Mahayogi Gorakhnath Gorakhnath was born in a very poor family at Punjab in the eighteenth century. The exact date of birth is not known. At a very early age he lost his father and his pious and devoted mother took the charge of her only son. At the age of twelve, he left home to become a sannyasi and went to the Pashupatinath temple at Nepal. Here he met his guru...

Trailanga Swami Mahatma Trailanga Swami was born in a Zamindar family in 1622 at Viziyanagram in Andhra Pradesh. His nick name was Sivaram. His father’s name was Narasimha Rao and mother’s name was Vidyabati Devi. Trailanga Swami was present in his mortal body for nearly 275 years. During his long life, he spent nearly 150 years at Varanasi. Since his early life, Sivaram was unattached with the family life and always...

Ramdas Swami Ramdas was born in the village Jambu near Bir Pargana on the bank of the river Godavari in Maharashtra in the year 1608. His father’s name was Suryaji Panth and his mother’s name was Rama Bai. As both the husband and the wife were devotees of Sri Ramachandra, they named of the child as Rarndas (the servant of Ram). He was the second son of his parents. His father...

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....