Devotional Articles

INTRODUCTION :Baba Hariram (1867–1947) was a great saint and lived in Sindh Province of Pakistan.  He was a great guru and a spiritual leader, who was a sincere devotee of Lord Srirama, and used to frequently chant the Rama Mantra “JAI SRIRAM”, and also insists others to do so. He was fondly called as Baba, due to his vast knowledge in all the subjects and based on his spiritual teachings. He was the disciple of Baba Kriparam, who also an ardent devotee of Lord Srirama. His follower was Sri Bhagat Wadhuram, an illiterate man who had changed into 'Baba' through the grace of Lord Rama.Devot..

INTRODUCTION :Sriram belongs to Brahmin community, who lived during the 20th century. He served as a Brahmin priest at a small Krishna temple in a village in Karnataka.  He was an ardent devotee of Guru Raghavendra. After attaining teenage he got married to a pious girl, and soon he had one son. After becoming a family man, since he has previously served as a sales executive in a company, and since he has to support his aged parents, his wife and child, he applied and got a sales executive job in a company at Japan.Somehow, he utilized his entire savings and collected money from his neigh..

INTRODUCTION : Ekalavya is a noble person who was mentioned in the great epic  Mahabharata, and he was the adopted son of a tribal king. Ekalavya wants to learn archery from Guru Drona, but he was not taught, since he was born in a lower caste. Ekalavya used to worship Drona from his mind, and had self-studied the art of archery by himself, and become an expert in archery after several years of training. His wife was Devi Angraini who was a chaste and a holy woman and served as a dutiful wife to her husband Ekalavya.Once, Drona saw the skills of Ekalavya in archery and asked for his ..

INTRODUCTION : Sukrathindra Thirta (1897–1949) was the pontiff of the Kashi Math. He was a noble scholar and was well educated in ancient Upanishads, vedas and puranas. He was very clever at his childhood itself, and used to sing songs in praise of Lord Krishna at the nearby temples.Sukrathindra Thirtha became the chief of Kashi Math in 1914 after his guru has attained Mahasamadhi in Mumbai. During his period, he had performed Puja to the deities at the mutt in a good manner, and provided wholesome meals to the devotees, and gave them the sacred rice (Akshadai), and blessed them in a whol..

INTRODUCTION :Ugrasena was the king of Mathura, and Lord Krishna was the grandson of Ugrasena. Krishna's father, Vasudeva  was the Yadava King, and Vasudeva was the son-in-law of Ugrasena. Ugrasena regained his kingdom from his cruel son Kamsa, after Kamsa was killed by Lord Krishna. According to ancient legend, Ugrasena was the son of Ahuka, and he was a nice king, who had treated his people as his own family and provided all sorts of benefits to them. Once, Lord Krishna had asked for the Syamantaka jewellery from Satyajit, who was a yadava king, on behalf of Ugrasena, in order to p..

INTRODUCTION :Sri Ramachandra Teertha (16th century AD) was a madhwa saint and a famous scholar who lived in Punugonda, Andhra Pradesh and attained Samadhi in Penugonda. He was admired for his good knowledge and was praised by the king of Penugonda and also he helped him in discharging his duties. His guru was Sri Gopalaswamy and his disciple was Sri Raghunatha Teertha. He went on holy pilgrimages throughout Andhra Pradesh, and visited ancient temples and got great spiritual powers through that. He also helped the devotees by removing their sufferings and used to give the sacred akshada a..

INTRODUCTION : Lord Ganesha is the first god and considered as a very holy deity among the other deities. By worshiping him, all of our obstacles would be removed, and our behavior would be changed, and we would get a new life and good energy through his blessings. In general, in their free time, people are going to picnic, parks, cinemas and other entertainment related places. According to me, apart from these places, if we spend some time and worship these forms of Vinayaka by chanting his various slokas and his various names from our house itself, we would get good benefits in our life..

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..

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...

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..