Devraha Baba

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Devraha Baba
Deoraha Baba's
Personal
Born
Deoria, India
Died19 June 1990[1]
Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
Resting placeVrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
ReligionHindu
NationalityIndian
Organization
TempleKuti Mandir Ram janki marg(Basti), Sugriv Qila (Ayodhya)
Senior posting
Based inIndia
SuccessorSri Purushottamacharyaji, Devdasji (Bade Sarkar), Devraha Hans Baba

Devraha Baba was an Indian Siddha Yogi saint who lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura. He was known as "ageless Yogi".

Life

Little is known about the early life of Devraha Baba, beyond that in the first half of the 20th century he visited Maiel, a town 20 km south west of

Tara Tarini
shakti Peetha in Ganjam (Odisha), locals addressed him by the name of Chamatkari Baba. Even today, the priests of Maa Tara Tarini Shakti Peetha remember his miracles during his visit to Maa's Peetha. Once Devraha Baba also attested to it in an Interview with All India Radio.

Devraha Baba was a hermit from Vrindavan.

darshan of him.[6] He received visits from politicians seeking his blessings at the time of general elections, including Indira Gandhi, Buta Singh,[6] and Rajiv Gandhi.[7] Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi visited his ashram on the eve of the 1989 elections.[8] He used to bless the devotees with his feet.[9]

He lived on a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) wooden platform near the river and wore a small deerskin.[10] A barricade of wooden planks hid his semi-naked body from his devotees, and he came down only to bathe in the river.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ "Baba in the report who makes Congress squirm". The Indian Express. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Personalities: Devraha Baba". Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ^ Cohen (2000), p. 284.
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  5. ^ "Devraha Baba's indictment enrages seers in Ayodhya". The Times of India. 2 December 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  6. ^ a b Cohen (2000), pp. 283–285.
  7. ^ Dasgupta, Swapan (11 December 2009). "Beyond the Old Books – Modern India and the discourse of faith". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
  8. ISBN 9780670049554
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  9. ISBN 9781136298066
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  10. ISBN 978-0141007649
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  11. ^ Crossette, Barbara (22 November 1989). "India to Begin Voting; Today on Fate of the Nation and the House of Nehru". The New York Times.

References

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