India is famous in its holy sacraments and values which have transformed the world and empowering people to become more successful people. Numerous saints have emerged over various periods of our country, and a lot of people have embraced their beliefs and have become their faithful followers. These is a list of the most most renowned saints of all time from India with ideologies and thoughts that are believed to be appropriate to be applicable to all times.
1. Ramanuja:
Ramanuja is regarded as one of the founding members in the Bhakti movement. He is considered to be one of the most revered successors to his guru, yamunamuni. The saint has traveled across the nation and finally settled in the tiny capital city Srirangam located in Tamilnadu. He is credited with having set up Vaishnavism with a solid foundation. He is believed to have established the Visistadvaita Siddhanta and been able to be a monism. According to his philosophies the only path to attain salvation is by following the tenets that are Karma, Bhakti and Gyan. He is also believed for having written The Gitbhasya as well as the Sribasya.
2. Chaitanya:
Chaitanya was among the most revered saints in the Bhakti movement. His birthplace was Nawadwip located in Bengal and was formerly called Vishwambhar Mishra. He is among the most important saints who spread Vaishnaviwm throughout Bengal and gained fame with the aid through his Kirtans. He is also believed to have established the School of Theology in Bengal and also preached the faith of intense faith with Hari. The great saint was a lover of Gods Krishna along with Radha and attempted to make their lives more spiritual within the sacred city of Vrindavan. He passed away in Puri which is where he stayed for the rest of his life. Following his passing, his followers organized his teachings and he published his biography, titled Chaitanya Charitamrita.
3. Shirdi Sai Baba
Sai Baba of Shirdi was a famous Indian holy man and spiritual teacher venerated to the utmost by Muslim and Hindu followers. According to his life, we can discern that he preached the importance of achieving the realisation of the self. He was also adamantly opposed to human love for objects that can be destroyed. The entirety of his sermons and teachings focused in forgiveness and love of other people as well as helping others as well as inner peace, contentment and devotion to God. He rebuked discrimination based on religion and caste. The people who worship him believe he is the embodiment of the Hindu God Dattatreya.
4. Tulsidas:
Tulsidas is a Vaishnava poet and saint who is completely dedicated to the his god Rama. He is renowned for writing numerous poems in Sanskrit and his greatest piece can be described as Hanuman Chalisa. Tulsidas lived the majority of his time living in cities like Banaras in the state of Banaras and Ayodhya. He was the founder of his Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple in Varanasi and is believed to be in the first place he saw the god. Tulsidas created his own Ramlila Plays, a folk stage version of the epic poem Ramayana. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Hindi, Indian, and the world literature. Tulsidas and his work have had an enormous influence on Indian art, culture and the society as reflected by the language of the day, which is called vernacular.
5. Surdas:
Surdas was a blind Hindu worshipful poet and singer famous for his poetry in praise of Krishna. His poems expressed his devotion to Krishna. Most of his poems were composed in Braj however, there were some written as other Hindi dialects, like Awadhi. His biography is typically described through the perspective of the Vallabha Sampradaya often referred to by the name of Pustimarga. The Pustimarga is a study of Pustimarga the ritual of singing-worship that relies upon Surdas along with others Astachap poets’ works. Modern academics are studying the relationship with Surdas as well as Vallabha.
6. Kabir:
Born close to Benaras He lived the normal life of a family man. The purpose of his Ramananda guru was to propagate an ideology of love, which would unite individuals of all creeds and castes. He stressed the unity of God and uses a variety of names, such as Rama, Hari, and Allah. He was vehemently against Hindu as well as Muslim practices. He was adamantly opposed to the system of caste, specifically the practice of non-touchability. But he was no social reformer. instead, he focused on individual development under the guidance of the spiritual guru. Dohas and sakhi poetry remain in Bijak. After Kabir’s death Muslim followers organized themselves in Maghar as well as Surat Gopala gathered the Hindu followers into a group that was centered in Banaras.
7. Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa was born on February 18, 1836 in a small village called Kamarpukur which was located several miles from Kolkata in a humble Brahmin family. Gadadhar was his name for his youth was a favorite among the people who lived there. He is widely considered to be the greatest saint of the 19th century. It was the greatest of the mystic art and a true yoga teacher. He believed in Kali, the Goddess of God. Kali and believed himself to be an modern-day Lord Vishnu however, the guru never declared the existence of this.
8. Guru Nanak
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji was the first Guru of Sikhism which is thought to be an monotheistic faith with Muslim as well as Hindu roots. His teachings, which are reflected in hymns of devotion, many of which are still in existence that emphasized the reincarnation of oneself by meditating on the divine name. He is particularly revered by contemporary Sikhs as the savior and the greatest creator of Punjabi devotional hymnody.
9. Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh, the nineteenth and last Sikh Guru. He was the ninth and final Sikh Guru. He was a poet, warrior and philosopher. Following the time that Emperor Aurangzeb murdered his father Guru Tegh Bahadur, his formal appointment as the head of the Sikhs in 1675, at 9 years old. His most notable contributions to Sikhism was the formation of the Sikh warrior group known as Khalsa in 1699, and the creation of the Five Ks, the five religious articles that were worn by Khalsa Sikhs all the time.
10. Mahavira
Mahavira was the creator of Jainism and was the 24-th Tirthankara (Supreme teacher). Mahavira was the spiritual heir in the lineage of 23rd Tirthankara, Parshvanatha. Mahavira is born around the 6th century BCE into an elite royalty Jain family from the ancient India. His parents are Trishala as well as Siddhartha. They were devotees who were lax to Parshvanatha. At around thirty, Mahavira left all material things and left his home in pursuit of spiritual awakening. He ended up turning into an ascetic. Mahavira was a meditative guru and extreme austerities for a period of twelve and a half months before reaching Kevala Jnana (omniscience).
It is believed that the Indian subcontinent has been blessed with several saints, apart from this list who have contributed to the history of the Indian subcontinent and a remarkable set of teachings for the world. All saints are humanists and their beliefs help improve the quality of society.
