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INTRODUCTIONVinayak Reddy was a great devotee of Lord Saneeswaran and he was born in the year 1945 in Cuddapah at Andhra Pradesh. He belonged to a Reddy wealthy family, and his father was doing garment trading business at his own store. Vinayak was a good person and after finishing his studies, he joined along with his father’s business, and helped him to flourish the business. At his teenage, he got married and had a son with the name Ramgopal. His wife was a good natured lady and helped her husband in his business.When Ramgopal has attained the age of 5, he got admitted him in a good school,..

INTRODUCTION :Sundaram was a Vedic scholar and served as a freelance Purohit and he stayed at Thiruvallur. He used to visit his client’s houses and perform rituals such as Grihapravesam, Amavasai Tharpanam and Thevasam. He also used to perform marriages to his clients at the Mandaps. He used to charge only a nominal fee, and due to that, he got large number of clients. Generally while performing purohit service, he will used to take only Tiffen items and coffee and would not take lunch, since it was his habit. One day, he went to a famous astrologer’s house in Ambattur, and performed ritu..

INTRODUCTION :Subramanian was a college lecturer in Chennai, and he was born in an orthodox Brahmin family. He has completed his M.Com and finished M.Phil also. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Ayyappa and every year used to visit the Sabarimala temple during the Mandala season. He served in the college for a few years, and got good name through his good teaching. This was caused jealous among the other lecturers, and they made a plan to send him out, and one of the lecturers had kept his money purse in the bag of Subramanian, and started calling others and informed them that his purse wa..

INTRODUCTION :Maitreya was a great sage and he was mentioned in the Mahabharata. It is believed that he was one of the Vedic Rishis and also contains the features of Lord Brahma. During the Dwapara Yuga, he visited Hastinapur and advised Duryodhana to treat the Pandavas in a proper manner, and to give the share of ruling the kingdom to Pandavas, since Duryodana drove the pandavas out from his kingdom, after winning in the dice game, and pandavas went on exile to the forest. But, Duryodhana disrespected the sage, and due to that the sage cursed him to lose his life in the hands of Bhima d..

INTRODUCTION :Brahmin’s who have Koundinya Gotra are considered as descendants of Koundinya Maharishi. And people belonging to koundinya Gotra are found in North as well as in South India, and are living all over the world. Ancient Brahmin kings who contains Koundinya gotra ruled in major parts of India.Rishi Koundinya is mentioned in various puranas and other ancient sacred texts.It is believed that Rishi Koundinya was lived in a village at Bihar, and he was born before few thousands of years. His consort name was Shila, and they had one son. Koundinya contains high level of spiritual powers ..

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...