Devotee

INTRODUCTION :Muruganar (1890-1973) is a great devotee of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi. He was born in a pious Brahmin family in Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu. He composed lot of poems in praise of Ramana Bhagavan, and Lord Shiva with great devotion. His birth name was Subramania Iyer.He was a great Tamil scholar, and for some time he worked as a teacher in a private school.He visited Ramana during the year 1923, and immediately realized that Ramana Maharshi was his Guru. He also visited Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple. He used to prepare poems and show it to Guru Ramana, and he has been praised by ..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Ramanuja who was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, once while he was travelling to Melkote at Karnataka, Lord Vishnu, in his dream had appeared and told to him that the utsava-murti  of Sri Cheluva Narayana in Melkote, was stolen by the Moguls, and it was kept in Delhi. Sri Ramanuja immediately went to the palace of sultan and requested him to return the deity. The sultan told to him, that the deity was safely kept by the princess, and in order to test the powers of Ramanuja, he further told to him, that if he wanted to take the deity, the deity must automatically ..

INTRODUCTION : Narayan Govind Chandorkar also called as Nanasaheb Chandorkar, was a sincere devotee of Sai Baba. He was born in a pious Hindu family. His parents used to offer free food to the poor people on a daily basis, and perform Narayana Puja at their home. His father worked in the central government and built a home at Kalyan and still his descendants are living in that home.After completing his graduation, he served as an officer under the British Rule. Due to his good service, he has got promotions, and attained a top position in the British government. He was a great scholar, an..

INTRODUCTION: Sattam Maharaj was born in a small village at Maharashtra during the year 1877 to a pious family and his family members were ardent devotees of Lord Shiva, and they would daily perform puja at their home, and offer food to the poor people. He was born through the grace of Lord Shiva. Sattam Maharaj also participates in the puja and spent several hours in the Shiva temple by doing meditation and worshiping the god. He was good at education and learnt all the Hindu scriptures and was an expert in all kinds of arts and proficient in regional languages. His birth name was Shanka..

INTRODUCTION : According to Hindu legend, Sampati was the elder son of Aruna and the brother of Jatayu. He is a vulture. Sampati had a son named Babhru, who was very pious and holy person. Sampati lost his wings at his childhood. Sampati and Jatayu, when young, competed with other as to who could fly higher in nilmatha. During such an activity, Jatayu flew very high into the sky that he was about to get burned by the sun's flames. Sampati saved his brother by spreading his own wings and thus protected Jatayu from the flames of Lord Surya. Due to that, Sampati him..

INTRODUCTION:Sri Vilvamangalam Swamigal (1268-1369) was a great saint, poet and a devotee of Lord Guruvayurappan, a form of Lord Krishna. He was born in a village in Trichur District at Kerala. He has written many devotional poems in praise of Lord Krishna, and sung in front of the Guruvayurappan deity at his famous temple in Kerala. Sri Krishna Karnamrutam was the famous work rendered by the great saint. Though he belonged to shaivite sect, he was a great devotee of Lord Krishna similar to Narayana Bhattadhiri and Poonthanam Namboodri. He was a great scholar who has studied all the hindu scri..

INTRODUCTIONVenkata Desai (16th century) was the landlord in the Kiritakiri Village, Karnataka, and belonged to an orthodox family. He was the chief person in the village, and lived along with his wife and his small child. He lived during the time of Guru Raghavendra, and was a great devotee of him. He was a pious and a noble scholar who was thorough in all the sacred texts, and lived an honest life, by regularly doing pujas, homams and abhishekhams at his home as well as in the temples of Lord Vishnu, and lived peacefully with sufficient wealth.Once, during his yatra, Guru Raghavendra visited..

INTRODUCTIONLakshmi Bai was born and brought up at a village near Yeola. At her younger age, she got married with a noble scholar Sri Tukaram Patil Shinde, and came to Shirdi. She had two sons. Her husband served as a village revenue officer, and performed his duties in a wonderful manner, and was praised by the British Government, for his remarkable service. But he died at his younger age, and due to that Lakshmi Bai has become a widow at her younger age, and the entire responsibility of taking care of her family fell on her shoulders. Lakshmibai looked after her children in a proper man..

INTRODUCTIONMorya Gosavi (14th century) also called as Moroba Gosavi was a popular saint and an ardent devotee of Lord Ganesha. It is believed that he was born in Bidar, Karnataka, to a noble family, and since he was lazy at his childhood, and didn’t attend to the school properly, his father has sent him out from the home. The young child wandered in the streets and had his food by taking alms, and traveled to many places and finally reached chinchwad, pune, maharashtra. And from there, he reached morgaon and visited the famous temple of Lord Ganesha, and for some time stayed in that plac..

INTRODUCTION: Once there lived a holy person Sri Bodhala Bawa in a small village at Maharashtra, and he was a small merchant, and an ardent devotee of Lord Vital of Pandharpur. He would visit regularly on every Ekadasi to Pandharipur and would have the darshan of Lord Vital at Pandharpur temple. In Ekadasi he and his wife would observe fasting, and take bath in the river chandrabaga, and then worship Lord Vital at the temple, and would stay in the temple during the night, and the next day dwadasi morning, he would offer food to at least two devotees at Pandharpur. For several years, he wa..