Devotional

INTRODUCTION :According to the Bhagavata Purana, Vasudeva was the father of Lord Krishna and his consort was Devaki, and his sister was Mata Kunti, a popular character in Mahabharatha. He was the Yadava prince and the son of the Yadava king Shurasena. It is believed that he was also the cousin of Nanda Gopa, who took care of Lord Krishna during his childhood. Nanda Gopa was the ruler of the Gokulam, a popular place of Yadavas.Due to the divine orders, Vasudeva had safely placed Lord Krishna in the palace of Nanda Gopa, and Lord Krishna was brought up in the palace of Nanda Gopa till his teenag..

INTRODUCTION :Chitrangada was an ancient king and lived during the Dwapara Yuga. According to Mahabharata, he is the elder son of Shantanu and Satyavati.Chitrangada had become the Kuru king after Shantanu's death. Chitrangada was an excellent warrior and contains very good qualities. Once he was killed in a battle held between him and the Gandharvas. After his death, his younger brother, Vichitravirya become the ruler of the Kuru dynasty.After attaining teenage he got married to Ambika and Ambalika, the daughters of Kasi king. But after pleasantly living with his wives for some years, he fell ..

INTRODUCTION: Bhurishravas was a prince in the kingdom of Bahlika and he was a noble character in Mahabharatha. Bhurishravas was the grandson of the great King Sri Bahlika, who was the incarnation of Sri Bhakt Prahalad.Bhurishravas father was Somadatta, who was also a noble king and the son of Bahlika. The Bhor Saidan village named after Bhurishravas is located near Kurukshetra  is one of the famous tourist  site in Kurukshetra which is situated in the state of Haryana. Bhurishravas had contained many good qualities such as providing food to the people, and patiently listening t..

INTRODUCTION :Bhanumati is a noble character in Mahabharata. She was the daughter of king Chitrangada and Queen Chandramudra, and she was the wife of Duryodhana. Though her consort Duryadhana contains bad behaviour, she was a chaste and a worshipful lady and a dutiful wife. She had given proper suggestions to her consort Duryodhana to avoid enmity with Pandavas, but he didn’t accept her suggestion. She looks very beautiful and was very calm and intelligent lady. She treated Karna as her own brother and used to play dice with him. Karna’s wife and Bhanumati were very good friends, and they main..

INTRODUCTION :As per Shiva Puran, during the Dwapara Yuga, there lived a pious Brahmin in the city of Varanasi whose name was Shankara, and he was very noble and a religious person. He served as a priest in the Shiva Temple, and he used to wake up early in the morning, finishes his routine works, and fetches water from the temple well, and would start doing Abhishekham and Puja to Lord Shiva. After finishing Puja, he would distribute the temple Prasad to the devotees, and then only he used to take his food. He was well versed in Vedas and Hindu divine texts.In course of time, due to his selfle..

INTRODUCTION :According to Vinayaka Purana, during the treta yuga, there lived a noble king named Rukmantaka, who ruled the southern part of India. He was very pious and an intelligent king and he treated all of his people in a good manner, and provided all sorts of benefits to them. During his period, there was no scarcity of food, no earthquake, there were no sufferings and sorrows and there was sufficient rain and all the food crops grow up properly and there was very good harvesting in his region. Rukmantaka was an ardent devotee of Lord Vinayaka, and used to chant his mantra and his ..

INTRODUCTION:Sri Varadendra Theertha (18th century AD) was a great Madhwa saint and lived in Pune. His disciple Bhuvanendratheertha had built the pune Mutt for his guru. He was a great scholar and well-versed in Sanskrit language. His predecessor of the Mutt was Sri Vasudheendra Teertharuand his successor of the Mutt was Sri Dheerendra Teertharu, and his Samadhi Shrine is situated atPune. He had won in the debates held with great scholars. He had maintained the Pune Mutt in a proper manner, and performed puja to Lord Moolarama, Krishna and other deities with much devotion. He travell..

INTRODUCTION :Once there lived a holy priest and served in the Guruvayur Temple to Lord Guruvayurappan. His name was Nenmini. He was very pious and a kind hearted person. He had one young son whose name was Unni, and he used to help his father in his puja activities. Once, since the priest wants to go somewhere urgently, he asked his son to do puja and to offer Prasad to the Lord. The young boy agreed, and done puja in a wonderful manner and decorated the idol of the Lord with various flowers and flower garlands and burnt the agarbathies and camphor, and showed deeparadhana to the Lord, and fi..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Nadana Gopala Nayaki Swamigal was born in Madurai in a Saurashtra Family before few hundred years. He has considered himself as the consort of Lord Krishna, and used to appear like that. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna, and sung several songs on him. He also wrote a text mentioning the greatness of Sri Ramanuja, and explained the importance of Guru Bhakti. He insists us to worship Lord Krishna and Ramanuja for getting great prospects in our life, and to get SALVATION after the end of our life.He used to perform bhajans in the Krishna temples and perform pujas a..

INTRODUCTION :Tholaikadhu Siddhar was a great siddhar who lived in Pondicherry before 300 years, and he stayed in the Manakkula Vinayaka Temple and performed meditation on Lord Vinayaka and got great powers. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Vinayaka who would regularly pluck flowers in the early morning from the nearby flower garden and perform puja to Lord Vinayaka. He used to eat only fruits and milk which was offered to him by the devotees of Lord Vinayaka. During his period, he has removed the sufferings of the people, and removed the mental worries and physical diseases and made them..