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Shri Guru Charitra begins with the story of a character called Naamdharak, who is a personification of a common man, buried with mundane burdens. Naamdharak is troubled with the worldly pains and sets out in search of a Guru for some spiritual guidance.
Saraswati Gangadhar (16th century) wrote Shri GuruCharitra, a book on the life of Narasimha Saraswati who is considered to be the second avatar of Dattatreya. Nothing much is known about Gangadhar's life other than through the Shri GuruCharitra. Guru-Charitra means "Guru's Life Story" or "Guru's Biography".
Shri Swami Samarth Maharaj (Marathi: श्री स्वामी समर्थ) also known as Swami of Akkalkot [4] was an Indian Hindu spiritual master of the Dattatreya Tradition. He lived during the nineteenth century from 1858 to 1878 [ citation needed ] and is a known spiritual figure in various Indian states including Karnataka and ...
Shri Narasimha Saraswati [3] (birth name - Shaligramadeva or Narhari) lived from 1378 to 1459 (Shaka 1300 to Shaka 1380). [4] Saraswati was born into a Deshastha Brahmin family in Karanjapura, modern-day Lad-Karanja (Karanja) in the Washim district, which is a part of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. [5]
Ekkirala Bharadwaj (30 October 1938 – 12 April 1989), was an Indian Dattatreya incarnation and who authored many Hindu spiritual books, primarily on the life and worship of Shirdi Sai Baba and Sri Dattatreya.
Shivlilamrut is a devotional poem composed by the Marathi poet-saint Shridhar Swami Nazarekar. [1] [2] It was composed in 1718 AD (Hindu calendar 1640). Shridhar Swami wrote it on the banks of the river Brahma Kamandalu in Baramati in the vicinity of the Kashi Vishveshwar temple. It literally means "The Nectar of Shiva's Play". [3]
The text is the oldest surviving literary work in the Marathi language, one that inspired major Bhakti movement saint-poets such as Eknath and Tukaram of the Varkari tradition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Dnyaneshwari interprets the Bhagavad Gita in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. [ 5 ]
Hence, for women to gain knowledge of the book, he wrote The Saptashati Gurucharitra Saar, a short version of the Gurucharitra. He took sanyas thirteen days after his wife's death in 1891, at the banks of the River Godavari, when a Sanyasi appeared from across the river and administered the vows of sanyas.