Sri Garudacharya was born at a village in the present day Trichy, during 18th Century AD, and he belonged to a pious Iyengar Brahmin Community. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Sri Krishna, and he inculcated the “KRISHNA BHAKTI” in the minds of the Hindus, and in fact he tried his level best to preach the essence of Krishna Bhakti amongst all classes of people, irrespective of their caste, creed, gender and religion. Due to his staunch devotion on Krishna, once he had got the divine darshan of Lord Krishna, and when he was asked by Krishna towards offering…
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Sri Ganesa Maharishi was an ancient sage who lived during the Treta Yuga. His birth name was Ganesa and he was a small king, before being attaining the status of the divine sage. King Ganesa ruled his kingdom in a nice manner. Once, there occurred a severe drought in his region, and due to that, his people suffered from severe poverty, and hence they began to gather in front of the palace of King Ganesa and explained about their problems. Due to that, the king began to donate as much food grains from his treasury, but it lasted only for…
The following Shaktinis are considered to be the ancient female women Shakti Devotees and most of them are considered to be the wise and learned female sages, and after their death, they were believed to have become Star Goddesses who shines brightly on the skies. MA MAHASHAKTINI DEVI Ma Mahashaktini Devi was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family in the year 722 A.D. From her young age, Shaktini, was interested in spirituality, and eagerly learnt the Hindu Spiritual texts from a famous Kashmiri scholar. She was married at her teenage, but her husband was died very soon after their marriage.…
Similar to the sixty three Nayanmar Saints who were devoted to Lord Shiva, there are also six Murugan Saints who are collectively known as Skandanars. Most of the Murugan devotees are not aware about the six great Skandanars, and hence, it is my duty to tell about their details, since I recently traced this rare information from an old Tamil spiritual Book! In order to describe the sweetness of these six wonderful saints, before writing this article, I had offered some sweets and fruits before the picture of Lord Muruga, and after some time I consumed the holy Prasad items…
Sri Shirdi Saibaba can also be classified as a Siddhar Saint, due to his characteristics like that of great Siddha Purusha. Siddhars are considered as divine people, who had attained high spiritual powers through constant meditation, they contain good knowledge in devotional subjects, and they are the devotees of Lord Shiva. Siddhars contains great powers, and they can take any form or can become invisible from our eyes. They have controlled their senses, and dedicated themselves on worshipping and meditating on the almighty, and they lived for a long span of life, and even if they leave their physical body, but their…
‘AANANDA RAMA’. In this form, Lord Rama appears in a blissful state. He appears happily with a smile on his face. Generally we would have heard about only the sorrows faced by Lord Rama in the epic Ramayana. But he has lived happily even in the forest by telling some wonderful stories to Ma Sita and Lakshmana, and he also happily interacted with the pious sages during the time of his ban period. The tension and stress which he has placed was happened only when he was separated from his wonderful consort Ma Sita, that is, during the time of…
Ma Avvaiyar who lived during 3rd century BC, is a famous female Tamil poet, and a staunch devotee of the Shiva Family, and she is said to have maintained good relationships with the ancient Tamil kings. She has written some verses in poems like Natrinai, Kuruntokai, Akananuru and Purananuru. According to ancient texts, she was a court poet of the kings of the Tamil Nadu. She has travelled to several places and composed lot of songs. Most of her songs were in praise of the kings, and deities like Lord Vinayaka, Muruga and Shiva, and also well known for maintaining proper governance of the…
The great Advaita Scholar, Sri Adishankara, had once visited the Kashi Viswanathar Temple, Varanasi, and had the darshan of Ma Annapurna Devi, and there he was directly fed food by Ma Annapurana herself from her own hands, and pleased with her motherly affection, Sri Adishankara began to sing a wonderful song in praise of the divine mother Annapurna, and the collection of those songs were came to be known as Gnanamirtham, and the wonderful lyrics are as follows:- Hey, Ma Annapurneswari you are the supreme Goddess of Kasi, and through your kindness, you makes the people happy, and gives boons…
Brahmanda (The Universe) means the entire worlds present on the skies which includes the fourteen worlds, the soon and moon, powerful planets and the shining stars. Before the creation of the universe what was there? Did anybody live on the clouds? Or did any divine light was present? Before the creation of the Universe, that is the Brahmanda, nothing was there! There was full of darkness, and no deities, humans and celestials were present! And this darkness was lasted for several millions of years, and finally, a huge radiance was developed on the skies, and as per our Hindu Puranas,…
Our honourable Guru Raghavendra Swamy must be considered as a great Maharishi, since he has contained vast ocean like knowledge in Shastras, Vedas, Ithikasas and Puranas. Once if we read his spiritual works, we would be of the opinion that our Madhwa Guru Raghavendra shines like a great Brahma Rishi! If we keenly observe him from one side, he looks like his Guru Madhwa, and if we observe him in another angle, he looks like the divine Guru Brihaspati, and if we still closely follow him, he looks like the great Vyasa Maharishi itself! In the famous text, “SRI RAGHAVENDRA…
Sri Sambandar also known as Thirugnana Sambandar was a great shaivite saint of Tamil Nadu who lived during 7th century AD. He is one among the 63 Nayanmars. He also contributed some portions of verses in the holy text Tirumurai. Sambandar was born to a holy shaivite Brahmin family in Sirkazhi at Tamil Nadu. It is believed that while he was a child and was hungry at a Shiva temple, Goddess Parvati appeared before him and given him milk. He told to his father, that he was being fed with milk by Mata Parvati and started singing beautiful song describing the greatness of Ma Parvati and those song is…
MA Annalakshiamma (12th century AD) also called as Annakka was a popular Telugu devotional poet, who wrote the most popular text, Sri Shiva Shakti Kalyanam in Telugu language. She was the daughter of the famous singer-poet Sarveshwara. Mata Annakka was considered as a divine incarnation of Mata Annapurna’s food pot (Amudha Surabhi- which contains unlimited food). Annakka was born in a Brahmin’s family, and she is considered as the first and foremost Telugu woman poet. After she had married with the great scholar and poet Sri Mahadev, she served as a dutiful wife to her husband, and behaved kindly with everyone. Even though, she was an expert…
Ma Kumari Bai (15th century AD) was a female saint and a great poet who had composed lot of devotional songs and sung in praise of Lord Krishna. According to legend, she was born in a pious Brahmin family in a village at Gujarat. She got married to a noble person and lived her life in the present-day Bhavnagar. She was the follower of the Krishna Bhakti Movement. They had a son, and he got married to a pious girl Ranibai. The entire family were very religious oriented and concentrated their attention on devotional activities and provided food to the visiting guests at their home. They…
Sri Sivashanmuga Nathar (17th century AD) was a saint-poet and a staunch Murugan devotee, who was associated with Lord Muruga’s earthly abode Tirtuttani. Sri Sivashanmuga Nathar was born in Tirtuttani, near the famous Sri Tiruttani Murugan Temple. He was blessed with Lord Muruga, and he has sung divine songs in praise of Lord Murugan. During his young age, he visited the six famous temples (ARUPADAI VEEDU) of Lord Murugan. After some time, he joined as the chief priest in Tiruttani Murugan Temple, and sincerely served to Lord Muruga. He was born due to the divine grace of Lord Muruga of Tiruttani. Sri Sivashanmuga Nathar left his house, and went…
Pancika is a yaksha and his consort is Hariti, and they had hundreds of children. According to the legend, Pancika was the army general of Lord Kubera, the god of wealth, and enjoys great powers by controlling the Yaksha army. He fought with several powerful warriors and won in the battles. Pancika appears along with his consort Hariti by keeping a bag of jewels in his hand. They were mentioned in Buddhist texts. He appears similar to his master Lord Kubera, and he is also believed to be the god of wealth. It is suggested to worship Lord Pancika and Mata Hariti while worshipping Kubera and his consort…
Prithu is a great king who was mentioned in Vedic texts. He is considered as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, and he is the son of Vena. From the name of Prithu, the earth goddess had obtained her name as Prithvi. He requested the earth goddess, Prithvi, to give proper vegetation in the earth. But she took the form of a cow and fled from his eyes, and she finally agreed to give her help in producing food grains and crops. He is also mentioned in Mahabharata and in Puranas. Prithu had a wife called Archi and had five sons.…
Lord Venkateswara is also called as Lord Venkataraman, since lot of similarities are present between these two wonderful avatars of Lord Vishnu! During the beginning of KaliYuga, Lord Vishnu took the Venkateswara Avatar, and he was married to Ma Padmavati. During the Treta Yuga, while Ma Vedavati has requested to marry her to Lord Rama, he politely refused and told to her, that during the time of his Venkateswara Avatar, he would marry her. Likewise, when Ma Vedavati took birth as Ma Padmavati, Lord Rama who was incarnated as Lord Venkateswara, married her in this present Kaliyuga, and fulfilled her…
Let’s cheerfully offer Sari to our Holy mother, Ma Shakti Devi, who is also fondly called as “AMMAN”, mostly by the South Indian devotees. The Sari found in the attached picture is that of my Kula Devi, Ma Angalamman, and the Silk Sari worn by her was presented by me and it was adorned on January 6th, 2023, which was supposed to be a (Full Moon) Pournami Friday and it was also The Sacred Thiruvadirai Festival day. The Sari which was adorned to Amman for so many times, would be usually sold at auction in the Amman Temples, and…
Devasena is the mother goddess and the consort of Lord Muruga. She is also known as Devayanai. Devasena is believed to be the daughter of Lord Indra, the chief of the demi gods. She got married with Lord Muruga in the Tirupparankunram, which is later constructed as Murugan Temple. According to ancient texts, Devasena was believed to be the daughter of Lord Vishnu in her previous birth. She performed penance on Lord Muruga, and due to that Lord Indra adopts her as his daughter and marries her to Lord Muruga. Muruga also helped Indra in defeating the demons in several battles. In most of the South-Indian temples,…
Sri Panduranga Dasa (1284-1364) was a devotee of Lord Panduranga, and a poet and saint. He was the disciple of the great saint Sri Pandarinath, and along with his Guru, he has written many bhakti songs on Lord Panduranga. His Guru has praised him for his great efficiency in writing and singing songs in praise of Lord Panduranga. He contributed a lot to the Carnatic music. He is also praised by the people as the master of Carnatic music. He is considered as an avatar of Madhav(One of the Gopalas), who was a close cowherd Yadava friend to Lord Krishna, during the previous Dwapara Yuga.…