Foot Prints of Great soul
Swami Samarth has told his background in very mysterious manner as “Main person, Banyan tree, Datta Nagar, main, main”. Not only his background but also his whole life seems to be mysterious. It is difficult to understand and find his background, his native place, from where did he came, and his parent’s information. Many of his closed devotees tried to find it out.
Swami Samarth was staying at Chintopant Tol’s house. At that time, while chitchatting Chintopant causally asked Maharaj, “Were you family person? Maharaj spontaneously answered, “My cast is chambhar. My mother is of mahar community and my father also.” And then he started laughing. After that gentle man named Karve asked same question. Then Maharaj said, ““I am a Yajurvedi Brahmin. My name is Nrushimhabhan. I belong to the Kashyap Gotra, and my Zodiac sign is Meen (Pisces). If you ask me again, you will get shoe beating.
Astrologer Nana Rekhi had prepared the horoscope of Shree Swami Samarth. Shree Swami Samarth had approved this. According to the horoscope, ‘Nrushimhabhan’ was given as his nick name. In the horoscope, the sign of the Zodiac is shown as Mesha (Aries) and Meen (spices) as lagna rashi. When Swami stated his zodiac as ‘Meena’(Pisces), it is highly possible that Shree Swamiji wanted to state the Meena Rashi (Pisces sign) itself as the Lagna Rashi. In the horoscope Yajurvedi Brahmin and Kashyap Gotra is also mentioned. After seeing horoscope Shree Samarth said,” Play music.” Shree Swamiji placed his hand on the right hand of Rekhi and displayed the Vishnupad in blue color on his palm. This mark remained on his palm until the end. Shree Swamiji then said, “I have given you my Atmalinga.”
Shree Swami is incarnation of Lard Datta. Lord Datta’s incarnations are Shree Datta, Shree Vallabh Swami, Shree NruSimhaSaraswati and then Shree Swami Samarth. All his devotees worship him considering incarnation of Lord Datta. Shree NruSimhasaraswati’s place is Gandgapaur. Many Datta devotees visit that place. But since when Swami Maharaj arrived in Akkalkot many devotees have started visiting Akkalkot. A Brahmin from western Maharashtra had made a promise to Shreeguru, Narasinha Saraswati, that if is blessed by baby son then he would perform his thread ceremony at Ganagapur. By the kind grace of Sriguru, the Brahmin got a son. To fulfill his promise he started to go to Ganagapur. On the way to Ganagapur, when he reached Akkalkot he realized that he had spent all his money and there was nothing left to go ahead. Therefore, at Akkalkot he approached Shree Swami Samarth and prayed to him “Now going to Ganagapur to fulfill my promise is beyond my reach. You are the incarnation of Lord Dattatrey. Kindly allow me to fulfill my promise here itself”. Shree Swami accepted his request and the Brahmin performed his Son’s thread ceremony in Akkalkot itself.
Maharaj was surrounded by three types of people. Some people were selfless devotees. Some people were offering services to him without selfishness. And some were used to come to pass their time. Many people used to visit him. Shree Swami Maharaj treated his devotees according to their spiritual aptitude and their motto. Swami treated everybody according to the nature of devotee. For intellectual people he treated intelligently and to stupid’ stupidly.
No one has seen Samarth as sleeping. But he used to cover himself in blanket. From 2:00 Am he used to sing ‘abhangas’, ‘shlokas’(Verses). Hence people came to know that Maharaj has waked up. That time people used to ask him their queries. Maharaj used answer all their questions till dawn. In the morning when people started coming he used to start his normal routine. Then there is no guarantee that everybody will get correct answer. Many times answer would be irrelevant.
Regarding his final journey Sri Swamiji would give indications in advance. Once in Sagar village, in the morning he said to his devotee Balappa, “I want to go higher and far away. Are you ready to provide service to me?” He went and sat in the Jangam Muth of Akkalkot. That time Thakudas buwa was singing kirtan[God’s song]. Bawdekar Puranik was also present there. Large idol of Lord Shiva of Jangam belonging to the Lingayat community is in the muth. He told the Muth’s attendant to bring dry cowdung cakes and create a sacred fire on the ‘Shivalinga’. Seeing this act of Sri Swamiji Lingayat devotees became furious and started shouting in anger but kept silent seeing the divine form of Sri Swamiji. The sacred fire was very intense. The intense heat scorched the stone walls. However, on the next day as per the instructions of Shree Swamiji when the Shivalinga was cleansed it had become exceedingly bright and luminous than it was before. This way Maharaj started giving indications. But people did not understand the meaning behind it. But people came to know that Swamiji is giving bad indications and something bad is going to happen.
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"Fear not , I am always with you!!" AKKALKOT SWAMI SAMARTHA MAHARAJ KI JAI!
Sai baba let your holy lotus feet be our sole refuge.OMSAIRAM
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