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Chokhamela ( [ need quotation to verify], which was considered that time one of the low castes in India. Chokhamela lived with his wife Soyarabai and son • • :84 • Chokhamela was initiated into Later, he moved to While working on construction of a wall in Mangalvedha, near Pandharpur, the wall fell down, crushing some workers. Chokha was one of them. His tomb is in front of the Vitthal temple, Pandharpur, where it can be seen to this day. According to a legend the bones of the dead Chokhamela were still chanting Vitthal , Vitthal, apparently yearning to visit the Vitthal temple. The bones were buried at the footsteps of the Vitthal temple. In early 20th century, the Books [ ] • On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela, translated from the Marathi by Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. • The Untouchables: Who are They and Why They Became Untouchables to the memory of Chokhamela, • One Hundred Poems of Chokha Mela, translated from Marathi by Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre. • The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History by References [ ] • NewsClick. 16 November 2019 . Retrieved 4 December 2022. • Mintlounge. 20 October 2017 . Retrieved 4 December 2022. • • ^ a b ael; Deliège, Robert (eds.). From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity and Politics in Early and Modern India. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. pp.76–85. 978-8763507752. • ^ a b c Harrisson, Tom (1976). Living Through the Blitz. Cambridge University Press. p. 9780002160094. • Prasad, Amar N...

मूळ नाव : नामदेव जन्म : इ.स. २६ ऑक्टोबर १२७०, नरसी-बामणी, हिंगोली, महाराष्ट्र निर्वाण : जुलै ३, इ.स. १३५० गुरू : विसोबा खेचर समाधिमंदिर : पंढरपूर उपास्यदैवत : विठ्ठल भाषा : मराठी भाषा साहित्यरचना : नामदेवांची गाथा, अभंग वडील : दामाशेटी आई : गोणाई विशेष माहिती : पत्नी राजाई, मोठी बहीण आऊबाई नारा, विठा, गोंदा, महादा हे त्यांचे चार पुत्र व एक मुलगी लिंबाई संत नामदेव (इ.स. १२७० - जुलै ३, इ.स. १३५०) हे महाराष्ट्रातील वारकरी संतकवी होते. ते मराठी भाषेमधील सर्वाधिक जुन्या काळातील कवींपैकी एक होते. त्यांनी पंजाबी व हिंदुस्तानी भाषांमध्येही काव्ये रचली. शिखांच्या गुरू ग्रंथसाहिबात त्यांच्या बासष्ट काव्यरचना समाविष्ट आहेत. संत नामदेव हे मराठी तील पहिले चरित्रकार व आत्मचरित्रकार आणि कीर्तना च्या माध्यमातून भागवत धर्म पंजाबपर्यंत नेणारे आद्य प्रचारक होते. दामाशेटी हे संत नामदेव यांचे वडील व गोणाई त्यांची माता होती. दामाशेटींचा व्यवसाय कपडे शिवणे हा होता. संत नामदेव यांची पत्नी राजाई, मोठी बहीण आऊबाई; नारा, विठा, गोंदा, महादा हे त्यांचे चार पुत्र व एक मुलगी लिंबाई असा त्यांचा परिवार होता. स्वत:ला संत नामदेव यांची दासी असे म्हणणाऱ्या अगदी लहानपणापासूनच संत नामदेव विठ्ठलमय झाले होते. त्यांनी लहानपणापासूनच श्रीविठ्ठलाची अनन्यसाधारण भक्ती केली. विठ्ठलाशी ते संवाद साधत. या बालभक्ताच्या हट्टापायी विठ्ठलाने नैवेद्य ( संत नामदेव उत्तर भारतात गेले असल्याची प्रमाणे अनेक प्रकारे मिळतात.विशेषतःपंजाबातील त्यांच्या वास्तव्याची व कार्याची जाणीव आजही ठळकपणे मिळते. ‘नामदेवजीकी मुखबानी’ म्हणून प्रसिद्ध असलेली संत नामदेव यांची हिंदी भाषेतील ६१ पदे शिखांच्या ग्रंथसाहिबात अंतर्भूत आहेत.त्यांतील ३ विवक्षित ...

2.3 Related Sant Namdev Biography Sant Namdev Image Full Name/Cast/Surname Namdev Damaji Relekar/ he was born in a Shudra Caste Born/Birth Place c. 26 October 1270CE Narsi, Bamani Died/Death Place c. 3 July 1350CE Pandharpur Religion Philosophy Namdev, also known as Nam Dayv, Namdeo, and Namadeva, was an Indian poet and saint from Narsi, Hingoli, Maharashtra, India, who lived from c. 26 October 1270 to c. 3 July 1350. He belonged to the Varkari tradition of Hinduism. He lived as a devotee of Pandharpur’s Lord Vitthal (Krishna). Life Namdev’s life is shrouded in mystery. Many miracle-filled hagiographies have been written about him decades after his death. These biographies are inconsistent and conflicting, according to scholars. Namdev was a Great Devotee of and influenced by: Vaishnavism influenced Namdev, and he became well-known in India for his religious hymns set to music (bhajan-kirtans). Namdev was a great devotee of lord Vitthal also called as Vithoba (one of the forms of Hindu God Krishna) With monistic themes, his theory incorporates both nirguna and saguna Brahman aspects. Namdev’s legacy, along with those of other gurus, is remembered in current times in the Varkari tradition, with large crowds of people travelling together in biannual pilgrimages to Pandharpur in south Maharashtra. He is also revered by the Dadu Panthis, Kabir Panthis, and Sikhs in North Indian traditions. Work Namdev’s literary works were influenced by Vaishnava philosophy and Vithoba religio...

A COMPLETE LIST OF SAINTS AND TEACHERS OF BHAKTI MOVEMENT Introduction Bhakti Movement in Hinduism, emphasized upon the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee. The Movement arose in South India in the 7th to 10th centuries in poems that the Alvars and the Nayanars composed in Tamil to the gods Vishnu and Shiva, respectively. Then it started spreading northwards. The Word Bhakti It is derived from the Sanskrit root word Bhaja whose literal meaning is ‘to utter’. But the inner significance of the word Bhaja is ‘to adore’ or ‘to love with honour’. In the devotional literature the word is used to mean ‘unquestionable faith and utter devotion to God’. Thus in a general sense Bhakti means devotion to God. Causes for rise of Bhakti Movement The genesis of the Bhakti movement lies in the social evils prevalent in the-then Hindu society. Hindu society was full of many social anomalies like rigidity of caste system, irrelevant rituals and religious practices, blind faiths and social dogmas. The society also suffered from polytheism, segregation, severe economic disparity due to casteism, untouchability etc. The Bhakti movement began with the aim of reforming Hinduism. • The rigid caste system in Hinduism had created discontent among the Hindus. People from the lower caste were looked upon as untouchables and were oppressed by the upper caste. • Many meaningless and expensive rituals started being practiced in Hi...

NAMDEV NAMDEV (1270-1350), saint of Maharashtra who composed poetry of fervent devotion in Marathi as well as in Hindi. His Hindi verse and his extended visit to the Punjab carried his fame far beyond the borders of Maharashtra. Sixty-one of his hymns in fact came to be included in Sikh Scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib. These hymns or sabdas share the common characteristic of lauding the One Supreme God distinct from his earlier verse which carries traces of idolatry and saguna bhakti. In the course of his spiritual quest, Namdev had, from being a worshipper of the Divine in the concrete form, become a devotee of the attribute less (nirguna) Absolute. According to the generally accepted version of the current traditions, Namdev was born in AD 1270 to Damasheti, a low caste tailor, and his wife, Gonabai, in the village of Narasi Vamani, in Satara district of Maharashtra. Janabai, the family`s maidservant and a bhakta and poetess in her own right, records the tradition that Namdev was born to Gonabai as a result other worship of Vitthala in Pandharpur. Namdev was married before he was eleven years of age to Rajabai, daughter of Govindasheti Sadavarte. He had four sons and one daughter. Under the influence of saint Jnanadeva, Namdev was converted to the path of bhakti. Vitthala of Pandharpur was now the object of his devotion and he spent much of his time in worship and kirtan, chanting mostly verses of his own composition.In the company of Jnanadeva and other saints, he roam...

Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts), heard on various community, public radio stations and the web, explores the world of spirituality, comparative religion, world scriptures and other books, East and West, God, meditation, out of body or near death experiences (inner space), the vegan diet and other ahimsa ethics -- education for a more peaceful planet. The Nameless God has been given many names over the centuries. There are countless Divine names used as mantras or sacred words of Remembrance in various schools of spirituality. In Dadu Panth, that sacred name of God at the highest level is Satya-Raam. The name Raam was very frequently mentioned in the hymns of Guru Kabir, Sant Namdev, and other classic Sants of India. Some receive a single Name, others a longer Guru Mantra phrase. Some are given "The Five Names" (panch naam) consisting of five holy names of God. These are revealed at the time of Initiation into Sant Mat or Shabd Yoga meditation. These same five names have been used for centuries in certain branches of Sant Mat connected with Kabir and Sant Dharam Das, Sant Dariya Sahib, Sant Tulsi Sahib, and Sant Radhasoami Sahib. Others have been given five Sufi names of God at the time of Initiation into Surat Shabd Yoga meditation. These five Sufi or Islamic names have the same essential meaning as the five Indian names used in some forms of Sant Mat, and, as with the Indian names, also correspond to five basic inner regions. (In one of the Jewis...

Saint Shiromani Namdev Maharaj (born: 26 October 1270; Sanjeevan Samadhi: 3 July 1350) was a Warkari saint poet from Maharashtra. His last name was Relekar. He was one of the oldest poets in Marathi language. He also composed poems in Vraja languages. The Guru Granth Sahib of the Sikhs was a biographer, autobiographer and the first preacher to take Bhagwat Dharma to Punjab through 'Kirtan'. Therefore, the Punjabi community as well as the concerned community are struggling to develop their birthplace, Narsi Namdev. Narsi Namdev is a village in Hingoli district of Marathwada in Maharashtra. The temple of Saint Namdev Maharaj was renovated in 2019. Bhaktashiromani Saint Namdev passed away during the reign of Saint Dnyaneshwar. He had a reputation for making the real Panduranga move because of his kirtan. Saint Namdev is believed to have been a close associate of Sri Vitthal. Saint Namdev is a great preacher of the Warkari sect and he has achieved emotional unity in that regard all over India. He voluntarily carried the flag of Bhagwat Dharma to Punjab. Damashetti was the father of Saint Namdeo and Gonai was his mother. Damasheti's business was to sew clothes. I mean, he was a tailor. Yadushet, a man of the seventh generation before him, was a devotee of the sattvic tendency. Narsi-Bamni (Narsi Namdev) is the birth village of Saint Namdeo in present day Hingoli district. Namdeo was born in Prabhav Naam year, Shake 1192 (1270) on Kartik Shuddha Ekadashis, Rohini Nakshatras, Sun...

• v • t • e The Vithoba Temple, officially known as Shri Vitthal-Rukmini Mandir ( श्री विठ्ठल्-रूक्मिणि देवुळ् ಶ್ರೀ ವಿಟ್ಟಲ್-ರುಕ್ಮಿಣಿ ಗುಡಿ ), is a Although parts of the temple date to the 12th or 13th century, the existing structure mainly dates to the 17th century or later, and reflects the later Deccan style, with dome motifs and lobed arches. Legend of Pundalik [ ] The saga of Pundalik is one of the most important Mahima legends about Vithoba. How Vithoba came to Pandharpur is a story in which Pundalik is vital. Pundalik is a devoted son to his parents Janudev and Satyavati, who lived in a forest called Dandirvan. But after his wedding, Pundalik begins ill-treating his parents. Tired with their son’s misbehavior and ill treatment, the elderly couple decide to leave for Kashi. Legend holds that people who die in the city of However, the elderly couple are not destined to escape their suffering so easily. Upon hearing his parents' plans, Pundalik and his wife decide to join them on pilgrimage. The ill treatment continues. While the youthful son and his wife ride on horseback, the frail old couple walk in bad weather. Pundalik even makes his old parents work to make his own journey comfortable. Every evening, when the party camps for the night, the son forces his parents to groom the horses and do other jobs. On the way to Kashi, the group reached the ashram (hermitage) of a pious and venerable sage, Kukkutswami. Exhausted, the family decides to spend a few days there. That...