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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.
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.
[2] 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.
In the Vaishnava Matabja Bhaskara, Ramananda has answered the 10 most prominent questions related to Vaishnavism. Its primary focus is worship of Rama along with Sita and Lakshmana . [ 2 ] The text mentions that one's devotion should be like flowing oil which means consistent or unbreakable. [ 3 ]
Ramananda Sengupta (8 May 1916 – 23 August 2017) was an Indian cinematographer. [1] He was born in Dhaka in 1916 and became a centenarian in 2016. [2] [3] Sengupta stood behind the lens in more than 70 films. His work in cinematography began in 1938 when he joined as an apprentice at the Aurora Film Corporation in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
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.
Chatterjee was born in a middle class Bengali Hindu Brahmin family, the third child to Srinath Chattopadhyay and Harasundari Devi in the village of Pathakpara in the district of Bankura.
[2] He emerged from the mouth of Brahma when the creator deity yawned. He assisted Rama, the 7th avatar of Vishnu in his quest to save his wife Sita from the rakshasa king Ravana. [3] In the Ramayana, he helps Hanuman realise his potential, just before his famous leap over to the island of Lanka. [3]