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pÉ! g¡L¬« Qc¡c¡« pÉ! g¡L¬« Qc¡c¡« pÉ! g¡L¬« Qc¡c¡« pÉ! g¡L¬« Qc¡c¡« Great Bhaktas – Santh Eknath Veena Nair [Translated from Shri Pandurang Shastri Athavale's 'Shraadh' in Hindi, a homage to the great people who have graced our land. I had previously posted the following piece as a 3-part series to the Guruvayoor group in Sept/Oct 2005. Older members, I hope you will enjoy re-reading this as much as I have. – Veena] Sant Eknath was born about 600 years ago in Paithan in Maharashtra. His great-grandfather Bhanudas had always prayed to God that he should have a descendant who through faith and devotion would have the power even to call God to his side; Bhanudas led a very pious life, and so did his son Chakrapani and grandson Suryapani. Their life of devotion was to be answered with the birth of Suryapani's son 'Eknath'. But strange are the ways of Fate; when Eknath was only 11/2 years old, Eknath's mother died. Suryapani was devastated; he thought how is this boy going to be of any significance? soon after his birth, his mother has died? But he resigned himself to God's will and continued with life. When Eknath was 6 yrs old, Suryapani came down with severe fever; little Eknath was in his grandma's lap listening to his grandad's story and his father lying in a cot seriously ill. Soon grandad's story-telling stopped; Eknath sat up to see both grandparents crying and neighbors coming in to the house and standing around silently. He asked his grandad why they were crying? Chakrapani told him that his father was dead, everyone would have to die one day and go where his father had gone; so Eknath replied by saying that if everyone goes there, then I will also go there when I die and then I will meet dad; so then why cry? Both grandparents devoted their energies in imparting spiritual education to Eknath; when taught Matrudevo bhava, Pitru-devo bhava, he would say but I don't have a mother or father? So whom should I treat as God? and they said, God is the all-knowing father of all of us; look up to Him and bow to Him; do His work and live a life dedicated to Him. Eknath was then assigned to learn at the feet of a learned Brahmin; but by age 14 he had learnt everything that the learned teacher could teach him. He absorbed everything like a blotting paper. Sometimes the teacher would hear Eknath's responses and wonder if he is teaching him the same thing twice? Sometimes he would be at a loss to answer Eknath's questions! Then one day he told Chakrapani that he had taught the boy everything he knew. Eknath became worried--his teacher would not teach him anymore; he himself was not yet ready to teach. What should he do? He would go and pray everyday for guidance in the Shiv temple near his house. One day he heard a voice asking him to go to Devgiri and become a disciple of Shri Janardan Swami. \h\oXw www.guruvayoor.com/Navaneetham Page- 13
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