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SRI SWAMI SIVANANDABorn on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious familyof Sage Appayya Dikshitar and several other renowned saintsand savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a lifedevoted to the study and practice of Vedanta. Added to thiswas an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling ofunity with all mankindHis passion for service drew him to the medicat career;and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his servicewas most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier beenediting a health journal and wrote extensively on health problems.He discovered that people needed right knowledge mostof all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his ownmission.It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God uponmankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his careerand took to a life of renunciation to qualify for ministering to thesoul of man. He seftled down at Rishikeshin 1924, practised intenseausterities and shone as a great Yogi, saint, sage andJivanmukta.ln 1932 Swami Sivananda started the Sivanandashram.ln 1936 was born The Divine. Life Society. ln 1948 theYoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organised. Disseminationof spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga andVedanta were their aim and object. ln 1950 Swamiji undertooka lightning tour of lndia and Ceylon. In 1953 Swamijiconveneda 'World Parliament of Religions'. Swamiji is the author of over300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging toall nationalities, religions and creeds. To read Swamiji's worksis to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July,1 963 Swamiji entered Mahasamadhi.