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		Sri Adi Sankar - acharya The greatest exponent of Advaita Vedanta and a savior of Vedic Dharma


		Sri Satya Sai Baba A divine incarnation...a divine guru living at Prashanti Nilayam, India


		Sri Guruji Viswanath A spiritual guru bridging spiritual values and modern day living


		Osho -Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A great philosopher - saint and mystic of the twentieth century


		Sri Ramakrishna Deva A saint who broke the frontiers of Hinduism


		H. H. Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati A great yogi and sage who devoted his life to the service of humanity


		Sri Sarada Devi Known as �Holy Mother�, and known as the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna


		Swami Vivekananda An inspiring personality, regarded as one of India's foremost nation-builders


		The Mother A spiritual leader, who also excelled as a pianist and writer


		Sri Aurobindo A political activist, Indian Yogi, and spiritual master


		Bhagavan Sri Ramana Probably the most famous Indian sage of the twentieth century


		Sri Yogi Ramsurat Kumar Popularly called as God child of Tiruvannamalai


		Dada J. P. Vaswani Dada Jashan P. Vaswani is the spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Pune, India.

Sri Adi Sankaracharya

Sankara encountered serious difficulties in performing the funeral rites of his mother. Usually, Sannyasins do not perform any of the rites or ceremonies which are enjoined on the householders. The Nambudiri Brahmins were all against Sankara. Sankara's relatives also did not help him. They did not come forward to assist him even in carrying the dead body to the place of cremation and refused to give fire for igniting the funeral pyre. At last Sankara determined to perform the funeral rites all alone. As he could not carry the entire dead body, he cut it into pieces and removed the pieces one by one to the backyard of the house. He then made a pyre there of stems of plantain trees and set fire to it by his Yogic power. Sankara wanted to teach the Nambudiris a lesson. He then made the local chief issue an edict that a corner should be set apart in each Illam or house of the Nambudiri Brahmins to burn the dead of the family and that they should cut the dead body into parts and then burn the same. This practice continues even today amongst Nambudiri Brahmins.

Sankara then returned to Sringeri. From there he went out on a tour through the eastern coast with a large number of followers. He preached his Advaita philosphy wherever he went. He established the Govardhana Mutt at Puri. He went to Kancheepuram and attacked the Shaktas. He purified the temples. He won over to his side the rulers of the Chola and the Pandya kingdoms. He went to Ujjain and put down the atrocities of the Bhairavas who were shedding human blood. He then proceeded to Dwaraka and established a Mutt there. He then travelled along the course of the Ganges and held religious controversies with great personages.

Sankara's End

Sankara proceeded to Kamarup-the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator, and won victory over him. Abhinava felt his defeat very keenly. He made Sankara suffer from a severe form of piles through black magic.

Padmapada removed the evil effects of the black magic. Sankara became quite alright. He went to the Himalayas, built a Mutt at Joshi and a temple at Badri. He then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas. He became one with the Linga in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year.

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	Sri Adi Sankaracharya
	Sri Satya Sai Baba
	Sri Guruji Viswanath
	Osho
	Sri Ramakrishna Deva
	Swami Sivananda Saraswati
	Sri Sarada Devi
	Swami Vivekananda
	The Mother
	Sri Aurobindo
	Bhagavan Sri Ramana
	Yogi Ramsurat Kumar
	Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi

	Sri J Krishnamurti