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Sree Narayana Guru Biography Pdf Sree narayana guru biography pdf Continue Indian Spiritual Leader and Social Reformer For the 1986 Indian Malayalam film, see Sree Narayana Guru (film). Narayana GuruSri Narayana GuruPersonalDion (1855-08-28)28 August 1855Himpageanti, Travankor, British India (now Kerala, India)Died20 September 1928 (1928-09-20) (aged 73) Travancore (now Kerala, India)ReligionHinduism Known forSocial Reforms in KeralaRelativesMadan Asan (father)Kuttiyamma (mother)PhilosophyOne Casta, One Religion, One God for All Narayana Guru (August 28, 1855 - September 20, 1928) was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He was born into a family belonging to the Ejava caste. He led a reform movement against injustice in Kerala's caste society to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality. [1] Biography Narayana Guru at the age of sixty This article is part of a series onReformation in Kerala Background Caste system in Kerala Untouchability Hindu reforms Varna Notable people Ayya Vaikundar Ayyavu Swamikal Chattampi Swamikal Narayana Guru Ayyankali Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker Sahodaran Ayyappan Ayyathan Gopalan Vagbhatananda Brahmananda Sivayogi Pandit Karuppan T. K. Madhavan Mannathu Padmanabhan Mosa Walsalam Sastriyar V. T. Bhattathiripad Swadeshabhimani Chempakaraman Pillai G. P. Pillai Padmanabhan Palpu Kumaranasan C. V. Kunhiraman C. V. Raman Pillai Kuriakose Elias Chavara E. M. S. Nambodiripad Waqcom Mulavi Sayyid Sanaullah Tangalla Other Channar Lahal Consecration in Aravipuram S. N. D. P. N. S. S. Vaikom Satyagraham Guruvayur Satyagraham Channar Rebellion Temple Entry Proclamation vte Excerpts from Anukambadasakam Is the reality that manages the chariot proclaiming the Highest Truth (Lord Krishna), or The Ocean of Compassion and Patience (Buddha), or Guru, who wrote a clear bhashyas (comments) Is he the Almighty, appearing in human form or righteousness, manifested in the divine human form or the holy Son of God (Jesus Christ) or the merciful (prophet) Nabi, a pearl, a pearl? Narayana Guru, born Nanu, was born on August 28, 1855, in the village of Chempajanti near Tiruvanantapuram, in the former state of Travankor, in British India. (quote needed) His early education was in a gurukul manner under Chempazhanthi Mutha Pillai, during which his mother died when he was 15. At the age of 21, he went to central Travankor to learn from Roman Pillay Asan, a Sanskrit scholar who taught him Vedas, Upanishad, literature and the logical rhetoric of Sanskrit. He returned to his village in 1881, when his father was seriously ill, and started a village school where he taught local children who brought him the name Nanu Asan. A year later he married Kaliamma, but disassociated himself from marriage to begin her social life as a social reformer. Leaving the house, the Guru traveled to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and it was during these journeys that he met Chattampi Swamikal, a social and religious reformer who introduced the Guru to Ayawa Swamikal, from whom he learned meditation and yoga. He later continued his travels until he reached the Pillathadam Cave in Marutwamal, where he created a hermit and practiced meditation and yoga for the next eight years. In 1888, he visited Aravipuram, where he meditated for a while and during his stay there consecrated a piece of rock taken from the river, like the idol of Shiva, who has since become the temple of Arugippurama Shiva. The act, which later came to be known as Aruvipuram Pratishta, created a social commotion among the upper brahmins caste who doubted Guru's right to consecrate the idol. His response to them: It is not Brahmin Shiva, but the yejava Shiva later became a famous quote used against castism. It was here that Padmanabhan Palpu, better known as Dr. Palpu, was founded by Sri Narayana Dharma Paribasana Yogam, whose president was Narayana Guru, on May 15, 1903. The guru moved his base to Sivagiri, near Varkala, in 1904, where he opened a school for lower-level children and provided them with free education without considering their caste. However, it took him seven years to build a temple there, Sarada Mutt was built in 1912. He also built temples in other places such as Trisur, Kannur, Anchuthengu, Thalaseri, Kozhikode and Mangalore, and he took it to many places including Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), where he made his last visit in 1926. Upon his return to India, he participated in a number of activities, including planning for the Sivagiri pilgrimage, which was planned after his visit to Pallaturuti in 1927 to attend the anniversary of S.N.D.P. Yogam. Shortly after the meeting in Pallaturati, which was the last public function he attended, the Guru fell ill and was treated in places such as Aluwa, Trisur, Palakkad and finally in Chennai; Doctors present at it included Ayurvedic doctors like Cholayil Mami Vaidyar, Panappally Krishnan Vaidyar and Thycauttu Divakaran Moos, as well as allopathic viz doctors. Krishnan Tampa, Panikker, Palpu and a European doctor named Noble. he returned to Sarada Mutt, and it was here that he died on 20 September 1928 at the age of 73. (quote necessary) Legacy Fighting Castism practiced in Kerala during the 19th and early 20th centuries and lower caste people such as Ezhavas and untouchable castes like Paraiyars, tribes and Pulayars had to suffer discrimination from upper caste people as Brahmans. It was against this discrimination that the Guru committed his first major public act, citation necessary for the consecration of The Idol of Siwa in Aravipuram in 1888. In all, he consecrated forty-five temples in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. His initiations were not necessarily ordinary deities; The slab with the inscription Truth, Ethics, Compassion, Love, a vegetarian Shiva, a mirror and a sculpture of an Italian sculptor were among the various consecrations made by him. Waik Satyagraha Social protest by Waik Satyagrahi was a agitation of the lower caste against untouchability in the Hindu society of Travankor. It was reported that the trigger for the protest was an incident when Narayana Guru was stopped on the road leading to the Temple of Waik, by a man from the upper caste. This prompted Kumaran Asan and Mulur S. Padmanabha Paneir, both of the Guru's disciples, to write poems in protest of the incident. T. K. Madhawan, another pupil, appealed to the People's Assembly of Sri Mulama in 1918 for the right to enter the temple and worship, regardless of caste. Lots of people, including K. Kelappan and K. Kesau Menon, formed a committee and declared the movement Kerala Pariatanam and with the support of Mahatma Gandhi, the agitation turned into a mass movement that led to the opening of the temple, as well as three roads leading to it for people of all castes. The protest also influenced the Proclamation of entry into the Temple in 1936. The Sivagiri Sivagiri Pilgrimage was conceived by three students of the Visa Guru. Wallabhasssari Govindan Vaidyar, T.K. Kittan writer and Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker, which the Guru endorsed in 1928, with their own recommendations. He suggested that the purpose of the pilgrimage should be to promote education, purity, devotion to God, organization, agriculture, trade, crafts and technical training, and advised Vaidyar and the Writer to organize a series of lectures on these topics to emphasize the need to practice these ideals, stating that this is the primary purpose of the Siwagiri pilgrimage. However, his death soon after delayed the project until 1932, when the first pilgrimage from Elavumtitta to the Pathanamtitta area was undertaken. The Guru has published 45 works in Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tamil, which include Atmodades zatakam, a hundred poems of a spiritual poem and Daivu Dasakam, a universal prayer in ten verses. He also translated three main texts: Tirukulal Walluwara, Ishavasia Upanishad and Enlivened Odukam by Kannadaya Wallalaar. It was he who spread the motto, Caste, one religion, one God for all (Oru Jati, Oru Matam, Oru Daiwam, Manusyanu), which has become popular as a saying in Kerala. He lived through Adi Sankara's non-dialogue philosophy, bringing it to practice, adding notions of social equality and universal brotherhood. In 1923, in Alwaye Advaita Ashram, the Conference of All Religions organized the Conference of All Regions, which was reported to be the first such event in India. It was an attempt to counter the religious appeals to which the Yegawa community was receptive, and at the entrance to the conference he organized a message that said, We meet here not to argue and win, but to know and be known. Since then, the conference has become an annual event that is organized annually in the Ashram. Famous disciples of Bodhananda Swamikal Nataraja Guru Kumaran Asan (Sahodaran Ayappan) T. K. Madhavan (K. W. Kunhiraman) Padmanabhan Palpu Mulur S. Padmanabha Panicker Velutheri Kesavan Vaidyar Public recognition, honors and veneration narayana Guru 1967 stamp India ₹5 Coin In 1916, Ramana Maharshi hosted Narayana Guru in his Tiruvannamalai ashram when the Guru returned from a trip to Kanchepuram, where Swami Godanvinanda , a pupil of Guru , created by Sree Narayana Seva Ashram. Rabindranath Tagore met Narayana Guru in the last ashram in Sivagiri in November 1922. Tagore later said of Narayana Guru: I have never come across someone who is spiritually larger than Swami Narayana Guru or a man who is on a par with him in spiritual achievement. Three years later, Mahatma Gandhi visited the Guru during his trip to Kerala in 1925 to take part in Waikoma Satyagrah, after which the leader of the Indian independence movement declared that it was a great privilege in his life to have a darshan respected sage like Sri Narayana Guru. Narayana Guru was immortalized on an Indian postage stamp on August 21, 1967. Another commemorative stamp on it was released by Sri Lanka Post on September 4, 2009.
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