As per the wish and advice of Swami Sivananda, he returned to Tamil Nadu and established an Ashram near Ooty. In 14-01-1937, he has started a Seva Sangh in a village(Athigaratty) near Ooty and named it as Kalaimagal Seva Sangam (KMSSA). In the early forties (1942), he established Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam in Tiruparaithurai, Tiruchi district. Since then, Tapovanam has established several educational institutions in Tamil Nadu and propagates the ideals of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda through religious and social activities such as book publishing.