Swami Rama, Founder of Promoting Society, was born in 1925 at Village-Toli, Malla Badalpur, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand (erstwhile Uttar Pradesh)  to a learned Brahmin family. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised from early childhood by a great yogi and saint of Bengal who lived in the foothills of the Himalayas.

In his formative years, he practiced various disciplines of Yoga and Philosophy in the traditional monasteries of the Himalayas.  He also journeyed to Tibet to study with his grandmaster and was also mentored and inspired by many adepts, including Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Later he received his higher education at Bangalore, Prayaga, Varanasi and Oxford University, England.