Devotional Articles

Shanta
INTRODUCTION :Shanta was the daughter of the great king Dasharatha and Kausalya, who was later adopted by King Rompad and Queen Vershini and she was born in the Treta Yuga.Shanta was the consort of the great rishi Rishyasringa, son of sage Vibhandaka. Shanta was well educated in Vedic subjects and talented in all kinds of arts and she was considered as a beautiful chaste woman. Her consort Rishyasringa performed a yagna on behalf of king Dasharatha in order to get noble children. And after the performance of the yagna, the divine avatars, Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna were born.Shant..
Sri Yadavendra Teertha
INTRODUCTION: Sri Yadavendra Teertha (16th century AD) was a contemporary of Sri Raghavendra Teertha, and his Guru was Sri Sudheendra Teertha, and his disciple was Sri Lakshminatha Teertha.Sri Sudheendra Teertha taught him various divine subjects and gave him sainthood, and after that Sri Yadavendra Teertha went for Holy Pilgrimages.  After visiting several holy temples, he visited Kumbakonam and met Sri Raghavendra Teertha who was the pontiff of the Kumbakonam mutt.Raghavendra Teertha invited him to Kumbakona Vidyapeeta and requested him to take charge of the Vibudendra Tirtha Mutt...
Vasudeva
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..
Chitrangada and Vichitravirya
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 ..
Bhurishravas
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..
Bhanumati
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..
Shiva Puran
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..
Vinayaka Purana
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 ..
Satyavati
INTRODUCTION :Satyavati was the consort of the Hastinapur King Shantanu  and she was the great-grandmother of the Pandavas and Kauravas. She is the mother of the great sage Vyasa, who is the author of Mahabharata. In her previous birth, she was a celestial dancer, and due to a curse, she had taken the birth as Satyavati. She was adopted by a fisherman, and she lived along with her father on the banks of the holy river Yamuna. Once Satyavati met the great sage Parashara, and through his union, Rishi Veda Vyasa was born to her. Through his great powers, Rishi Parashara had made her to ..
Sri Varadendra Theertha
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..
Guruvayur Temple to Lord Guruvayurappan
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..
Sri Nadana Gopala Nayaki Swamigal
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..
Tholaikadhu Siddhar
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..
Thilakavathiyar
INTRODUCTION :Thilakavathiyar (7th century AD) was a great Shiva devotee and she was born in a Vellalar family in a village in Tamilnadu. Her parents were also ardent devotees of Lord Shiva, and her brother was Marulneekkiyar, who was later known as Thirunavukarasar. She was very religious, and used to regularly worship Lord Shiva in the temples and at her home. She also offered food to the poor people along with her family on a daily basis. At her teenage, she got married with Sri Kalipagai, who was the army chief of the Pallava King. He was cunningly killed by the enemy army forces duri..
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