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Ramananda is credited as the author of many devotional poems, but like most Bhakti movement poets, whether he actually was the author of these poems is unclear. Two treatises in Hindi, Gyan-lila and Yog-cintamani are also attributed to Ramananda, as are the Sanskrit works Vaishnava Matabja Bhaskara and the Ramarchana Paddhati. [10]
Swami Ramanand (born Rama Sharma) was born into a Brahmin family in Ayodhya in Vikram Samvat 1795 (1738 AD). His parents were Ajay Sharma (father) and Sumati (mother). He was considered to be the incarnation of Uddhava, a close friend of Krishna.
[citation needed] He received his primary education in a Bengali medium school, even though primary education the English medium had become available by then in Bankura. [citation needed] As a child he liked poetry and soon he was drawn to patriotism through the poems of Rangalal Bandyopadhyay. He passed Student-Scholarship Examination in 1875 ...
First chapter is known as Tattva-Nirūpaṇam, deals with the Tattva Trayam, i.e. Prakriti, Jiva and Parmatman. [6]Second chapter is known as Japyanirdhāraṇanirūpaṇam, deals with three main mantras in the lineage of Sri Rama Mantraraja, i.e. Rama Shadakshara Mantra (rāṃa rāmāya namaḥ), Dvaya Mantra (śrīmadrāmacandracharaṇau śaraṇaṃ prapadye, śrīmate rāmacandrāya ...
Despite taking Sannyassa or the pledge of renunciation, Swami Ramananda continued to work with the members of the Khedgikar family on his paternal side. His younger brother Bhimrao Bhagvanrao Khedgikar was a renowned educator who settled in the town of Ambajogai, Maharashtra on Swamiji's suggestion and worked with Swami Ramananda to help establish the Shri Yogeshwari Shikshan Sanstha.
Another bhakti saint, Ravidas, who was also a disciple of Ramananda, followed Ramanandi Sampradaya and also founded the Ravidassia sect. [40] [41] Bhaktamal, a poem written c. 1585 in Braj language, gives short biographies of more than 200 bhaktas. It was written by Nabha Dass, a saint belonging to the tradition of Ramananda.
According to Ramanandi tradition, Ramananda transmitted this text to Anantananda and Surasurananda.After a benedictory verse that extols the gurus of the tradition, [2] the text prescribes the modes of worship of Rama.
He also gave the Ramananda Sampradaya its second commentary on Prasthanatrayi in Sanskrit, the first being the Ānandabhāṣyam, composed by Ramananda himself. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] Rambhadracharya's commentary in Sanskrit on the Prasthanatrayi was the first written in almost 500 years.