Om namah shivaya bhajan
In order to help his student support his large family, Srinivasa Iyer put him in the music department of the cinema field, in which Sri Ramanathan worked for nearly 25 years, in Bombay and Madras. But, the Guru's power and grace was such that soon he not only mastered the subtle art but also could connect music with Vedantic thoughts. He taught him Veena for 12 days after which he asked him to practice on his own. Srinivasa Iyer, who was himself a Naishthika Bramhachari (lifelong celibate) and a saintly soul. After a brief business career, he went to Chidambaram, in Tamilnadu where he came in contact with his music guru Sri P. At the age of eight, his mother took both her sons on a long pilgrimage for three years, all over India, during which period the young boy had the opportunity of receiving the blessings of many Siddha-purushas and holy saints. The influence of the mother over the boy was very profound in creating spiritual Samskaras (impressions) in him. In him one actually saw a rare combination of highest Jnana and deepest bhakti.īorn in pious and religious family in Kerala in the year 1914, he was known as Ramanathan, the second son of a big family consisting of 2 sons and five daughters. His spiritual personality was indeed a living ideal of all the lofty qualities of the Sadhana Marga like keenest Viveka and Vairagya (discrimination and dispassion), intense thirst for God and God alone and great wisdom. He was an embodiment of renunciation and deepest devotion in the Lord. There is no doubt whatsoever that he has merged and become one with the Supreme Universal Being. It fulfilled all the scriptural description of an illumined soul going into liberation.
His Holiness Revered Swami Vidyanandaji Maharaj attained Mahasamadhi at 9.05 a.m.