Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

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A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 202 _________________________________________________________________________________________ The Tradition Of Swaroop Sampradaya – Shree Beedkar Maharaj Akkalkot Niwasi Sri Swami Samarth Maharaj had ordered his most able and enthusiastic disciple Shree Sadguru Beedkar Maharaj to propagate further the Swaroop Sampradaya, by staying in Pune, Maharashtra, Shree Beedkar Maharaj was the youngest disciple of Sri Swamiji by age, but seniormost in spiritual accomplishment. He was born on 22 nd November 1839, in the family of a Rigvedi Brahmin. He was very intelligent, fair skinned with bright lustrous eyes, a charming slim body stature, and an impressive personality. His father worked as one of the trusted employees of the wealthy peshwai of Pune. By misfortune, Ramanand lost his father at a tender age of seven. The British rulers at that time offered a pension of two hundred rupees to his mother Gangutai , but she declined to accept it on the grounds of self-respect and her resolve not to subsist on the help of foreigners. From early childhood, Ramanand had a great attraction towards the worship of God. One particular year, he and his friends planned and started their journey towards Pandharpur. However, after walking for some distance his friends got tired and foreseeing the difficulties in their journey they returned, but Ramanand continued his journey alone on foot and finally reached Pandharpur. In Pandharpur, there was a huge crowd of pilgrims everywhere around the temple. Overwhelmed with the huge crowd, Ramanand felt he would never be able to get the Divine sight of Lord Vithoba; he became totally helpless and started to cry. Miraculously, Lord Vithoba himself, disguised as a temple priest took hold of Ramanand’s hand and walked him to the innermost part of the temple very near to the idol of Lord Vithoba. He arranged for his ‘Darshan’ of Lord Vithoba, grabbed one of the garlands from the idol of Lord Vithoba, and put it on Ramanand’s neck. Afterwards, the priest took him out of the temple in open space, left him there, and then suddenly disappeared. Once Ramanand had been to Saptashringee Hill near Nasik, Maharashtra, for having the ‘Darshan’ of Goddess Saptashringee. Then miracle took place. The Veeda, which was placed in the mouth of Goddess Saptashringee, fell down in the hands of Ramanand. It was a miracle, since this Veeda never had fallen down in the past. The devotees standing there clapped their hands for this miracle and had respected Ramanand saying, “You are a great devotee and the Goddess has blessed you”. Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 203 _________________________________________________________________________________________ After completing some school education, Ramanand started his own moneylending business. He also had a remarkable gift of examining precious stones. He later started a business for antiques. Once, he while he was cleaning some of the antiques he had bought in a good deal, he found a unique lamp stand. While cleaning this lamp stand, he found that it was made of gold and contained diamonds and rubies in the hollow portion of its base. Thus, he became a wealthy man overnight. He then started his own money lending business and people now started addressing him as Bhausaheb Shroff with due respect for his high status in the society. Due to the sudden dawn of good fortune, he started living a life full of enjoyment and pleasures. He developed a passion for dance and music entertainment, as well as drinking wine. Gradually, the Divine grace of Goddess Laxmi started diminishing on him and he was mentally very unhappy. He sought after various saints, when one of them taught him the art of alchemy. Shree Beedkar Maharaj had enjoyed all pleasures of life to the utmost degree and had reached the top of worldly pleasures. When all paths to worldly pleasures came to a saturation point, he decided to put an end to his sensual pleasures and achieve life’s highest truth, the Divine Truth. He sought out and visited many ascetics as well as saints and often had long spiritual discussions with them. Observing his ways and style, one saint remarked sarcastically “You are enjoying all the pleasures of your life to the utmost degree. You are not fit for achieving life’s highest truth, the Divine Truth. You have to accept ascetism otherwise, you cannot achieve anything”. This sarcastic remark touched the heart of this strong minded as well as firmly resolved Ramanand Beedkar and vowed that he would put an end to his life of sensual pleasures and achieve life’s highest truth, that is the Divine Truth. He did vow but became restless, as he was totally accustomed to the life of sensual pleasures. However, once he took a forward step, it was his in-born quality never to retreat, so he started worshipping his family deity, Lord Hanuman. After few days of concentrated worship, pleased by his strong devotion Lord Hanuman blessed him with a vision in his dream and advised him to go to Akkalkot and get the blessings of Akkalkot Niwasi Sri Swami Samarth. Ramanand went to Akkalkot. He was so determined that he vowed not to accept any food until he gets the blessings from Sri Swami Samarth. Sri Swami Samarth was staying at the palace of the ruler of Akkalkot during those few days and there was no possibility of him coming out of the palace, at least for the next fifteen days. Ramanand was determined not to break his vow. He fasted severely for two days. On the third day, Sri Swami Samarth started screaming at the palace incumbents, “You are imprisoning me? My devotees are facing difficulties since they are not getting my blessings”. So with an uproar, Sri Swami Samarth jumped out from a wall of the palace possibly for the sake of his to-be favourite disciple, Ramanand Beedkar. When Ramanand Beedkar came to know about Swami’s whereabouts, he carried all the material and objects required to worship a deity and went to Sri Swami Samarth. He offered his worship and surrendered himself at the feet of Sri Swami Samarth. Sri Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
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