Sadguru Sivananda Murty

Infobox Hindu leader
name=Kandukuri Sivananda Murty


birth-date= birth date and age|1928|12|21
birth-place=Flagicon|India Andhra Pradesh, India
spouse = Late Ganga Devi
birth-name=Sivananda Murty

Kandukuri Sivananda Murty is a well-known Indian scholar and a humanist with a wide following in India and in other countries, who writes about Indian heritage and culture, spirituality and philosophy. He has published many books and articles in newspapers and journals. He lives in his ashram "Ananda Van" in Bheemunipatnam, Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Family

Kandukuri Sivananda Murty was born on December 21, 1928 into a royal family of Urlam and Devadi Villages in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh.

His parents Sri Veerabasavaraju and Smt.Sarvamangala were great worshippers of Lord Shiva and built around 200 temples in His dedication. From his child hood days, he was deeply drawn towards spiritual subjects and especially towards Yoga sastra.

Career and Life

He graduated in Science from Vizianagaram in the year 1949 and later took up a sub-ordinate service in Hyderabad. Even while serving the Police Department of Andhra Pradesh, he devoted a great deal of his time in serving the poor and needy and educating the people about Hindu Dharma and its eternal verities. He opted for voluntary retirement as an officer and devoted himself to cultural and charitable service to the society.

His love for his great country and its ancient culture rooted in Sanathana Dharma is indeed phenomenal and unique. As a spiritually powerful public communicator, he constantly exhorts in all his public lectures that all citizens, including Sanyasis, who are dependent on Society are duty bound to think and act as custodians and trustees of public welfare. He is a walking encyclopedia on Hindu Dharma, History, Indian Fine arts like, Music, Dance, Drama and literature.

His essays on contemporary subjects like cultural, political and spiritual history were serialized in a Telugu daily, and was later published in two volumes under the name of "Bharatiyata." His commentary on Kathopanishad received profound acclaims from the Paramacharya of Kanchi and Sringeri Shankaracharya.

Teachings

Guruji's main emphasis portends to 'Sanathana Dharma'. He has been striving to educate Indians especially to get back to the rich value system that existed in India and that one which will once again make all the citizens of this country proud. He tirelessly reminds every Indian of the values and glory of 'Sanathana Dharma', the principles of which when followed will instil a sense of pride and self respect.

Literature

Some of speeches and articles have been published into books - Bharateeyata, Bharateeyata -2. He has authored books on 'Katha Yoga'.

Guruji has written a series of articles in various magazines and newspapers and has to his credit more than 450 articles, on educating and inspiring the common man towards righteous living, in the Telugu Daily Andhra Bhoomi.

Guruji's book - "Maharshula Charitra" about Indian saints was released in the later part of 2007.

He also authored a coffee table book on the film "Gautama Buddha" (Year 2008).

Guruji has a collection of 16000 volumes in his personal library at Bheemunipatnam.

Public Service

Guruji is the Chief Patron of :

Sanathana Dharma Charitable Trust that honours deserving individuals who contribute to the field of Arts, Science & Technology, Literature, Medicine, Journalism, Humanities and other intellectual pursuits. The Trust conducts an annual ceremony bringing together greats in these several fields and honours them.

Andhra Music Academy was established to promote the cause of 'Indian classical Music' and dance which is slowly losing its roots. SADGURU estalbilshed a Hall with advanced recording equipments for the musicians who are interested in recording classical music and to conduct workshops at ANAND VAN Ashram. The Academy has been successfully organising a Music festival every year in Hyderabad.

Awards and Honours

*"Raja-Lakshmi Award" for the year 2000 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai
* Honorary Doctorate from Telugu University, Hyderabad

Others

Guruji is very well travelled and has toured extensively to all parts of India and also Indonesia, Nepal and the USA.

Guruji has been instrumental in the research, concept and original script of the multilingual feature film Buddha (2007 film).

Newspaper article links

* [http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/may07/290507ss1.htm My humble salutations to Sadguru Sivananda Murty] Article by Sri.V.Sundaram in Newstoday 29th May 2007
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/03/31/stories/2003033101290300.htm Friend, Philosopher and Guide] The Hindu

External links

* [http://mihira.com/wisdommasters/sivananda.htm Interview with Sadguru] Mihira.com
* [http://sadguruprathasivanandamurthy.blogspot.com sadguruprathasivanandamurthy.blogspot.com]

Links to some Speeches by Guruji (audio files for download)
* [http://ourhome.in/downloads.html ourhome.in/downloads.html]