned home from his duty one day to find his wife had died at their home, the incident made him re-think hard about life and its impermanence.

This was the starting point of his spiritual conquest. A new leaf began for him.

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He was soon to become Gnana Pitha Sivananda Paramahamsa.

After performing the last rites for his wife, he headed for Tunjathu Ramanujar's Samadhi and sat in meditation. Then he furthered his meditation at the Panjavarna cave in Palani.

After Bhogar appeared in front of him and gave him initiation, he left on a pilgrimage to the Himalayas on 5th Janu