Devotional

INTRODUCTION : As per Ramayana, Sumantra was the chief minister of King Dasharatha, and also his most favorite person. He was a well-wisher of the Dasharatha family, and participated in all the family functions. He was treated as a family member by Dasharatha, due to his good qualities and kindness. Sumantra is considered as one of the important characters of Ramayana. He also provided sufficient guidance to the king Dasharatha towards administering his kingdom in a proper manner. He has discharged his duties in an efficient and eminent manner. He was a capable person and contains great w..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Narayana Teertha (1650–1745) was a Vaishnavite saint and an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna and composed and sung many songs on him.Narayana was born in a village at Andhra Pradesh to a pious Hindu family. He was an intelligent student and quickly grasped all the subjects. He contains very good qualities such as not hurting others by words, and always moved with others in a polite and kind manner. He got the habit of never finding out fault with others, and contains the thoughts about Lord Krishna only in his mind, and he followed it throughout in his life. His birth nam..

INTRODUCTION : Neela Devi is one of the consorts of Lord  Vishnu among Sri Devi and Bhu Devi. But she is also given equal status similar to Lord Vishnu’s two other consorts. Her Mantra is very famous, and by reciting the mantra, we would be relieved from all sorts of difficulties and diseases which we are facing in our daily life. “AUM MAHA – DHEVYAI CHA VIDMAHEVISHNU-PATHNYAI CHA DHIMAHEETHANNO NEELA PRACHODAYATH”In the Vaikunta, Sri Devi is seated to the left of the Lord and Bhu Devi and Nila Devi to his right side. All the three consorts of Lord Vishnu are the forms of Mata L..

INTRODUCTION : Arulmigu Adhiparasakthi Temple is situated at Melmaruvathur, Tamilnadu. In the Melmaruvathur Adiparashakti Siddhar Peetam, the divine mother Adhi para sakthi had given great spiritual powers to Sri Arulthiru Bangaru Adigalar, and through that lot of welfare activities are taking place at this temple.In 1966, people began to worship the Swayambu (self-emanated) form of Adhi Parasakthi, and built a small hut in order to cover the Swayambu Amman and conducted regular Pujas to it.This place is known as Siddhar Peetam. In the year 1977, the idol of Mother Adhi para sakthi was in..

INTRODUCTION : Shivalingavva Akka (20th century) was a great saint and a holy lady. Shivalingavva Akka was born and brought up in the Jat village, New Delhi. Due to her great thirst in spirituality, she has become a saint, and she was the disciple of Sri.Bhausaheb Maharaj.  Due to her good qualities, she was appreciated by her Guru and she was considered by him as a divine incarnation of Mata Parvati.  She sincerely practised yoga and meditation, and attained spiritual enlightenment. According to her, the purpose of taking the human life is to serve the god and his dev..

INTRODUCTION : Isaki Swami (20th century) is considered as a great Saint and Siddhar who lived in Thiruvannamalai. He was born in the district of Tirunelveli.  He came to Thiruvannamalai to worship the Lord, but after some time, he was attracted with the divine beauty of Lord Arunachala and Unnamalaiamman and permanently stayed at Thiruvannamalai and lived his life by taking alms. Though he was married, he got separated from his family, since he was very much interested in spirituality. He was good at meditation and yoga, and through that, he got great spiritual powers, and reli..

INTRODUCTION: Bhakt Prahalad is considered as an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, and he is praised for his great bhakti similar to Narada, Dhuruva and other Bhagavathas. He was born in the Krita Yuga also known as Satya Yuga to the demon king, Hiranya Kasipu, and later his father was killed by Lord Narasimha, and he was crowned by Lord Brahma himself and became a king of the entire world. He ruled his kingdom in a proper manner, and done lot of welfare activities for the people, and provided Lord Vishnu’s holy prasad to his people on a daily basis, and developed the “VISHNU BHAKTI SPI..

INTRODUCTION :Worshiping the gods and goddesses forms a part and parcel of our life. Without praying to the god, we cannot keep our feeling and difficulties within ourselves. Hence prayer is a must for each and every person belonging to different religions also. We are living our life happily or sorrowfully based on our past birth karmas. Though we cannot entirely remove our sins by worshiping the god, at least we would be able to get the courage and strength in our mind and body, and we would be able to withstand in our life without much difficulty. We would feel a sense of satisfaction, that..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Ramanuja who was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, once while he was travelling to Melkote at Karnataka, Lord Vishnu, in his dream had appeared and told to him that the utsava-murti  of Sri Cheluva Narayana in Melkote, was stolen by the Moguls, and it was kept in Delhi. Sri Ramanuja immediately went to the palace of sultan and requested him to return the deity. The sultan told to him, that the deity was safely kept by the princess, and in order to test the powers of Ramanuja, he further told to him, that if he wanted to take the deity, the deity must automatically ..

INTRODUCTION : Gandhari plays an important role in the Mahabharata. She was a princess of Gandhara and the wife of Dhritrashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura, and the mother of the Kauravas. She was well known for her chastity, purity and holiness, and praised as a pious woman among the three worlds in the heaven as well as in the earth.She acts as an example for others, which in this modern day life, we can’t even imagine such a great sacrifice which she has done that after marrying the blind king Dhristrashtra, she also remained as a blind woman by tying her eyes in a cloth in order to..