Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 64
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actually the Supreme Being, Lord Dattatrey. I got accomplishment in my life by
the very ‘Darshan’ of your Divine Form”.
The worshipper of the idols at Rameshwar in Tamilnadu was collecting money
from the pilgrims who wanted to take bath in the holy waters of the Koti Koop Tirth125.
He did not allow Sri Swami Samarth to take bath in the holy waters, without paying
money. At this same instant worms started writhing in the holy waters of ‘Koti Koop
Tirth’. The worshipper became nervous and approached the Shankaracharya 123 of
Shringeri Muth. Then the Shankaracharya went in a state of Samadhi 124 and observed
that Sri Swami Samarth is not only an ascetic but infact an incarnation of Lord
Dattatrey Himself. After realising the truth, all the people surrendered to Sri Swami
Samarth. Only then the Tirth 125 got purified.
Vamanbua Brahmachari Badodekar was very studious of Vedanta. He wanted to
get absorbed in the contemplation of Brahma and experience the knowledge given in
the Vedanta. Hence he went to Ganagapur and carried out a thorough reading
Gurucharitra 126 . Lord Dattatrey Himself appeared in his dream and blessed Vamanbua
with the ‘Darshan’ and said, “I am personally present in Akkalkot itself. Hence do not
wander”.
Yashwant Mahadeo Bhosekar was a Rigvedi Brahmin 127 . An ascetic gave him
visionary insight in his dream asking him to proceed to Mangalvedha, Solapur District in
Maharashtra. There he got the ‘Darshan’ of Sri Swami Samarth and then he prayed
“Maharaj, I have fully experienced that you are the incarnation of Lord Dattatrey
Himself in entirety”. Sri Swami Samarth initiated Bhosekar and the fame of Bhosekar,
as a saintly person, spread in all directions. He was popularly called as Dev
Mamlatdar 128 . His Tomb is located in Nasik.
From all the above incidents, it becomes clear that Sri Swami Samarth
Maharaj was the complete incarnation of Lord Dattatrey Himself. In this
incarnation of Sri Swami Samarth, Sri Narsinha Saraswati had also personally
manifested. The manifestation of Lord Dattatrey, Sri Narsinha Saraswati and
Sri Swami Samarth though taken separately, are but one and the same. They
are the three forms of the same manifestation of Lord Dattatrey himself.
123 Shankaracharya: Shankaracharya, (Sankaracharya in standard transliteration) is a commonly used title of heads of mathas
(monasteries) in the Advaita tradition. The title derives from Sankara of Kaladi, an influential theologian of Hinduism, who first
established four mathas in the four regions of India. He was given the name Sankara at birth, and acharya is a title, meaning
'learned teacher'. As the first historically recognized teacher in the lineage, Sankara is also called Adi Sankara. (The Sanskrit
word Adi means original/first.) The four institutions traditionally said to have been established by Adi Sankara are;
the Uttaramnaya matha, or northern matha at Joshimath, the Purvamnaya matha or eastern matha, the Govardhana matha,
at Puri, the Dakshinamnaya matha, or the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, the southern matha, at Shringeri, the Paschimamnaya
matha, or the Dwaraka Pitha, the western matha, at Dwarka. The heads of these four institutions are considered the principal
Shankaracharya-s in India today.
124 Samadhi: see Footnote 46above.
125 Tirth: A pond of Holy water. Also see Footnote
126 GuruCharitra: In this context it is the Biography of Lord Dattatreya
127 Rigvedi Brahmin: A follower of Rigveda, the first of the four Vedas, Hindu Holy Scriptures. Also see Footnote 11.
128 Mamlatdar: Taluka Magistrate
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