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Ranjit Maharaj

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Ranjit Maharaj Ranjit Maharaj was born in Bombay on January 4th, 1913. Intensely religious as a child, he used to eagerly worship Lord Krishna. “But when I was my guru I forgot Lord Krishna,” he would declare shortly. At the period of 12, he met his master Siddharameshwar Maharaj, a huge guru from the Navnath Sampradaya ritual who was also the master of Nisargadatta Maharaj. Ranjit Maharaj stayed with his Guru from this time until Siddharameshwar’s death in 1936. While Siddharameshwar’s guru trained the extended and difficult path of dhyana or thought, Siddharameshwar honestly communicated information, gyana, of the final actuality to his disciples, including Ranjit Maharaj. This way, he said students could achieve englightenment very fast, like a bird as opposed to the Pipilika Marg or the way of the ant trained by his Master. It was this path that Ranjit Maharaj also taught his disciples. Ranjit Maharaj did not begin to educate until 1983 at the age of 70 when rising numbers of se...

Shlomo Kalo

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Shlomo Kalo   Shlomo Kalo is an Israeli religious teacher; creator and spiritual sage who published further than 60 books, several of his works are published in 17 countries. Shlomo Kalo was born in 1928, in Sofia , Bulgaria , Aged 12, Kalo joined an anti-Fascist underground in Bulgaria . Aged 15, under Nazi job, he was imprisoned in a awareness camp in Somovit. Aged 18, he won a prize in a poetry struggle and went to Prague , where he calculated medicine and worked as a self-employed reporter. Before immigrating to Israel , aged 21, he was sent to Olomouc to train as a pilot. In 1958 he was awarded M.Sc. in microbiology by the Tel Aviv University . For 26 years and awaiting his departure in 1988 he worked as the director of medical laboratories. The sharp twist in his life in which he gets realized occurred in the initial week of 1969 even as attractive a bus to work. The turn is well indication, amongst others, in his writings. 1988 was the year when the general media experi...

Bhaktaraj Maharaj

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Bhaktaraj Maharaj Satguru Shri Anantananda Saish, The huge saint who was holy by Shri Saibaba of Shirdi had talented two huge disciples to the globe viz. H. H. Baba (H. H. Bhaktaraj Maharaj was lovingly addressed as Baba by His devotees). The previous (H. H. Bhuranand baba) became a sanyasi staying in a small cottage at Mehtakhedi near Badwah in M.P. and expert penance for years jointly on the bank of the river Narmada helping numerous sadhus and sanyasis who visited his cottage. The further believer was twisted into a Rajyogi for the release of the devotees attentive in the illusions of the experienced life. “It is not the things and matter that should be deserted but quite their appeal that should be given up”, says he. Still in his early life before meeting the Guru he was basically a good and pious man with a profound passion for Bhajans and sympathy for the poor and the helpless. Once he had scattered all the crackers in a shop to the poor children on the street and rewarded all t...

Gurudev Jangalidas Maharaj

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Gurudev Jangalidas Maharaj Vishwatmak Gurudev generally known as Jangli Maharaj, a name given by the common man throughout his time, was incarnated as the Universal power by Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh. This Universal power Vishwatmak Gurudev Started his work for the downtrodden and meditated deeply in the forest i.e. Jungle & that is why he was called as Jangli Maharaj by the comman man passing and considering him. Vishwatmak Gurudev visited Karadga, Nerla, Rethered Harnaksha and made these seats as sacred and religious places. Finally he came to Bhamburde. In his last phase of rigorous meditation he gave Guru Mantra to one of his supporter known as Tekawadekar Maharaj and told him that, “I will maintain to work in my next personification. This symbol was Swastik Darshan and in 1890 A.D Vishwatmak Gurudev i.e. Jangli Maharaj left for next destiny. In Mumbai there was a boy who very loved of religion and forever uses to consider. His parents were happy to recognize this truth but w...

John de Ruiter

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John de Ruiter Raised in Stettler, a ranching society in central Alberta , John was brought up a Roman Catholic by Dutch settler parents.   At the period of seventeen, he practiced an ecstatic but fleeting development, which he presently described as an “awareness of truth… joy, love, and deep, inner rest.” He exhausted the next decade trying to restore that sensation.” I began to struggle and search powerfully through many special means; relentlessly pursuing everything I supposed force show me the way back,” he explains in his book of teachings.   For about Ruiter married Joyce de Ruiter in 1982. A year presently, they moved to Toronto , where they both attended a downtown Baptist seminary. But they were shortly put off by the leadership; they both felt it was too rigid. They finished one year of studies and then returned to Alberta , enrolling in the Prairie Bible institution in Three Hills.   Behind other years there, John resolute that he didn’t need any more academic trai...

Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada

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Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada (February 3, 1874 – January 1, 1937)[1][2], was a extremely powerful priest of Gaudiya Vaishnavism during India in the late 19 th and early 20 th Century. He was born as Bimal Prasad Dutta in the seaside pilgrimage municipality of Jagannath Puri , Orissa , India .   His father was the Vaishnava scholar Sri Kedarnath Dutta, Later known as Bhaktivinoda Thakur, the initial to there the teaching of Chaitanyite Vaishnavism to the English talking world and was notable Gaudiya Vaishnava Theologian. Bimal Prasad was famous for having a burning preaching force and particularly delicate brains. Through the time he was twenty-five years old, Bimala Prasada had acquired an inspiring status as a scholar of Sanskrit, mathematics, and astronomy. Control and publication of an early huge, Surya Siddhanta, won him the title Siddhanta Sarasvati in gratitude of his huge knowledge.   In ...

Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

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Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Brahmananda Saraswati (1871 – 1953) a Hindu Guru who was born into a Brahmin family in the village of Gana , near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh , India . At the period of nine he left home to stroll and follow a religious path of rejection. At the age 14 he found his master, Dandi Swami Krishnanand Saraswati, in Uttar Kashi. Afterward, following his master’s opening, he retired to a yield; decide not to appear waiting until he had attained enlightenment. In 1904 he was initiated in to the order of “Sannyas” by his Master at the Kumbh Mela. In 1941, once decades of thought and maintain quiet, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati lastly decades of thought peace, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati finally established frequent request to become the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, a place that been empty for about 150 years. The Adi Shankara the huge reviver of Vedic Santana Dharma Had four principal followers. Padma-Pada, Hasta-Malaka, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was the guru o...