Guru CharitraDr. V.R. Prabhu The Two Incarnations Of Lord DattatreyaThe Dattatreya Sampradaya Has Kept Alive The Eternal Principles Of Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Divine Love And Non-Violence In Bharat For Thousands Of Years. It Extends Back In Time To The Very Beginning Of The Human Race And Over Thousands Of Years This Sampradaya Produced Other Sampradayas Like The Shaiva And Vishnu Sampradayas, To Name Only Two. As The Other Sampradyas Kept Increasing In Number, The Dattatreya Sampradya Was Largely Forgottren By The Laity In Virtually The Whole Of Northern Bharat.The Revival Of The Datta Sampradaya, In The Last Millenium Was Largely Due To Sri Sripad Sri Vallabha And Sri Narasimha Saraswati. The Guru Charitra Is The Biography Of These Two Incarnations Of Lord Dattatreya. This Text Has Been Used For The Last 300 Years To Revive Our Lost Vedic Heritage. Besides Many Lost Rituals Were Revived By Sri Narasimha Saraswati And Are Recounted In This Text. |
Contents
The cause for Sri Hari taking incarnations on earth | 3 |
Incarnation of Sripada Sriyallabha | 5 |
Brahmin | 13 |
The holy pilgrimage places of Bharat | 15 |
The fruits of deyotion to the Guru | 16 |
The blockheaded youth metamorphosed into a great Pundit | 17 |
The poor brahmin finds a treasure | 18 |
Qiuru Naths showering of special grace on the YoginiGanas and Ganganujas darshan of Kasi Prayaga and Gaya the holy triple Kshetras | 19 |
Rudhrabhisheka Mahima | 33 |
y edic injunctions of mans duties and obligations | 36 |
Grihasta Dharmas W hat is to be obsemed and what is to | 37 |
ayoided The Dos and the Donts | 31 |
Feeding of thousands of people with but a small measureful of rice | 35 |
The barren woman past her sixties bears children | 38 |
Deadwood puts forth Twigs and grows into tree | 39 |
The unflinching deyotion of Sayamdey to Gurunath | 41 |
Qangadhars wife getting riddance from the persecution by the BrahminQihost through Guru Naths grace | 20 |
The reyiyal of the dead boy The Gurusthan Mahima | 21 |
The adyent of Guru Nath at Ganagapur | 22 |
The BramhaRakshasa gets liberation | 23 |
Sri Narasimha Saraswati confers the yiswaroopa Darsana on Triyikrama Bharati | 24 |
The pride and conceit of the two foolish pundits | 25 |
The infinite glory of the 2 edas and their true purport | 26 |
The Harijans chanting of the SZedic Mantras and humbling the conceit of the foolish pundits | 27 |
Actions and their c nse uences The la f cau and ff | 28 |
The Significance and Power of Yibhuti Holy Ash | 29 |
aira a B dha i in of hil s hical c ns lati n to a woman who was bemoaning her husbands death | 30 |
The supreme power of chastity | 31 |
Reyiying to life the dead husband of the young woman | 32 |
Somayara y rata Mahima | 35 |
The power of the Rudraksha and the merit one earns by wearing it on the body | 28 |
Lord yiswanaths grace on Twasta | 42 |
Ananta Padmana ha rata Mahima | 43 |
The weayer Tantukus pilgrimage to Srisaila | 44 |
The leprosy of Nandi Sarma cured completely | 45 |
The poetdeyotee of Lord Sri Kalleshwara | 46 |
GuruNath presents himself at many houses in different yillages at one and the same time to accept Bhiksha | 47 |
The farmerdeyotees rich hamest | 48 |
The holiness and power of Qanagapur | 49 |
The Mahaprasthan | |
Reyiew 53 Epilogue | |
Appendix I | |
Appendix 2 | |
Appendix 3 | |
Appendix 4 | |
Common terms and phrases
Akkalkot All-merciful Ananta asked Aswatha tree Avataar bath Bhasma bhiksha birth blessed body brahmin Bramha chanting Chapter of Sri child confluence darshan death devotion Dharma disciples divine ever-responsive Guru Nath feet find fire first flowers flowing fulfilled Ganagapur Glory Gods Gokarna grace Guru Charitra describing Guru Nath Guru’s holy husband Inana incarnations Karma Kashi Kaundinya king Krishna Krishna river Linga lived Lord Dattatreya Lord Shiva Mahima Mantra merit mother Namdharak Nana Narahari narrated Nath’s Nawab offered Omnipresent one’s Padukas pilgrimage Pradakshina prayed Puja pundits Purusha Rakshasa Ravana realised responsive Guru Nath Rishi river Rudraksha sacred Sahagamana Samaradhana Sangam Sanyasi Sati Satya Sai Baba Sayamdev Shirdi Saibaba Shivalinga Siddha Siddha Yogi Siddhamuni sins spiritual Sri Guru Charitra Sri Narasimha Saraswati Sri Satya Sri Swami Samarth Sripada Sri Vallabha started Tapasvi Teertha told Trivikrama Bharati Upanayanam Vallabha Vamadeva Vedas Vedic Vishnu Vrata wife woman worship Yuga