Mahavatar Babaji Early Life and Astonishing Facts: Nagaraj, popularly known and named as Mahavatar Babaji by Lahiri Mahasaya and his other disciples, are believed to have met Babaji between mid-1800s to around 1935. Information from different origins, over a period of time, has purported that Mahavatar Babaji had met “Maharishi Matang”. But the world came […]
Maitreyi Sage Maitreyi, who was she? Sage Maitreyi lived in ancient India during the later Vedic period. She was considered as a great Indian philosopher. However there are two differing accounts of her identity. One account says she was an Advait philosopher and did not marry. The other story is that she was one of
Adi Shankaracharya Jagat Mithya, Brahman Satyam. The world is an illusion, only Brahman or Pure Consciousness or God is the reality. An ideal sanyasi, Adi Shankaracharya, walked this Earth 1200 years ago. A great Hindu philosopher and theologian, he single-handedly structured and reordered a fractured Hindu society and made it into the dynamic and all-encompassing
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Gargi Vachaknavi The great Indian sage Gargi Vachaknavi was one of the earliest symbols of feminism in the world. Born in the 9th to 7th century BCE, in Northern India, near Mithila, she was a natural-born philosopher. She was a renowned exponent of Vedic literature. . Early Life: Born as the daughter of sage Vachaknu,
Neem Karoli Baba Neem Karoli Baba, named as Lakshman Das at his birth, was from Uttar Pradesh in India. Born around 1900 in Akbarpur village, he belonged to a wealthy Brahmin family. Due to the child-marriage customs prevailing in India during that time, his parents married him at an early age of 11. He then
Anandmayi Ma Nirmala Sundari known as Anandmayi Ma was a great Indian saint of the nineteenth century. The name Anandmayi was given to her by her followers to describe the perpetual state of divine joy she used to be in. Paramhansa Yogananda translates Anandamayi as ‘Joy Permeated’. The young Anandmayi: Anandmayi’s parents were Bipinbihari Bhattacharya
Gorakhnath Baba Gorakhnath Baba, Navnath: Since ancient times there has been a Nath Parampara in India. This tradition has been considered an important part of Sanatan Dharma. The real gems of this parampara have been the naathis who are 9 in number. They are known as Navnaths. Guru Gorakhnath was one of the prime naths
Meera Bai The devotee beyond comprehension: Mihira, popularly known as “Meera” was a great devotee of Lord Krishna and a Hindu poetess of the 16th century. Born in a royal Rajput family in Rajasthan, she was originally named “Mihira” at her birth; but she introduced herself in the poetic world with the name Meera, gaining
Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda: Popularly known as Swami Vivekanand, Narendranath Datta was born on the 12th of January 1863. He belonged to an aristocratic, upper-middle-class family in West Bengal. Thoughts and Ideologies: An Indian Hindu monk and a philosopher, he was the chief disciple of an Indian mystic—Ramakrishna. He was a Hindu spiritual leader and
Ghosha She was a female Indian Yogini, philosopher and seer. Her legends are eminent in the ancient Vedic period scriptures. She suffered from a skin ailment when she was very young, which led to her disfiguration. Due to this, she had to stay a maiden for a long time. Later when her ailment was cured,