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ramana maharshi
 
 
A world-renowned guru, Ramana Maharshi was born in 1879 near Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He belonged to a...
saint arunagirinathar
 
 
1e40 T he holy land of India had given to the world many great saints and sages who have shown t...
baba sheikh farid shakarganj
 
 
B aba Sheikh Farid Shakarganj was a great saint of India. He was a pioneer of the modern Punjabi cu...
guru amardas ji
 
 
A mardas Ji became the Sikh Guru in 1552 when he was in his seventies. He was born in 1479 at villa...
guru ramdas ji
 
 
I he founder of the city of Amritsar, Guru Ramdas Ji is the Chauthi Patshahi or the fourth Guru o...
meher baba
 
 
A n advocate of universal love and devotion, Meher Baba was born on February 25,1894, in Pune, Maha...
ramanuja
 
 
S ri Ramanujacharya who lived between 1017 and 1137 was one of the foremost exponents of the Vishis...
shri amrender muni ji
 
 
S hri Amrender Muni ji was born in 1948 in Delhi . He became a wanderer at a very young age and sta...
shri yogendra
 
 
T he founder of the Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz Mumbai, Shri Yogendra was born on November 18, 189...
swami nand lal ji
 
 
S wami Nand Lal Ji was born in 1902 at Gurgari Mohalla, Zaina Kadal, Srinagar. He belonged to an af...
tukaram
 
 
T ukaram was born in 1608, in the small village of Dehu in the West Indian state of Maharashtra to ...
vidyaranya
 
 
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shankaracharya
 
 
S hankaracharya was the Indian philosopher in the 8th century AD, who founded Advaita (non-dualisti...
sitadevi
 
 
O n May 1, 2001 falls Sita Navami–the day when the Earth Goddess gave birth to Srimati Sita-d...
swami ramanand
 
 
S wami Ramanand is considered as a pioneer of the great Bhakti Movement in North India . He was a f...
mahamandaleshwar
 
 
M ahamandaleshwar Santoshi Mataji was born in 1962 at Dehradun, the outskirts of the Himalayas. Her...
mata amritanandmayi
 
 
M ata Amritanandmayi was born in 1953 in the village of Parayakadavu in Kerala. From the age of aro...
namdev
 
 
A famous medieval saint, Namdev was born in 1270 in a low caste tailor family in Maharashtra. When...
satguru sivaya subramuniyaswami
 
 
F or more than five decades, Satguru Sivya Subramanyaswami, popularly known as Gurudeva, worked rel...
yajnavalkya
 
 
1f47 T he name of Yajnavalkya of Mithila stands distinguished both in the Srutis and in the Smri...
chinmoy kumar
 
 
S aint Chinmoy Kumar Ghose was born in the small village of Shakpura in East Bengal (now Bangladesh...
shree narayana guru
 
 
T he greatest social reformer of Kerala, Shri Narayana Guru was born in 1854 in Kerala in a well ed...
shri swami swaroopanand
 
 
A medial graduate with a brilliant academic record, Param Pujaya Sri Swami Swaroopanand was destin...
swami lakshman joo
 
 
A renounced yogi, Swami Lakshman Joo was born on May 9,1907, in Srinagar, Kashmir. His father, Shr...
v. gene robinson
 
 
Name: Gene Robinson Born: 2...
jayatiirtha
 
 
S wami Jayathirtha was a famous exponent of the Tattvavada (logical exposition) of the Dwaita philo...
nimbarka
 
 
A Vaishnava philosopher and mystic, Nimbarka was born in a Telegu Brahman family in the 11th centu...
prahlada
 
 
I n Hinduism, Prahlada was a son of Hiranyakashipu, a Daitya who hated the devas, and most especial...
raël
 
 
angelo scola
 
 
Name: Angelo Cardinal Scola Born: N...
abhinavagupta
 
 
O ne of the most outstanding philosophers of Shaiva philosophy was Abhinavagupta, who lived in Kash...
dhruva
 
 
S on of king Uttanapada and Suneethi. The king Uttaanapada was very fond of his second wife Suruchi...
mata amritanandamayi
 
 
1baa M ata Amritanandamayi, also known as ‘Amma’, ‘Ammachi’ or ‘Mo...
swami divayanand ji teerth
 
 
S hankaracharya Swami Divayanand Ji Teerth is the eleventh successor Shankaracharya of this Holy pe...
harold davidson
 
 
Name: Harold Francis Davidson Born: 14...
sun myung moon
 
 
Name: Sun Myung Moon Born: 2...
paramahamsa yogananda
 
 
P aramahamsa Yogananda, a practitioner of Kriya Yoga, was born in Gorakhpur in 1893. His journey to...
vasishta
 
 
V asishta, in Hindu mythology was chief of the seven venerated sages (or Saptharishi ) and the Raja...
hazrat inayat khan
 
 
A renowned Sufi saint, Hazrat Inayat Khan was born in a family of musicians in 1882. His house was...
maharajashri
 
 
M aharajashri was born on July 25,1911, in the village of Maharai in Varanasi. During his childhood...

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