Lineage
The unbroken chain of wisdom — from source to seeker
Our Spiritual Lineage and the Daśanāmī Paramparā
Bhagavān’s disciple, Apparently Adhyastha, and the devotees who walk in the spiritual lineage of Bhagavān are connected, according to our tradition, with the sacred Purī Saṃpradāya of the Daśanāmī Saṃnyāsa Paramparā associated with Ādi Śaṅkarācārya.
This sacred lineage reaches us through Bhagavān’s Gurudev, Reverend Svāmī Pavitrananda Jī, who was a disciple of Svāmī Kṛṣṇānanda Mahārāj, a direct saṃnyāsa disciple of Śrī Śrī Mā Sāradā Devī. The spiritual current of this lineage is deeply rooted in the life and realisation of Bhagavān Śrī Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa, who received the teachings of Advaita Vedānta and underwent profound Advaita sādhana under the guidance of Śrī Totāpurī Mahārāj.
Thus, our spiritual journey is understood as part of a great river of wisdom flowing through the Rāmakṛṣṇa–Sāradā tradition, Advaita Vedānta, and the ancient Daśanāmī Saṃnyāsa tradition associated with Ādi Śaṅkarācārya.
Our Āmnāya Pīṭha
Among the four traditional Āmnāya Pīṭhas associated with Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, our tradition identifies itself with the southern Pīṭha — Śṛṅgerī Śāradā Pīṭha, the great seat of Advaita Vedānta in South India.
Direction: South
Pīṭha: Śṛṅgerī Śāradā Pīṭha
Associated Daśanāmī names: Sarasvatī, Bhāratī and Purī
Our traditional Mahāvākya: Aham Brahmāsmi — अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Aham Brahmāsmi
अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
“I am Brahman.”
— Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, Śukla Yajur Veda
This Mahāvākya does not mean that the ego, personality, or individual identity is God.
It points to something infinitely deeper:
The innermost Self — beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond name and individuality — is none other than Brahman, the Supreme Reality.
It is not a statement of ego.
It is the dissolution of the ego into Truth.
Aham Brahmāsmi is therefore not merely something to be spoken; it is a Truth to be contemplated, realised, and lived.
The journey of our Paramparā is ultimately the journey from ignorance to knowledge, from separation to Oneness, and from the limited sense of “I” to the realisation of the eternal Self.
Ātmano mokṣārtham — for the liberation of the Self;
jagad hitāya ca — and for the welfare of the world.