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Kabir Das, a mystical poet and great Saint of India, was born in the year 1440 and died

in the year 1518. According to the Islam the meaning of the Kabir is The Great. Kabir
Panth is the huge religious community which identifies the Kabir as the originator of the
Sant Mat sects. The members of Kabir Panth are known as the Kabir panthis who had
extended all over the over north and central India. Some of the great writings of the
Kabir Das are Bijak, Kabir Granthawali, Anurag Sagar, Sakhi Granth etc. It is clearly not
known about his birth parents but it is noted that he has been grew up by the very poor
family of Muslim weavers. He was very spiritual person and became a great Sadhu. He
got fame all over the world because of his influential traditions and culture.

It is considered that he got all his spiritual training from his Guru named, Ramananda, in
his early childhood. One day, he became a well known disciple of the Guru
Ramananda. The house of the Kabir Das has accommodated students and scholars for
living and studying his great works.

There is no clue of the birth parent of the Kabir Das but it is considered that he was
cared by a Muslim family. He was founded in Lehartara, a small town in Varanasi by the
Niru and Nima (his care taker parents). His parents were extremely poor and
uneducated but they very heartily adopted the little baby and trained him about their
own business. He lived the balanced life of a simple house holder and a mystic.

Kabir Das Teaching

It is considered that he got his spiritual training came from the Ramananda, guru of the
Sant Kabir. In the starting Ramananda was not agreeing to accept Kabir Das as his
disciple. Once upon a time, Sant Kabir Das had lie down on the ladders of the pond and
reading the mantra of Rama-Rama, in the early morning Ramananda was going for
taking bath and Kabir come down below his feet. Ramananda felt guilty for that activity
and then Ramananda was forced to accept him as his disciple. It is believed that Kabirs
family is still living in the Kabir Chaura in Varanasi.
It is the photo of the Saint Kabir Math in the Varanasi where saints are busy in the
singing Kabir Ke Dohe. It is the place of giving real education of life to the people.
Kabir Das, a mystical poet and great Saint of India, was born in the year 1440 and died
in the year 1518. According to the Islam the meaning of the Kabir is The Great. Kabir
Panth is the huge religious community which identifies the Kabir as the originator of the
Sant Mat sects. The members of Kabir Panth are known as the Kabir panthis who had
extended all over the over north and central India. Some of the great writings of the
Kabir Das are Bijak, Kabir Granthawali, Anurag Sagar, Sakhi Granth etc. It is clearly not
known about his birth parents but it is noted that he has been grew up by the very poor
family of Muslim weavers. He was very spiritual person and became a great Sadhu. He
got fame all over the world because of his influential traditions and culture.

It is considered that he got all his spiritual training from his Guru named, Ramananda, in
his early childhood. One day, he became a well known disciple of the Guru
Ramananda. The house of the Kabir Das has accommodated students and scholars for
living and studying his great works.

There is no clue of the birth parent of the Kabir Das but it is considered that he was
cared by a Muslim family. He was founded in Lehartara, a small town in Varanasi by the
Niru and Nima (his care taker parents). His parents were extremely poor and
uneducated but they very heartily adopted the little baby and trained him about their
own business. He lived the balanced life of a simple house holder and a mystic.

Kabir Das Teaching

It is considered that he got his spiritual training came from the Ramananda, guru of the
Sant Kabir. In the starting Ramananda was not agreeing to accept Kabir Das as his
disciple. Once upon a time, Sant Kabir Das had lie down on the ladders of the pond and
reading the mantra of Rama-Rama, in the early morning Ramananda was going for
taking bath and Kabir come down below his feet. Ramananda felt guilty for that activity
and then Ramananda was forced to accept him as his disciple. It is believed that Kabirs
family is still living in the Kabir Chaura in Varanasi.
It is the photo of the Saint Kabir Math in the Varanasi where saints are busy in the
singing Kabir Ke Dohe. It is the place of giving real education of life to the people.
Explorer Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal, around 1460. In 1497, he was
commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East. His success
in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of
navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as
Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.

Early Years

Explorer Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family around 1460 in Sines, Portugal.
Little is known about his upbringing except that he was the third son of Estvo da
Gama, who was commander of the fortress in Sines in the southwestern pocket of
Portugal. When he was old enough, young Vasco da Gama joined the navy, where was
taught how to navigate.

Known as a tough and fearless navigator, da Gama solidified his reputation as a


reputable sailor when, in 1492, King John II of Portugal dispatched him to the south of
Lisbon and then to the Algarve region of the country, to seize French ships as an act of
vengeance against the French government for disrupting Portuguese shipping.

Following da Gama's completion of King John II's orders, in 1495, King Manuel took the
throne, and the country revived its earlier mission to find a direct trade route to India. By
this time, Portugal had established itself as one of the most powerful maritime countries
in Europe.

Much of that was due to Henry the Navigator, who, at his base in the southern region of
the country, had brought together a team of knowledgeable mapmakers, geographers
and navigators. He dispatched ships to explore the western coast of Africa to expand
Portugal's trade influence. He also believed that he could find and form an alliance with
Prester John, who ruled over a Christian empire somewhere in Africa. Henry the
Navigator never did locate Prester John, but his impact on Portuguese trade along
Africa's east coast during his 40 years of explorative work was undeniable. Still, for all
his work, the southern portion of Africawhat lay eastremained shrouded in mystery.

In 1487, an important breakthrough was made when Bartolomeu Dias discovered the
southern tip of Africa and rounded the Cape of Good Hope. This journey was significant;
it proved, for the first time, that the Atlantic and Indian oceans were connected. The trip,
in turn, sparked a renewed interest in seeking out a trade route to India.

By the late 1490s, however, King Manuel wasn't just thinking about commercial
opportunities as he set his sights on the East. In fact, his impetus for finding a route was
driven less by a desire to secure for more lucrative trading grounds for his country, and
more by a quest to conquer Islam and establish himself as the king of Jerusalem.

Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji was born in 1469 in Talwandi, a village in the Sheikhupura
district, 65 kms. west of Lahore. His father was a village official in the local revenue
administration. As a boy, Sri Guru Nanak learnt, besides the regional languages,
Persian and Arabic. He was married in 1487 and was blessed with two sons, one in
1491 and the second in 1496. In 1485 he took up, at the instance of his brother-in-law,
the appointment of an official in charge of the stores of Daulat Khan Lodhi, the Muslim
ruler of the area at Sultanpur. It is there that he came into contact with Mardana, a
Muslim minstrel (Mirasi) who was senior in age.

Guru Nanak (15 April 1469 22 September 1539) was the founder of Sikhism and
the first of the Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide on Kartik Puranmashi, the
full-moon day which falls on different dates each year in the month of Katak, October
November.[2]

Guru Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells
in every one of God's creations and constitutes the eternal Truth.[3]He set up a unique
spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and
virtue.[4][5][6]
It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak's sanctity, divinity and
religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the
Guruship was devolved on to them

Biography of Sant Tukaram

Sant Tukaram (Hindi: ) was a prominent Varkari Sant (Saint) and


spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.

Birth and Early Life

Tukaram was born in the small village of Dehu in the West Indian state of Maharashtra
to Bolhoba and Kanakai a couple belonging to the lower Sudra class. His real name is
Tukaram Vhilhoba Aambe. Rather, in accord with another tradition in India of assigning
the epithet "sant" () to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, Tukaram is
commonly known in Maharashtra as Sant Tukaram ( ). He is known as
Bhakta Tukaram to southern Indian people. He had two other brothers. Despite their
lower class status the family was well to do and enjoyed good social standing in the
village. Tukaram's troubles started with the illness of his father, due to which he had to
start supporting his family at the tender age of thirteen. Shortly thereafter, both his
parents died. Tukaram's problems only mounted; death of his family members and
economic hardship seemed to plague him.

Scholars assign various birth years to Sant Tukaram: 1577, 1598, 1608 and 1609 CE.
The year of Sant Tukaram's death 1650 CE is much more certain.

Family Life
Tukaram was married twice, his first wife Rakhumabai died in 1602 in her early
youthdue to starvation during a famine, his second wife Jijabai or Avali as she was
called, was much younger than his first had been and had little patience with his
devotion and for God and she nagged him continuously. Sant Tukaram and his second
wife, Jijabai had three sons: Santu or Mahdev, Vithob, and Nryan.

Spiritual Life and Poetry

Sant Tukaram was initiated without any intermediaries as the other saints usually were.
He dreamt that he was initiated by the Lord Hari himself dressed as a Brahman.

Tukaram continuously sang the praises of the Lord, he sang it in the form of abhangs
which he wrote. These were in his mother tongue Marathi. The abhangs express his
feelings and philosophical outlook. During his 41 years, Tukaram composed over 5,000
abhangs. Many of them speak of events in his life, which make them somewhat
autobiographical. Yet, they are focused on God, Pandurang, and not Tukaram. His
abhangs became very popular with the masses of common people. It was this very
popularity that caused the religious establishment (the high caste Brahmins) to hate and
persecute Tukaram. as, he was causing them to lose their power over the people.

About Namadeva
Namadeva was one of the most famous poet saints of the thirteenth and fourteenth
century. He was the composer of hundreds of 'abhangs' (devotional songs). Even today,
devotees can be seen singing the beautiful abhangs of Namadeva. Read on this
biography to know more about Namadeva
His Life
There is an interesting legend associated with the birth of Namadeva. It is said that
Damashet, after being persuaded by his wife, went to the temple of Lord Panduranga to
pray for a child. The same night, Lord Panduranga appeared in his dream and asked
him to go to the ghats of Bhima River the next morning. He told Damashet that there will
be a floating shell in the river, in which he will find small child. He may take that child to
his care and treat him as his own child.

Damashet did as told and came back with an infant in his arms. Damashet, and his wife,
Gonayi gave him the name 'Nama'. Nama showed deep dedication to the Lord right
from his childhood. As Namadeva grew older, his devotion towards also grew.
Namadeva got married to a girl named Rajayi (or Radha Bai). They had four children,
namely Narayana, Vitthala, Govinda and Mahadeva. Namdeva spent all his life in the
devotion of the great Lord Panduranga and left for the holy abode in the year 1350.

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