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Sree Subhananda Gurudevan (28:04:1882 - 29:07:1950)
Founder of Atma Bodhodaya Sangham Sree Subhanandashram
Lord Subhananda born on 28th April 1882 in Kulayikkal, Budhanoor village, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala to the devout Sambava couples Ittyathi and Kochu Neeli. Father was an astrologer and mother was pious woman. The couple was endlessly visiting the holy temples and performed several Pooja and Bhajans for a child. After the long twenty four years of marriage, the fortunate Kochu Neeli gave birth to a blessed child at the age of forty and blissfully named him as Paappan.
In small age itself, the “child” started giving spiritual discourses and did wonders. The bewildered parents thought some invisible power had entered their son and took the child to temples and renowned astrologers to seek the remedy. However, the priest in the temple devotionally said “you gave birth to the protector of mankind, a marvelous gift for this Kali Yug; who will be worshipped by millions”.
At the age of seven, from the 16th November 1888 Friday evening, the child has a heavenly light and its rays are omnipotent and its strength bespeaks of Kalki. This experience had lasted for three days continuously and returned to normal life on the fourth day of his eternal sight of Para-Brahma. He discovered that in the inner self of every individual, sparks of this heavenly light is burning and its existence can be realized only with the help of Jagath-Guru.
Following mother's death in 1894, Gurudev went on to pilgrimages inquest of studying the super spirit that immersed Him for three continuous days. The determined Gurudev has visited various holy places and met with different scholars, but no one could explain about the meaning of the revelation that He experienced.
Thapogiri : Thereafter during 1914, He went on to a deep mediation underneath a laurel tree for the realization of the divine light which he had experienced for three days from the 18th November 1888. This place is now known and referred as “Thapogiri”. After three years intense meditation He attained the heavenly enlightenment and that was the birth of the Njana Kalki..
Subhananda Gurudev started His noble mission of liberating the untouchable from the misery widely practiced and prevailed from slavery. He mingled with the underprivileged and so called untouchables, to educate them that the God has no distinction between and all creations are equal to Him. He declared there is only one Supreme Spirit and that is the creator, protector and savior of all mankind.
He declared that Lord Himself has taken birth in a Sambava caste in order to eradicate the injustice prevailed. He declared "all are one, one in Athma, one in harmony, you are not alien, if you feel alien that is the ignorance in you, because all are My creation and I am not different any"
The life of Subhananda Gurudev spanned a period of 69 fruitful years from 1882()April 28 th) to 1950 (July 29th). Subananda Gurudev attained Maha Samadhi at the age of 69, in 1950 at Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala, and His body was buried at Kottarkavu Ahram, Mavelikkara.He was a Unique personality, an unmatched thinker, a social reformer, an embodiment of truth, and the philosopher and Acharya of kaliyug. He was God Incarnated, truly the tenth Avatar of Lord Mahavishnu, undoubtedly the kaliyug Khadgi for all his devotees.
