On the dawn of 8th September, was born a spiritual baby-boy named Kuppuswamy in the small village of Pattamadai on the banks of River Tamraparni in South India. The proud parents of this baby boy were Shri P.S. Vengu Iyer who was a Tahsildar and a great Shiva devotee and mother was Shrimati Parvati Ammal who was equally a great devotee and God fearing lady. He passed out the First Arts examination and went for further studies of medicine in Tanjore. He possessed more knowledge than the doctors without having the degree, he had wide knowledge itself in the first year, and he could answer the papers which the final year students could not. Kuppuswamy completed the course and earned the degrees titled M.B, C.M. He practiced at Tiruchi, while practicing he started a medical journal known as the "Ambrosia." He was extremely talented and enthusiastic child from his teenage.

Kuppuswamy reached Rishikesh on the 8th of May, 1924. On the fortunate day of 1st June, arrived Sri Visvananda Saraswati in front of Kuppuswamy. The monk saw a chela in the doctor and the doctor saw a guru in the monk. After a brief personal talk between the monk and the doctor, he was designated to be in the Sanyasi order in the Ashram. Then subsequently, Kuppuswamy was named Swami Sivananda by Guru Visvananda Saraswati and consequently he started staying in the Swarga Ashram for performing meditations and Tapas and Japas.

Swami Sivananda renounced the worldly pleasures and he ate to live, dressed for the sake of clothing, and lived to serve humanity. He resided in a small dilapidated Kutir glutted by scorpions; this Kutir sheltered him from rain and harsh sun. In that Kutir he would perform intense Tapas and meditation, and sometimes he would fast together for several days. He kept with him a good stock of dry breads and for a week have this bread with Ganga water. He would perform intense meditation in the early winter mornings standing tall in the River Ganga until hips and would stand in this chilled water till twelve hours a day and came out only when the sun appeared.

With this intense meditation, he did not neglect his responsibilities of being a doctor and serving the sick and old; he would visit the huts of the saints carrying with him medicines. He served the cases of cholera and smallpox. Sometimes he washed their Kutirs when they did not feel well, begged on behalf of them and feed them with his own hands. Often when necessary, he kept an eye throughout the night on the ailing persons

With his insurance policy that had matured, he received some money from which he commenced a charitable dispensary at Laxman Jhula in 1927 where he treated the sick and ailing pilgrims and saw Narayana in them. Swamiji studied the scriptures and performed varied forms of yogas. After years of disciplinary life and renouncing the worldly pleasures, he attained and enjoyed the paradise of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. He had come to the end of his spiritual journey.

Swamiji traveled all the parts of India during his Parivrajaka life. He visited prominent places of pilgrimage in the south, including Rameswaram. He conducted Sankirtan and gave lectures. Swamiji went for a trip over the Kailash Mansarovar and Badrinath. On 14th of July 1963, this sacred soul entered Mahasamadhi in his Kutir on the banks of Ganga in Sivanandanagar.

Swami Sivananda`s preaching`s
Swamiji collected bits of papers, margins of newspapers, envelopes and stitched them together into small notebooks. Swamiji wrote some instructions in them as to how to behave in a good way in life, some of his readable instructions that were found are "give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, and give up tamarind." In another do`s we read serve bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, serve sadhus, carry them water, remove faecal matter, clean clothes of sadhus and be delighted in serving them. Another page has a mention that says do not take revenge; do not resist the evil, bear insult and injury.

On some neat and clean pages again we get to see, forget like a child, harm and insult done by somebody, don`t keep in mind because this will subsequently give rise to bad and evil feelings. Develop feelings of Maitri (friendship), Karuna (kind-heartedness), Daya (mercy), Prema (love), Kshama (Forgiveness). Another paragraph says that develop good manners, extreme politeness, courtesy, etiquette, good demeanor, nobility, gentleness, mildness. Never be harsh, rude or cruel. There is nothing in the world that deserves hatred feelings. Hatred is ignorance. All envy and dislikes for anything or being must be removed through love and Vichara (thoughts). Swami Sivananda`s peaceful thoughts and instructions reflect that his heart and soul were both pure and he was a persona of down-to-earth and non-violent nature.