HIS HOLINESS SRI SWAMI PARAMANANDA SARASWATI MAHARAJ - DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, M arch 19, 2021. 07:29. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HIS HOLINESS SRI SWAMI PARAMANANDA SARASWATI MAHARAJ Born on the 15th of February, 1907, in the town of Nagore in South India, as the youngest son of the prosperous Brahmin couple Sri N. Sambamurthy and Smt. Sundarambal, he was known as S. Jayaraman in his Purvashram. After his early education in Nagore itself, he served for a short time as a teacher in the local Catholic Mission School. He then went to Madras in 1927 and got employed in the Railways. The young boy, who had an adventurous spirit and an innate urge for renunciation, happened to read Swami Sivananda's first writing 'Practice of Yoga' at the Connemera Library, Madras, in 1929. He started postal correspondence with Swami Sivananda and expressed his wish to renounce the world and join him at Rishikesh. He was