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 ================================================================ ================================================================ Tuesday, July 12, 2022. 08:30. Bhakti yogam : =============================================================== Meera is regarded as an incarnation of Radha. She was born in Samvat 1557 or 1499 A.D. in the village Kurkhi, near Merta, a small state in Marwar, Rajasthan. Mira was the daughter of Ratan Singh Ranthor and the grand-daughter of Dudaji of Merta. The Ranthors of Merta were great devotees of Vishnu. Mira Bai was brought up amidst Vaishnava influence, which moulded her life in the path of devotion towards Lord Krishna. She learnt to worship Sri Krishna from her childhood. When she was four years of age, she manifested religious tendencies. Once there was a marriage procession in front of her residence. The bridegroom was nicely dressed. Mira, who was only a child, saw the bridegroom and said to her mother innocently, “Dear mother, who is my bridegr...

 ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Monday, June 06, 2022. 06:00. AZHWARS: The Mystic Vaishnavite Saints of the South Bharatham ====================================================================== Azhwars (or Alvar) are the Vaishnavite saints who had composed a collection of 4000 hymns, called Nalayira Divya Prabhandham (4000 divine verses) in praise of Lord Vishnu and His many avatars. These verses are called “Dravida Veda” ­ that is Vedas in the Tamil language! The word Azhwar, in Tamil, means “one who is immersed”.  Since the azhwars were immersed in their devotion and love for the Lord, they were called so. The azhwars are twelve in number:­ 11 men and 1 woman, and they belonged to various castes, by birth. The only common thread amongst them all was their unwavering devotion to Lord Vishnu. The traditional view of the beginning of the timeline for the azhwars has be...

 ============================ *The 63 Nayanars in a Siva temple =========================================================== Friday , April 15, 2022, 06:00 Nayanars ========================================================== Introduction : *The Nalvar (lit. 'The Four') of Shaiva Siddhanta - (from left) Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar, the three foremost Nayanars, and Manikkavaasagar. ============================================================== The Nayanars (or Nayanmars;  lit. 'hounds of Siva', and later 'teachers of Shiva ) were a group of 63 poet-saints living in Tamil Nadu during the 3rd to 8th centuries CE who were devoted to the Hindu god Shiva. Along with the Alwars, their contemporaries who were devoted to Vishnu, they influenced the Bhakti movement in early medieval South India. The names of the Nayanars were first compiled by Sundarar. The list was expanded by Nambiyandar Nambi during his compilation of material by the poets for the Tirumurai collection, and ...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Thursday, March 3, 2022. 6:00.AM. Sri Namdev : =============================================================== 1.Introduction : Namdev of Maharashtra was a saint of mediaeval India. He was not a servant of Lord Krishna, but His companion. Namdev was an Amsa (part) of Lord Krishna. Namdev was a contemporary of Jnanadev, the famous saint of Maharashtra, being his senior in age by about five years. He was born in 1269 A.D. He came of a family of tailors who were sincere devotees of Vittala of Pandharpur. The family members were observing the Wari of Pandharpur, i.e., going on pilgrimage twice a year on the first eleventh day of the Ashadh (June-July) and Kartik (October-November) months. The family originated from a village called Narsibamani on the bank of the river Krishna, near Karad, in district Satara. Being a great devotee of Vittala and wishing to impr...

===================================== ======================================= Thursday, December 30, 2021. 6:00.AM. Swami  Chidananda Saraswati ======================================= Chidananda Saraswati 2016 stamp of India. Personal Born Sridhar Rao, 24 September 1916, Mangalore Died 28 August 2008 (aged 91),  Religion Hinduism Philosophy Yoga of Synthesis, Religious career Guru Sivananda Saraswati -------------------------------------------------------- Introduction : Chidananda Saraswati  (24 September 1916 – 28 August 2008) was President of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India. He is well known in India as a yogi, dnyani and spiritual leader. He succeeded as President of the Divine Life Society in 1963, after the death of his predecessor, Sivananda Saraswati, who founded the Society. Chidananda's birth name was Sridhar Rao. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola College, Chennai. He took to a life of renunciation in 1936, and joined the Siva...