BRAHMANANDA SIVA YOGI (1852-1929)

  • Brahmananda Sivayogi was born on August 26, 1852 at Kollangod in Palakkad.

  • He was the 9th son of Smt. Nani Amma of Karat Nair Family and Sri Kunjikrishnamenon of Vellangi Ravanyaram at Nemmara in Palakkad.

  • Real name of Sivayogi was Karat Govindamenon.

  • In his Childhood he was called Govindankutty.

  • He was known as the ‘Guru of Atheists’.

  • Govindankutty spent his childhood in his mother’s house at Kallankode.

  • Govindankutty married Thavukkutty Amma at Vadavanoor later she became his disciple and got the titile “Yogini Matha”

  • Givindan kutty was appointed as a village officer.

  • He resigned from the post and joined as a Sanskrit teacher in the native school at Kozhikode. He participated in the Brahma Samaj, Kozhikode under Sri Ayyathan Gopalan.

  • He founded the Siddhasramamam at Vanoor in Palakad in 1891 and later it was Shifted to Alathoor in Palakkad in the year 1907.

  • He advised to accept the essence from any religion and to refuse the waste.

  • Sivayogi championed the cause of social reforms among the Hindus by advocating change in Marumakkathayam.

  • 1918 he formed Ananda Maha Sabha.

  • He Propounded the theory that Ananda (happiness) should be the touchstone of any human activity

  • He propounded the theory of Ananda.