Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

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A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 224 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Shree Seetarambua Walawalkar Maharaj Shree Seetarambua Walawalkar was a dedicated disciple of Shree Digambarbaba Vahalkar. He belonged to the Terase Bambarde village, Sawantwadi Taluka, Sindhudurg District in Maharashtra. After studying for a few years he went to Mumbai in search of employment. He worked for 8 to 10 years in a cotton mill, a cloth store and for some time with the Police Department. From early childhood he had strong attachment and devotion towards God. One day suddenly he distributed his entire salary amongst beggars, quit his job, and wore a loincloth and a long robe to become a fakir. He continuously started to chant the name of Lord Shiva and smeared his entire body with ashes. Wandering about in this condition he reached the Maruti-Mandir at Kondamala village near Chiplun District. Observing his inclination towards asceticism the people of Kondamala took him to Shree Digambarbaba Vahalkar at Sawarde. Shree Digambarbaba stayed with his fellow-disciple Shree Shembekarbua at Sawarde in Datta-Mandir (the temple of Lord Dattatrey). Shree Digambarbaba accepted Shree Seetarambua as a disciple and allowed him to stay at the temple. Since then, Seetarambua humbly offered his entire life in the service of his Guru. He fully absorbed himself in ploughing the fields belonging to Datta-Mandir, building embankments in the farms to prevent flooding, begging and collecting alms for managing the temple works, celebrating the festivals and rendering service to the Guru etc. He single-handedly broke a sheet of rock near the temple and built a well. He used water from this well and built a garden for the temple. Early every morning he collected the holy basil for his worship and then worked in the farms. At noon, after taking bath he performed all the religious rituals and then went to collect alms. He would then cook his food with the alms collected and offer the same as ‘Naivedya’ to Lord Dattatrey before serving himself. From noon until night, he would work in the field and then render service at the feet of his Guru, Shree Digambarbaba. Shree Seetarambua rendered such undivided devotional service to his Guru Shree Digambarbaba for nearly forty years. He was the ideal of devotion to a Guru. Shree Digambarbaba Vahalkar Maharaj of Sarwarde belonged to a particular tradition of Shree Swami Samarth, which also belonged to Shree Baba Maharaj Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 225 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Sahasrabuddhe alias Shree Vasudevanant Saraswati, Pune (disciple of Shree Ramachandra Beedkar Maharaj). There was a tie of affection between these two sects. Shree Digambardas Maharaj, disciple of Shree Sahasrabuddhe Maharaj always met Shree Vahalkar Maharaj since 1942. After Shree Vahalkar Maharaj took Samadhi, Shree Baba Maharaj Sahasrabuddhe had ordered Shree Digambardas Maharaj to take care of Seetarambua in all ways. As per his wishes, Shree Digambardas Maharaj provided all types of support to Seetarambua. Shree Digambardas Maharaj coordinated with both these branches of Shree Swami Samarth tradition and handled exceptional social welfare works. Every year, Shree Digambardas Maharaj went to Sawarde three to four times and celebrated the religious festivals at Sawarde with great pomp. He provided petromaxes, carpets, pots and vessels, pairs of cymbol and tabors, wealth and food grains etc for these festivals. He helped Seetarambua in all manners with pleasure as per the wishes of his Sadguru. Seetarambua survived by collecting cooked food for alms. To reduce his hardships, Shree Vahalkarbua had given him the one and a half acre land belonging to the ‘Datta-Mandir’. Shree Vahalkarbua had entrusted the temple ’Datta-Mandir’ to his son-in- law Raghunath Shembeka who seized the land given to Seetarambua and took it in his possession. Shree Seetarambua had to once again start collecting cooked food in alms. He somehow managed the festivals of Datta-Jayanti (The festival held in the month of Margashirsh, December in the honour of Lord Dattatrey) as well as the ‘punyatithi’ (the death anniversary day) of saint Sadguru Vahalkarbua by collecting alms. Shree Digambardas Maharaj purchased some nearby land and a bullock cart for Seetarambua. Raghunath Shembekar was furious with this act and started disregarding Seetarambua. Shree Seetarambua had built a small Lord Hanuman temple at the funeral site of his Guru, Sadguru Vahalkarbua. A thatched roof covered the top of this small temple. Out of anger, Shembekar pulled down that temple. Shree Digambardas Maharaj purchased land in the nearby Dervan Village and built another ‘Hanuman Mandir’ (Temple of Lord Hanuman). He also started building a house for Shree Seetarambua but in the meantime, Seetarambua ended his mundane life in 1969 and departed from this world. Thereafter, Shree Digambardas Maharaj had to take all the responsibilities of that temple. In the memory of Shree Seetarambua, a dedicated devotee of Shree Swami Samarth tradition, Shree Digambardas Maharaj established the ‘Shree Sant Seetarambua Walawalkar Charitable Trust’ through which he started many resolves for the awakening and welfare of the people. First of all he built a Temple-shrine of Shree Seetarambua and then onwards started many programmes of rendering devotional service to God, nation as well as rendering welfare service to the people in Dervan. This place now represents an everlasting and permanent memory of Shree Seetarambua Walawalkar. Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
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