Devotional Articles

INTRODUCTIONDevaki is the daughter of Devak, the sister of Kamsa, wife of Vasudeva  and the original mother of Lord Krishna. Since, king Kamsa had heard a divine voice from the sky that he is going to be killed by the eighth child of Devaki, he tortured them and killed their seven children, and put them in prison. And their eighth child Krishna was safely shifted to the palace of Nandagopa at Gokulam by Vasudeva. And Nandagopa’s female child was replaced in place of Krishna. While he attempted to kill the eighth child, the child which is the divine avatar of Mata Parvati, arouses int..

INTRODUCTIONShri.Gopalrao Mukund also known as Bapusaheb Buti lived in Nagpur and was an ardent devotee of SaiBaba. Though he was a rich person, he was a calm and kind hearted person, and helped the poor people by providing food, clothing and shelter to them. He has contained all the good qualities. He was very much praised by Baba for his good activities, and blessed him. He met SaiBaba in the year 1910, and from then onwards he stayed permanently in Shirdi along with his family to do service to Baba. Sai Baba used to fondly call him as “Butayya” and hug him with great affection.He would regu..

INTRODUCTION: Baba Balak Nath, is a great saint and well known for his yogic powers. He has incarnated in this Kali Yuga, in order to maintain peace and prosperity in the earth. He was considered as an incarnation of Lord Muruga. He was good at meditation and yoga.Baba Balak Nath is the forgiver of our sins, removes our mind and body related diseases and gives great strength and energy in our life, and the giver of boons. He is the follower of Nath Sect.According to legend, when once, Lord Shiva was sharing the spiritual matters with Mata Parvati in the cave of Amarnath, Parvati fell asle..

INTRODUCTIONArundhati is the wife of the sage Vashistha, and she is considered to be living in the Saptharishi Mandala, along with her husband Vashistha. We can see the rishi couples in the form of stars in the sky. She is considered as a pious woman with regard to chasteness and holiness.  Her importance is mentioned in ancient puranas and other holy texts. She is considered as the “MARVELLOUS GEM AMONG THE WOMEN”, and considers as a worshipful women. It is advisable for the newly married ladies, to worship Mata Arundhati, in order to get her blessings and to gain all the prosperities in..

INTRODUCTIONAngada is a vanara who helped Rama to find Sita and fought with Ravana.He was the son of Vali and Tara and nephew of Sugriva.Angada insisted Sugriva to immediately arrange the monkey army troupe in order to battle with Ravana and to get back Mata Sita from Ravana. Angada helped his level best during the Ramayana War.He got great energy, strength and boldness.In the Ramayana war that took place, Angada killed many great warriors of Ravana’s army, including, Ravana's son, and the army general of Ravana.After the completion of the war, Angada was praised by all the Vanaras and by Lord..

INTRODUCTION : Vasudevanand Saraswati (1854–1914), is a great saint and lived a simple and pious life throughout his life. He is also considered as an avatar of Lord Dattareya, and also known as Tembe Swami.His father was a noble Brahmin scholar who worked as a priest in the Gangapur temple in Karnataka. His mother also helped his father in doing puja at their home and provided wholesome meals to the devotees of Lord Dattatreya on a daily basis. After some time, due to the instructions of Lord Dattatreya, his father returned to Mangaon and soon after that the great Vasudev was born at Man..

INTRODUCTION : The Vaikom Mahadeva Temple is a famous shiva temple situated in Vaikom, Kerala. The temple is a popular temple similar to Ettumanoor Siva Temple and Kaduthuruthy Thaliyil Mahadeva Temple. By visiting these kerala temples altogether, our various wishes and needs will be fulfilled. Devotees can approach the temple officers, and can pay the prescribed amount of puja fee and perform the puja to the deities. In this temple, daily annadanam is provided to hundreds of devotees, which they consider it as very delicious.The Vaikom Mahadeva temple is worshiped by Shaivaites and the V..

INTRODUCTION :Vimalananda (1872–1908) was one of the main disciples of Swami Vivekananda. He was also called as Khagen Maharaj, and his birth name was Khagendranath Chatterjee. He published the great text Prabuddha Bharata. He was the chief of the Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati. And he founded the Ramakrishna Math at Ulsoor in Bangalore in 1906. Throughout his life, he concentrated his attention on spiritual matters, and read many holy books of saints and gods, and got good spiritual knowledge through that. He died in 1908 at the Mayavati Ashrama, and attained SALVATION due to the grace of Bhagav..

INTRODUCTION: Sri Srinivasa (1590-1640) belonged to Brahmin-Madhwa family, and was a great scholar and also an expert in sanskrit language. He was born in Bidarahalli. He also written many divine books, and lived a pious life. He was a great devotee of Sri Guru Raghavendra Swamy and lived during his period. His guru was Sri Yadavaaryaru. He lived in Honnali, Karnataka, and spread the importance of Dvaita philosophy of Sri Madhwacharya.Since he was born in an orthodox family, he followed the Brahmin customs and traditions strictly and he will never take food from the outside, and will eat ..

INTRODUCTION: Siva Prakasar was a poet, Shiva devotee and a Shaivite saint who lived during the 17th century AD. He was also known as 'Thurai mangalam Sivaprakasar'.  He had contributed lot of texts in Tamil, among them is the greatest text Nanneri, a work which contains teachings. He is a great poet and translated other language texts into Tamil texts. He wrote a Tamil poem “Neerotta Yamaha Anthathi”, which is considered as a best poem among the scholars and the common people.  LIFESivaprakasar was born in Kanchipuram  into a Shaivite Tamil Desikar family. He learnt T..

INTRODUCTION :During the Krita Yuga, in the Brahma Lok, among the several devas, there lived a noble deva, whose name is SANGUKARNAR. His main job is to come to the earth and pluck the fragrant flowers, and take it to the Brahma Loka, and give it to Lord Brahma Dev for performing Puja to Lord Vishnu. Once, he got delayed to return to the Brahma Loka, and due to that the Puja was not performed in the stipulated time by Lord Brahma. And hence, he was cursed by Brahma to be born into the family of demons, in the earth. Sri Sangukarna Dev was very much worried, and asked Brahma to apologize h..

INTRODUCTION: Sankarankovil is a place where the famous Sankara Narayanan temple is located. In order to make the devotees of Vishnu and Shiva to realize that both of these gods are one and the same, Lord Shiva and Vishnu were appeared in this place as Sankaranarayanar.It was built by the great Pandiyan king Sri Ukkira Pandiyan during the 9th century AD. The main deity of the temple is Swamy Sankara Narayanan, consisting of the appearance of both Vishnu and Shiva.The deities found in the temple are Sri Sankareswarar, Sri Gomathi Amman and Sri Sankara Narayanar.The holy sand of this temple..

INTRODUCTION: Panchajanya is the holy conch of Lord Vishnu. According to the famous legend, Mahabharata, the great demon Panchajanya also called as Shankhasur was lived in the Ocean Prabhasa and he kidnapped the son of Sandipani, the guru of Shri Krishna and imprisoned him in his place. The guru was very much worried about the condition of his son, and asked Lord Krishna to find and bring back to him. Immediately Lord Krishna went inside the sea and fought with the powerful demon, killed him and rescued the son of his guru, and took the conch shell along with him in order to use it during..

INTRODUCTIONPallikondeswara Temple is a famous temple dedicated to Lord Shiva and it is situated in Surutapalli, a village in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The main deity Pallikondeswara, unlike in other Siva Temples, will be in the form of resting posture, and such a kind of form is not found anywhere else.Palli Kondeswarar is found along with Mata Parvati who is called as Sarva Mangalambika, who gives all kinds of prosperity to us. The temple was built by the Vijayanagara kings. Here Lord Shiva is not worshipped in the form of Lingam. The divine idols of Ganesha, Muruga, Surya, Chandr..