Once one great sant had explained that Dharma is like a vast tree, different sampradayas are like its branches, and Adhyatma is its root.
Different Acharyas that take birth from time to time are like the fruits that the tree bears when the right season comes.
Depending upon which direction a branch faces - it takes a different shape, and develops in a different size. But the essence of the tree - the seeds - remain the same and are contained inside the fruits - the Acharyas.
So, as long as we see the tree is flowering and bearing fruits, we can be assured that the tree is healthy and potent.
This thread is to collect sayings, anecdotes, life and deeds of all the great Acharyas of all the various sampradayas of all the hues and shades of Sanatan Dharma.
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Sant Tulsidas ji was very poor, almost a beggar, of which he has described at many places in his writings. But he had become famous, and some of Akbar's Navaratnas were his followers and friends.
As was the tradition, kings used to appoint state poets. Someone, on behalf of Akbar sent for him the invitation to join as the state's protected poet.
He laughed and declined saying:
ham chaakar raghuveer ke, paTo likho darbaar,
ab tulsi kaa hoinge, nara ke mansabdaar!
tulsi apne rama ko, reejh bhajau ke kheejh,
ulto soodho oogi hai, khet pare ko beej!
bane, so raghuvar so bane, kai bigarai bharpoor,
tulsi bane jo aur so, ta banibe me dhoor!
chaatak suta-hi sikhaavahi, aan dharma jina lehu,
mere kula kee bani hai, swati boond so nehu!
(we are servant of raghuveer, with an agreement in that darbaar
now, what will Tulsi join, as a mansabdaar of a man?
Tulsi is now praying, only to his Rama, either with pleasure or in disappointment,
knowing that, good or bad, either ways, the harvest will now grow, seeds have been sown.
if something has to become, it will be a making of raghuveer, if not, then all will be lost,
but if Tulsi has to become 'something' through somebody else, he sends dust to such becoming.
Chaatak-bird teaches its offsprings, "dont ever accept other dharma,
such is the tradition of my family, our love is only with the drops of swaati nakshatra, none else.")
Different Acharyas that take birth from time to time are like the fruits that the tree bears when the right season comes.
Depending upon which direction a branch faces - it takes a different shape, and develops in a different size. But the essence of the tree - the seeds - remain the same and are contained inside the fruits - the Acharyas.
So, as long as we see the tree is flowering and bearing fruits, we can be assured that the tree is healthy and potent.
This thread is to collect sayings, anecdotes, life and deeds of all the great Acharyas of all the various sampradayas of all the hues and shades of Sanatan Dharma.
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Sant Tulsidas ji was very poor, almost a beggar, of which he has described at many places in his writings. But he had become famous, and some of Akbar's Navaratnas were his followers and friends.
As was the tradition, kings used to appoint state poets. Someone, on behalf of Akbar sent for him the invitation to join as the state's protected poet.
He laughed and declined saying:
ham chaakar raghuveer ke, paTo likho darbaar,
ab tulsi kaa hoinge, nara ke mansabdaar!
tulsi apne rama ko, reejh bhajau ke kheejh,
ulto soodho oogi hai, khet pare ko beej!
bane, so raghuvar so bane, kai bigarai bharpoor,
tulsi bane jo aur so, ta banibe me dhoor!
chaatak suta-hi sikhaavahi, aan dharma jina lehu,
mere kula kee bani hai, swati boond so nehu!
(we are servant of raghuveer, with an agreement in that darbaar
now, what will Tulsi join, as a mansabdaar of a man?
Tulsi is now praying, only to his Rama, either with pleasure or in disappointment,
knowing that, good or bad, either ways, the harvest will now grow, seeds have been sown.
if something has to become, it will be a making of raghuveer, if not, then all will be lost,
but if Tulsi has to become 'something' through somebody else, he sends dust to such becoming.
Chaatak-bird teaches its offsprings, "dont ever accept other dharma,
such is the tradition of my family, our love is only with the drops of swaati nakshatra, none else.")