Guru Vagbhatanandan was born as Kunjikannan on April 27, 1885, the son of Vayaleri Cheeruvamma of Patyam, North Malabar, and Koran Gurikal, a Sanskrit scholar, poet and progressive thinker. The 'Atmavidyasangam' Spiritual Society formed by him for the spread of spiritual philosophy and the activities based on it was largely focused on social reformation work. The life of the Guru was a struggle against the social conditions that caused division, such as caste, as the principle of oneness rejects all such distinctions.