Goswami Tulsidas     Goswami Tulsidas was born on 1543 at the Rajpur village in the district Banda, near Prayag in U.P. His father’s name was Pandit. Atmaram Dwivedi and mother’s name was Halsi Devi. During his early age he lost his parents and fostered by his father’s Gurudev Sri Narasing Dass. He married to Ratnabali Devi at an early age. Since boyhood, he was very much hankering for the real...

Madhusudan Saraswati     Sri Madhusudan Saraswati was born at Kotalipara sub-division of Faridpur district (now in Bangladesh) on 1526. His father’s name was Purandaracharya, who was a great scholar of Dharmasastra and Sanskrit literature. He was the fourth son of his parents. From the very early age his profound knowledge in the Hindu Sastras and Sanatan Dharma spread all over the country. He was initiated into a life of renunciation...

Srikrishna Chaitanya     Srikrishna Chaitanya was born at Nabadwip Dham, district Nadia in West Bengal on the day of Holi festival in the month of March, 1486. His father’s name was Pandit Jagannath Mishra and mother’s name was Sachi Devi. His nick name was Nimai and he was the second son of his parents. Their first son Biswarup who renounced this worldly life and became a sannyasi, who came to...

Prabhu Nityananda   Prabhu Nityananda was born in a remote village named Ekachakra, Birchandrapur, within the Rampurhat sub-division at Birbhum district (in West Bengal) on 12th January, 1473. His father’s name was Mukunda Bandopadhyay (Harai Pandit), who was very religious minded and well versed in the Sanskrit language and shastras. His mother’s name was Padmavati Devi. His nick name was Kuber. Kuber was attracted to Sadhus and Saints since his boyhood....

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism. Sikhism is a form of Hinduism with the evident influence of Islam on it. Sikhism accepts the Hindu doctrines of karma and sansar, Maya and Moksha.  In shares with Hinduism faith in the efficacy of the holy name and the grace of the Guru. Nanak was born at Nankana village in the district of Gujranwala near Lahore (now in Pakistan)...

Sankardeva   Once Sri Ramakrishna said: “Sometimes God acts as the magnet and the devotee as the needle. God attracts the devotee to Himself. Again, sometimes the devotee acts as the magnet and God as the needle. Such is the attraction of the devotee that God comes to him, unable to resist his love”. And such was the love of Sankaradeva that Lord Krishna or Sri Jagannathprabhu of Puri could not...

Haridass   Bhakta Haridass was born in a Muslim family at a remote village under Khulna District (now in Bangladesh) on 1450. His parent’s names are not known. About his childhood very little is known. At the age of. eighteen he came to Shantipur in Nadia Dist. (W.B.), the famous for Vaishnava-cult and met the great Vaishanava Acharya Sri Advaita. He was initiated by Sri Advaita and entered his school as a...