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Jagadguru Swami Ramananda (IAST: Rāmānanda) or Ramanandacharya was an Indian 14th-century Hindu Vaishnava devotional poet saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India. [3] The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder [ 2 ] of the Ramanandi Sampradaya , the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.
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.
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] Ramanand Swami was the founder and head of the Uddhava Sampradaya. [1]
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya [α] [4] (born Pandit Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) [β] is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. [5]
Ramananda's guru Raghavananda is described as an egalitarian guru who taught students of all castes. Ramananda himself is described as an avatar of Rama, a humble student with great yogic talents. Munsi Ram Sharma says that more than 500 disciples of Ramananda who lives with him in Varanasi. [25] It is said that propagator of Ramanadi tradition ...
Medieval era texts, such as the Bhaktamal suggest that Ravidas was the disciple of the Brahmin bhakti-poet Ramananda. [10] [11] He is traditionally considered as Kabir's younger contemporary. [1] However, the medieval text Ratnavali says Ravidas gained his spiritual knowledge from Ramananda and was a follower of the Ramanandi Sampradaya tradition.
Jagadguru, literally meaning "guru of the universe", is a title used in Sanātana Dharma.Traditionally, it has been bestowed upon or used for ācāryas belonging to the Vedānta school (among the six traditional schools of thought in Hinduism) who have written Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī (literally, 'the three sources') – the Brahma sūtras (the original scripture of ...
Rambola Dubey (Hindi pronunciation: [rɑːməboːlɑː d̪ubeː]; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623 [1]), known as Tulsidas (Sanskrit pronunciation: [tʊlsiːdaːsaː]), [2] was a Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.