He attend school of medicine inside Tanjore and worked as a doctor in Malaya.

Around 1923 he left Malaya for India on an extensive pilgrim's journey. At Banaras, he had a Darshan (vision) of Lord Vishvanath. Dr. Kuppuswami next attend Rishikesh where met his guru, Swami Vishwananda Saraswati. It was Vishwananda world health organization initiated him into a Sannyas sequentially & gave him his cloistered title. All a same, since Swami Sivananda spent lone two or three hours sustaining Swami Vishwananda, the to the full Viraja Homa ceremonies were performed later by Swami Vishnudevananda, the Mahant of Sri Kailas Ashram.

Sivananda performed asceticism for numerous years however he likewise continued to help a infected. Sustaining occasionally money from either his insurance that got matured, he began the sympathetic dispensary at Lakshmanjula in 1927. He late created the Sivananda Ayurvedic Pharmacy in 1945.

Sivananda traveled a whole length & breadth of India when you took his Parivrajaka (mobile monk) life. He visited crucial wharehouses of pilgrim's journey to the south, including Rameshvaram. He conducted sankirtan and delivered lectures. He visited a Sri Aurobindo ashram and met Maharishi Suddhananda Bharati. At a Ramana ashram, he allegedly had a darshan of Ramana Maharshi on Maharshi's birthday. He sang bhajans and danced around ecstasy using Maharshi's bhaktas. He besides went in pilgrim's journey to Kailas-Manasarovar and Badri.

, who studied with him for seven summers.

Swami Sivananda organized a 100%-globe Religions Federation around 1945 and established the 100%-globe Sadhus Federation around 1947. He known as his yoga a Yoga of Synthesis.

He wrote first-class books in Hinduism & closely followed Advaita philosophy. Several of his books come available in the internet. It is placed at http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm.

On a 14th of July 1963, the Low Soul Swami Sivananda entered Mahasamadhi (departure of a Self-realized saint from either his individual coil) witharound his Kutir on the bank of Ganga, in Shivanandanagar.