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Sivaraman,commonly known as Sadhu Sivaraman, is a religious figure at Thirukandeshwaram, Tamil Nadu, India. He is the founder of "Samarasa Suttha Sanmarga Sathya Yogasalai",a non-profit organisation which offers yoga, Meditation, food serve and herbal garden. He is the follower of Swami 'Sivananda Paramahamsar' and Ramalinga Swami, who popularly known as Vallalar.

Biography
Sadhu Sivaraman was the third son of thirteen Childrens. He was born on January 3, 1950 to T.M.Pandurangam and Jayalakshmi at Thirukandeshwaram village near Nellikuppam. His forefathers lived at kapoor and to enhance earning, came to Thirukandeshwaram. They started working at a Bhramin house. Here they became vegetarian. Many Sivayogis visited and stayed at pandurangam house, Sivaraman not born at this time. His mother habituated to serve sivayogis. Among many sivayogis visited her house, one named 'Sadaa swamy' stayed at their home for three or four days. He told her that her first child would be a girl and asked Jayalakshmi to name the child as Saraswathi. When the first baby was born, it was a girl and was named same as Saraswathi. After many years, an old man named kannupillai(a farrier for oxen), who frequently took lunch at her home, told jayalakshmi that she would be blessed with a boy baby. He asked her to name the child as Sivaraman, referring to a person he knew who served food to those in need nearby town Panruti. He also said that her son would serve food to people. She soon gave birth to a baby boy, and in spite of opposition by relatives, kept the same name Sivaraman.

childhood
Sadhu Sivaraman says that when he was around age 6, he was occasionally woken up during sleep due to the experiencing extreme fearfulness and loneliness. He studied S.S.L.C with lessening interest. During childhood, he occasionally went to Shiva temples, namelly 'Thiruvathigai', 'Eithanoor', 'Thiruvennainalloor' and 'Thirumachaikuli'. He meditated at those temples.

Spiritual involvement
While pursuing spiritual phenomena, Sivaraman sought to meet may persons. He met:


 * 1) Chandrasekar Swami at Kalavai, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu.
 * 2) Kurubagara Swamy at Andra.
 * 3) Kaatu/Saaku Swamy at Thiruvalam, Vellore.
 * 4) Poondi Swamy at Kalasapakkam, Thiruvannamalai.
 * 5) Yogi Ramsuratkumar(Popularly known as "Visiri swami") at Thiruvannamalai.
 * 6) Krishananda at Thiruvannamalai.

Sivaraman's friend 'Kaasi viswanatha Gurukal' went to Thiruvannamalai for his sadness. He went to Kaatu siva's ashram, and by chance he went to Krishananda's ashram also. He discussed with Krishnanda, after taking his advice he convinced. Upon hearing this, Sivaraman decided to meet Krishnanda to progress in his own spiritual path. Krishnanda provided the book named 'Siddha Vedham'.One day at dawn, Sivaraman planned to leave his parents and to go Vadagarai. As he got ready to leave home, wavered to leave his parents or not. After observing his actions, his mother said to go wherever he wanted. However, thinking of his parents, he did not leave for two years and he did not meet Krishnanda again during this mean time.

Later, when sivaraman met Krishnanda, he told him to meet Visiri swamy. After getting path directions from railway station master, he met visiri swami at Thiruvannamalai. Sivaraman later met Poondi Swamy at Kalasapakkam. In order to meet him,Sivaraman stood in queue holding a cup of tea along with other devotees. On Sivaraman's turn, only one sentence Poondi swamy spoke "Go high up".

Sivaraman's grandma 'Thayaramma' celebrated Vallalar on 'Poosam' day. At that time he viewed the photo of vallalar and was confused on looking to his dressing, whether he was a man or woman. He knows only 'Om Nama Sivaya". His grandma normally go to Vadaloor to serve food.

Later, when Sivaraman sat in Meditation, placed an invitation. On that day, he came to know that day is 'Poosam' day in the daily calendar. He went to 'Vadaloor' for jyothi tharisanam. He started reading the book of Ramalinga Swamigal. One day, a holy person named 'Agadanantha swami' came to Sivaraman house and advised him, saying that sitting and staying in 'Samathi' Practising is not right. He gave him the '6th Thirumurai' book to read, later he taken back. After a period, he saw the first page of the same book in the dustbin of his house, he tracked, found and purchased the same book from an old book shop. He keeps that book with him even now.

He learned yoga through the book yoga Makaranda Krishnamacharya and from N.Rajan of Chidambaram, the person who he met for a Pneumatic issue at bone joint. During year 1967, he had a friend named kasiviswanatha Gurukal, both they went to temples located at Ealumedu, Natthamedu, Paaloor, to do ornamentation job and earn a little money. With that money, they travelled and visited many temples and sadhus.

He did many small businesses, such as bunk shop,a fruit shop, a bicycle rental shop and a rice shop.

Spiritual experience
Sadhu Sivaraman claims he had a remarkable first-time experience with meditation at the age of 23. After his first experience, he tried to leave the room, he felt excessive sweating and door appeared multiple illusion. He was unable to recognize which one was the real door. Later, as he tried to eat, he saw multiple vessels around him. he tried hard and eventually managed to eat.

He usually sits in meditation for hours a day, and stays in Samadhi for three to five days. One time, he decided to sit and stay in Samadhi for a month. He went inside his mediation room and locked the door. After five days, he could no longer sit inside the room as he felt a disturbance that his parted worried parents were sitting near the door of his room without eating food, waiting to see sivarman. On that occasion, he promised his parents that he would no longer sit in samadhi for weeks time.

Awakening
With his progressing spiritual inclination, he met Krishnanda at Ashram, Thiruvannamalai. Sivaraman considered and treated him as his guru.

Social Life
Dyana Mandabam offers a meditative place that does not ascribe to any particular faith or belief system. He is pure vegetarian and all of his speeches delivered are towards motivating vegetarian.