India has been a coun­try of gods, sages, teach­ers and thinkers since ancient times. In the same eter­nal tra­di­tion and as its rep­re­sen­ta­tive, the eter­nal­ly dec­o­rat­ed Shrotriya Brah­min­ishtha Brahm­lin Paramhans Swa­mi Mad­ha­vanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj was also there. He was the pro­tec­tor, sym­bol, nur­tur­er and inspir­er of ancient Indi­an Sanatan Vedic knowl­edge and tra­di­tion. Present­ly the embod­i­ment of his res­o­lu­tion is “Sri Vyas San­skrit Mahavidyalaya, Raghu­nath­pur, Kul­lu”, which is rapid­ly mov­ing towards its goal.

Most revered, Brah­ma­lin Paramhansa Swa­mi Mad­ha­vanan­da Saraswati Ji Maharaj was born in a cul­tured fam­i­ly of Nam­bood­iri­pad Vedic Brah­min of Ker­ala state. Grow­ing up in the envi­ron­ment of val­ues, ​​of Sanatan Vedic edu­ca­tion in his child­hood itself, Swami­ji had trans­formed into an expert Acharya of all the clas­si­cal and prac­ti­cal sub­jects like Vedas, Vedan­ta, San­skrit, rit­u­als, astrol­o­gy and Eng­lish lan­guage etc.

Swa­mi Ji’s ear­ly life (as revealed by Amar Singh Rana Ji, Retired B.D.O., Gaushal, Lahaul and Spi­ti, Himachal Pradesh) start­ed as a teacher.Swamiji, as served as preist with Devine Life Soci­ety of Sri Swa­mi Shiv­ana­da. Lat­er, being influ­enced by the Advai­ta doc­trine of Lord Sri Adi Shankaracharya, he became a per­son of great renun­ci­a­tion and took the Deek­sha of San­nyasa from Kailash Ashram of Rishikesh and con­tin­ued his spir­i­tu­al prac­tice while tour­ing India as a Parivra­ja­ka Sanyasi.

While trav­el­ing all over India most­ly on foot, he reached Kul­lu dis­trict via Pathankot in around 1960 AD. After being wor­shiped by many dig­ni­taries of  then Kul­lu and Himachal Pradesh, stay­ing for some time at many places in Kul­lu dis­trict, final­ly becom­ing a Brahm­lin in the present Vyasashram, Bhekhali Mod, Chhim­ba Bawa­di, Ramshi­la, Vyas­guha of Kul­lu, which is a tra­di­tion­al Sid­dh­aguha. He con­tin­ued doing sad­hana and became Brah­ma­lin on 23 April 1995.

Swa­mi ji remained in Parama­ham­sa state in Vyas Guha of Vyas Ashram for about twen­ty years. Dur­ing the last sev­en years of his life, the then Brah­machari Om Kumar Shar­ma (cur­rent­ly Dr. Om Kumar Shar­ma, founder of Brah­ma­lin Swa­mi Mad­ha­vanand Saraswati Veda-Vidya Shodh Sansthan (Reg­is­tered) and Prin­ci­pal of Sri Vyas San­skrit Mahavidyalaya, Raghu­nath­pur, Kul­lu) remained as clos­est dis­ci­ple and served Swami­ji all round.   Swami­ji encour­aged him (celi­bate Omku­mar Shar­ma) to fol­low the Sanatan Vedic tra­di­tion.

Res­o­lu­tion Of Swami­ji :-

                  Swa­mi ji’s res­o­lu­tion was that a com­pre­hen­sive cen­ter of Vedic knowl­edge should be estab­lished in Kul­lu dis­trict also, so that the mes­sage of eter­nal Indi­an knowl­edge con­tin­ues to flow in the soci­ety like Bhag­wati Gan­ga, becom­ing Gyan Gan­ga.

                    Swami­ji had a strong and def­i­nite opin­ion that for the progress of India and the world, Vedic knowl­edge must be prop­a­gat­ed and pre­served. Oth­er­wise, not only India but also world human­i­ty will sure­ly be destroyed.

The Indi­an way of life will have to be estab­lished on the ide­al of  Gita and Veda and the nec­tar of Vedan­ta will have to be made avail­able to the world human­i­ty, only then the duty of being a real Indi­an can be ful­filled.

                      Not only did Swami­ji had very intense and excit­ing burn­ing thoughts for the uplift­ment and con­tin­u­ous spread of San­skrit, the soul of India, but his life was also the embod­i­ment of the ideals of ancient Indi­an Sanatan Vedic knowl­edge. This ide­al tra­di­tion is also being fol­lowed in the form of Sri Vyas San­skrit Mahavidyalaya, Raghu­nath­pur, Kul­lu.