His Holiness · Our A:cha:rya
HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji
Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Chinna Srimannarayana Ramanuja Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji
Visionary spiritual master, transformational social reformer, and compassionate humanitarian — guardian of Sri Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya's thousand-year message that the door of the divine is open to all.
“Serve all beings as service to God.”
“Worship your own… respect all.”
The Journey
From Arthamuru to the World
Born on Deepavali day, November 3, 1956, in Arthamuru village of Andhra Pradesh — the same village where Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swamiji had built India's first Harijan colony — Swamiji belongs to the illustrious order of Jeeyars, ascetics entrusted with guiding society through knowledge, compassion, and service.
He met his inspirer, HH Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji, in 1975, and took the Sanyasa Asramam in 1980. He became the first Tridandi Jeeyar to carry the tradition overseas — never once deviating from the exacting practices of a Tridandi sanyasi as he traveled the world.
In 1981 he formed the Jeeyar Educational Trust; in 2023 the Government of India conferred on him the Padma Bhushan, the nation's third-highest civilian honor, for exceptional contributions to spiritualism.
100K+
Lives touched through social service
10,000+
Students supported across schools
4.1M+
Women screened by MAV health camps
50+
Countries reached by his message
An A:cha:rya Who Practices First
Works That Carry the Teaching
2022
Statue of Equality
The 216-foot monument to Sri Ra:ma:nuja:cha:rya near Hyderabad — a 108-ft statue upon a 54-ft Bhadra Vedi, housing a 120 kg golden murthy and replicas of all 108 Divya Desams.
2001
Nethra Vidyalaya
Education for the visually challenged — including India's first junior and degree colleges for the blind, where students write board exams on laptops without a scribe.
2009
JIVA Gurukulam
The Jeeyar Integrated Ve:dic Academy at Shamshabad, opened on Sri Pedda Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji's centenary — Ve:da:, Agama, Ve:da:ntha and modern schooling, free for every child.
2004–07
Jeeyar Gurukulams
Tribal schools at Allamapalli, Birsaipeta and Katarivaripalem, bringing quality education to remote communities of Telangana.
2007
Mahila Arogya Vikas
A women's health mission screening for cervical and breast cancer — over 4.1 million women reached, with screening costs cut from lakhs to thousands.
2013
JIMS Hospital
Free and affordable healthcare, from homeopathy education to medical camps serving underserved rural communities.
On Receiving the Padma Bhushan
“We feel very humbled to receive all this credit… for it is all of you who are really doing everything and creating wonders always. We are going and receiving this absolutely on behalf of you.”
— HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swa:mi:ji, 2023