India! Her Glorious Spiritual Heritage!!

Jai Jai Raghuveer Samarth Samarth Swami Ramdas was a  glorious patriot sage during 17th century Maharashtra. He was the  magnificent spiritual power behind  Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the powerful Maratha empire which resisted the onslaughts of the Mughal empire. The birth name of Samarth Swami Ramdas was Narayan Suryaji Thosar. He was born on Ramnavami (in the month of Chaitra) in 1608, in Jamb village, Ambad taluk, Jalna district of Maharashtra on the banks of the river Godavari.  During childhood, Narayan was fond of vigorous physical activity. He loved to exercise and was well built and intelligent. He felt compassion for the common people. From his childhood itself, he was thinking about how to relieve the masses of their misery. Marriage and family were not his priorities, preferring the life of a monk. His persona shone with devotion for Hanumanji and Lord Rama.  He had Darshan of Lord Rama even when he was a boy. Lord...

Om Namo Bhagawate Sri Ramakrishnaya Mother India was undergoing an extremely depressing phase during the middle of the 19th century. She was severely strained under more than 1,000 years of foreign invasions. Every possible attempt was made by the Mughal, British and many other foreign rulers to somehow destroy the great religion of the ancient land. Hinduism was crumbling and had got reduced to a mass of superstitions. The great religion of the Rishis was in real danger of extinction, as had happened with other ancient cultures all over the world. The few reformers who tried to set things right were made to believe that Hinduism itself was to be blamed for all the ills plaguing the society. They started opposing various Hindu practices, particularly the concept of various Gods, and of praying to God with form. They were especially against idol worship. In this way they were inadvertently playing into the hands of the marauding conquerors. At this critical junction in the hi...