Born in 1922 to his noble parents - Padmavathi and T. K. Rama, a well-known public figure and veteran nationalist in the freedom-movements - and educated in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Thulasiram entered into the profession of chartered Accountants in 1948. In the midst of a successful professional practice, he had the glimpses of inner blissful light and he was attracted to a life of spiritual discipline. He took mantra initiation in 1958 from the great saint, Swami Ramdass of Kanhangad (near Mangalore). an embodiment of divine Love, Light and Compasion. Illumined by the inspired yoga literature of Sri Aurobindo and touched by the graceful Blessings of the Mother on Her Darshan days, he joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram as an inmate in 1968, leaving the profession and care of his family members into the hands of his devoted brother. But all the family members too have become devotees of the Mother who cast Her spell of Love and Grace on them all.
Along with attending to the Mother's appointed work as auditor of the Ashram, he found time for making a comprehensive comparative study of Swami Ramalingam's works with those of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and Tirumoolar under the benign and graceful and inspiring atmosphere of the Ashram as well as that of Swami Ramalingam's holy place nearby which he visited from time to time. The Mother too had occasion to know of his study as he made reference to Her on Swami Ramalingam. The author has also made his contribution to Yoga by discovering the new Yoga of Magnet, the regular touch of which can open one into yogic consciousness and even into spiritual experieences.
He authored a book on Swami Ramalingam in two volumes. It is the outcome of a comprehensive study of his Tamil works in the comparative background of the yoga literature of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and that of Tirumoolar. The author, who is an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, presents in the first volume the Swami's integral realisation of the Divine, and the transformation of his nature and body into their deathless states of glorious perfection. The Swami has left behind a record of the full details of his divinised deathless body which are not to be found anywhere else, in any other spiritual literature of the East or the West. He sacrificed his deathless body, by dematerialisation in 1874, for the universal manifestation of the divine Light of supreme Grace directly on the earth, and with a view to enter into all the physical bodies universally and fix its deathless substances and powers into the earth-nature for the benefit of a divine evolution of the earthly life. The second volume contains the text and English translations in prose, of a number of his poems (Arut Paa), especially of his last works, and the transliteration into Sanskrit (in Roman script), of his rare and unparalleled works about the many gradations of worlds and planes (Tatva lokas and Karapāteeta lokas with text and notes).
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