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Raghavendra Swami - Swami Sivananda

India has produced great Mahatmas in no small number. Their biographies are often being written and rewritten by many. But what for? The sacred lives and teachings of such great men are not mere stories for filling up the pages in newspapers, but they are irresistible appeals for keeping alive the ideals they preached. Their physical sufferings and marvelous achievements have a miraculous effect in influencing the minds of men to move in the path of Dharma.

One such great Mahatma was Raghavendra Tirtha Swami of the 17th century, whose memorable day of disappearance from this mundane world is celebrated in Sravana Krishna Dvitiya every year.

© “Lives of Saints” by Swami Sivananda, published (1999) by The Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar 249 192. Reprinted with permission.

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