| Bhagwan Swaminarayan |
Bhagwan
Swaminarayan (April 2, 1781 - 1830) was
born Ganshyam Pande to a brahmin family in the
village of Chhapaiya, Uttar Pradesh, India. His
father's name was Hariprasad Pande (also known
as Dharmadev) and his mother's name was Premvati
(also known as Bhaktimata). He had two brothers,
Rampratapji Pande, the older brother, and Icharamji
Pande, the younger brother. After serving his
parents, he left home at the age of 11 to travel
over 8,000 miles throughout India on a holy pilgrimage
for 7 years, 1 month, and 11 days. During his
travles, Ghanshyam was given the name Neelkanth
Varni for his fearless acts against nature's most
ferocious animals. He eventually settled in Gujarat.
At age 21, he was given the headship of a religious
sect known as Uddhav Sampradaay (later known as
Swaminarayan Sampraday), with the blessings of
his Guru Sadguru Ramanand Swami. He later became
known as Bhagwan Swaminarayan after the mantra
he taught. Bhagwan Swaminarayan was known by many
names such as Shreeji Maharaj, Shri Hari and Sahajanand
Swami.
He established temples at: Ahmedabad, Bhuj, Muli,
Vadtal, Junagadh, Dholera, Dholka, Gadhpur &
Jetalpur – installing images of various
manifestations of God, such as Nar Narayan Dev,
Laxmi Narayan Dev, Radha Krishna, Radha Raman,
Revti Baldevji, etc. Shreeji Maharaj made Gadhpur
his home, in recognition of the exceptional devoted
love from Dada Khachar, one of his most devoted
disciples.
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| Ramakrishna
param hansa |
As a priest of the
Kali temple at Dakshineswar he worshipped the Deity
with such intensity that She revealed Herself to him
and became his constant companion. He could talk, play
and joke with Her. He then practised not only the different
spiritual streams of Hinduism, like Vaishnavism and
Tantrism, but also other religions like Christianity
and Islam. He was able to revalidate by his personal
experience the Rig Vedic declaration, 'Truth is One,
the wise speak of It variously.' He became the prophet
of harmony of religions.
Great scholars and savants sat at his feet and imbibed
the grand spiritual truths he explained in an astonishingly
simple way. The parables he narrated with scintillating
humour are guidelines to all spiritual aspirants. He
specially trained a band of young men who renounced
the world, and after his passing away in August 16,
1886, formed the monastic Order, viz. Ramakrishna Math
& Ramakrishna Mission.
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| Vivekananda |
A
spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power,
Vivekananda crammed immense labor and achievement
into his short life, 1863-1902. Born in the Datta
family of Calcutta, the youthful Vivekananda embraced
the agnostic philosophies of the Western mind
along with the worship of science.
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| Osho Rajneesh |
December 11,1931:
Osho is born in Kuchwada, a small village in the
state of Madhya Pradesh, central India.
He is the eldest of eleven children of a Jaina
cloth merchant. Stories of His early years describe
Him as independent and rebellious as a child,
questioning all social, religious and philosophical
beliefs. As a youth He experiments with meditation
techniques.
March 21, 1953: \o becomes enlightened at the
age of twenty-one, while majoring in philosophy
at D.N. Jain college in Jabalpur.
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| Sri Sri Daya Mata |
Sri Sri Daya Mata
is the foremost living disciple of Paramahansa
Yogananda. A true "Mother of Compassion,"
as her name signifies, she has inspired those
of all faiths and from all walks of life with
the wisdom and great love of God conveyed through
her talks, writings, and recordings. Referring
to her first volume of spiritual counsel, Only
Love, the former Ambassador of India to the United
States, N. A. Palkhivala, wrote: "Sri Daya
Mata personifies love and compassion and the other
timeless values of Indian culture….Her speeches
are not dry academic dissertations on abstract
theological principles, but intensely personal
hymns testifying to her ecstatic vision of the
Creator."
Daya Mataji entered Paramahansa
Yogananda's ashram in Los Angeles in 1931. From
the beginning it was evident that Paramahansaji
had singled her out for a special role. He later
told her that he had given to her the same intense
spiritual discipline that his guru, Swami Sri
Yukteswar, had given to him - a significant remark,
since she was to inherit the spiritual and organizational
mantle that Sri Yukteswar had bestowed on him.
The great Guru's life came to a close in 1952.
In 1955, succeeding the late, saintly Rajarsi
Janakananda, Sri Daya Mata became president of
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization
Fellowship. As spiritual successor to Sri Sri
Paramahansa Yogananda, she sees to the guidance
of YSS/SRF members, the training of monastic disciples
who reside in the Yogoda /Self-Realization ashrams,
and the faithful carrying out of Paramahansa Yogananda's
ideals and wishes for the dissemination of his
teachings and the expansion of his spiritual and
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| Mother Teresa: Missionary of charity
aided 'poorest of poor' |
| "The Saint
of the Gutters." For Mother Teresa, who devoted
her life to the relief of the sick and the outcast,
earthly sufferers were nothing less than Christ
in "distressing disguise."
From an early age, the girl who would become Mother
Teresa felt the call to help others. Born August
26, 1910, in Skopje (now in the Former Yugoslav
republic of Macedonia), Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
was the dau ghter of Albanian parents -- a grocer
and his wife.
As a public school student she developed a special
interest in overseas missions and, by age 12,
realized her vocation was aiding the poor.
She was inspired to work in India by reports sent
home from Jesuit missionaries in Bengal. And at
18, she left home to join a community of Irish
nuns with a mission in Calcutta. Here, she took
the name "Sister Teresa," after Saint
Teresa of Lisieux, the patroness of missionaries.
She spent 17 years teaching and being principal
of St. Mary's high school in Calcutta. However,
in 1946, her life changed forever.
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| Sri Narayan Maharaj
ji |
I am coming to
the Western countries especially by the mercy
of my siksa-guru, Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami
Maharaja. After taking sannyasa in Sri Kesavaji
Gaudiya Matha, Srila Swami Maharaja came to New
York City in America. From there, in a couple
of years, he preached all over America, in European
countries, Australia and elsewhere. He established
preaching centers in the midst of the ocean –
in Hawaii. He did so in Canada in the mountains,
in forests and so many other places. He translated
many books, like Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Srimad-Bhagavatam,
Krsna Book and others. He did this in a couple
of years by the mercy of Lord Sri Krsna, Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu. They sprinkled
upon him a special power, and thus he preached
very quickly. An ordinary person cannot do what
he did.
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| Sri Sthya Sai Baba |
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I have come to
light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see
that it shines day by day with added luster. I
have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion.
I have not come on a mission of publicity for
a sect or creed or cause, not have I come to collect
followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract
disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold.
I have come to tell you of this unitary faith,
this spiritual principle, this path of love, this
virtue of love, this duty of love, this obligation
of love.
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| A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada |
A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness, was born in
1896, in Calcutta, in a Vaisnava family.
His father, Gour Mohan De, named him Abhay Charan.
His father's only wish was that, Abhay would become
a devotee of Srimati Radharani.
Abhay studied under British colonial rule, finally
going to university to read chemistry. At university,
he became a supporter of Gandhi's movement to
gain independence for India. As a measure of this
support, he would only dress in white handloom
cloth, woven in India and furthermore, he declined
to accept his degree from the university.
Abhay married and went into business as a small
pharmaceutical firm to support his wife and family.
He met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Saraswati Goswami, for the first time in Calcutta
in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, took a liking
to Abhay and told him to devote his life to teaching
Vedic Knowledge; more specifically to preach Lord
Caitanya's message to the English speaking world.
Although, Abhay accepted, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
within his heart as his spiritual master, it was
not until 1932 that he became initiated. He then
received both harinama and mantra diksa at his
initiation.
In 1936 Srila Prabhupada wrote his spiritual master
requesting if there was any particular service
that he could render. Srila Prabhupada received
a reply to that letter containing the same instruction
the he had received in 1922: 'Preach Krishna consciousness
to the English speaking world'. His spiritual
master passed away from this world two weeks later;
thus leaving these final instructions engraved
on Srila Prabhupada's heart. These instructions
were to form the focus of Srila Prabhupada's life.
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| Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi |
| On January 1,
1958, Maharishi formally launched his worldwide
movement. Since then Maharishi has circled the
globe many times, teaching his simple Transcendental
Meditation technique, writing many books, consulting
with leaders of government, including heads of
state, and addressing conferences of the world’s
leading scientists, educators and intellectuals.
In 1961, Maharishi began courses to train teachers
of the Transcendental Meditation program. Today,
the Transcendental Meditation technique is still
taught in the same systematic way through an easy
and enjoyable
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| Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
Born in 1956 in
Papanasam, India, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
studied with many renowned spiritual masters and
became a scholar of Vedic Literature. By the age
of seventeen, he obtained an Advanced Degree in
Modern Physics, and later received an Honorary
Doctorate from Kuvempu University, Karnataka,
India.
In 1982, His Holiness founded the Art of Living
Foundation, which is now the world’s largest
volunteer-based educational and humanitarian organizations.
In 1997, His Holiness founded the International
Association for Human Values (IAHV), which to
date has development projects in 25,300 villages,
bringing self-reliance and sustainability to millions
of people.
The innovative programmes he has devised and the
immense social work he has undertaken stem from
his commitment to a rejuvenation of human values,
a violence-free society and to enable people to
lead happier, healthier, stress-free lives
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| Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev |
Sadhguru Jaggi
Vasudev is a visionary and a humanitarian whose
work transcends all boundaries. The word Guru,
in Sanskrit, means dispeller of darkness, and
Sadh means within. Sadhguru is a profound mystic
and a yogi whose understanding and the mastery
over the science of yoga comes from his inner
experience, rather than any scholarly learning.
His work and life is dedicated to bring physical,
mental and inner well-being for all people, through
the science of yoga.Sadhguru’s offering
to the world is his effort to help a person attain
to his full inherent potential.
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| Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi |
Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi was born on March 21, 1923 to a Christian
family in Chindawara, India. Her parents were
Prasad and Cornelia Salve, direct descendants
of the royal Shalivahana dynasty. Seeing the beauty
of this child who was born with a spotless brilliance,
they called her Nirmala, which means 'Immaculate'.
Later on she came to be known by the multitudes
by the name of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - the
revered Mother who was born with her complete
Self Realization and knew from a very young age
that she had a unique gift which had to be made
available to all mankind.
Her parents played a key role in India's Liberation
Movement from under British rule. Her father,
a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, was a member
of the Constituent Assembly of India and helped
write free India's first constitution. He was
a renowned scholar, master of 14 languages, and
translated the Koran in Marathi. Her mother was
the first woman in India to receive an Honors
Degree in Mathematics.
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| Sri Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda |
Sri Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January
5, 1893, in the holy city of Gorakhpur, Uttar
Pradesh. From his earliest years, it was clear
that his life was marked for a divine destiny.
According to those closest to him, even as a child
the depth of his awareness and experience of the
spiritual was far beyond the ordinary. In his
youth he sought out sages and saints, hoping to
find an enlightened guru.
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It was in 1910, at the age of seventeen, that
he met and became a disciple of the revered sage
Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. Sri Yukteswarji
was one of a line of exalted gurus, with whom
Yoganandaji had been linked from birth: Sri Yogananda's
parents were disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya, guru
of Sri Yukteswarji. When Yoganandaji was an infant
in his mother's arms, Lahiri Mahasaya, had blessed
him and foretold: "Little mother, thy son
will be a yogi. As a spiritual engine, he will
carry many souls to God's kingdom." Lahiri
Mahasaya was a disciple of Mahavatar Babaji, the
deathless master who revived in this age the ancient
science of Kriya Yoga. Mahavatar Babaji, then
revealed the sacred Kriya to Lahiri Mahasaya,
who handed it down to Sri Yukteswarji, who taught
it to Paramahansa Yogananda.
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