Shree Swami Samarth Information


Swami's Appearance

The description of Shri Swami Samarth's appearance has been founded along the vivid descriptions made by close devotees. Though he was picked up in an advanced age, his hide was not wrinkled. He was real tall and his hands were long, straining upward to his knees. His stomach was sticking out and he had wide shoulders. His complexion was fair and pinkish. He had large ears with thin and long earlobes which shook with the slightest motion of his torso. He had long thin feet and toes. He adorned a sacred mark (telecom) on his frontal bone. He invariably put on a codpiece (kaupina). He delivered a fine circle of teeth and a big and deep navel. He invariably wore a Tulasi-rosary (which is very different from Rudraksha) and a crystal (sphatika). He had ear-rings inset with stones.
Teachings
  1. Once having met a supreme master, the seeker should continuously meditate upon his Master, serve him with devotion and pay extreme care to His spiritual advice, equally if every word coming from His lips were a Mantra.
  2. Have a firm belief that it is God alone exists in every seen and unseen thing in this world.
  3. Make your livelihood through sincere efforts.
  4. Whenever you occur across an able guide on the spiritual path to try to acquire as much knowledge and advice from him as possible. No master will share the knowledge of his own, as no farm will yield crops on its own.
  5. While adopting a spiritual practice if you gain spiritual powers, then do not fall prey to the lure of using them to show miracles.
  6. The behavior of the people treading the spiritual path should be virtuous and righteous.
  7. Since the terminal end of all spiritual faiths and sects preaching Divine knowledge is one and the same all sects and faiths are birds of the same feather.
  8. Vedic scriptures composed by seers should be read and retold.
  9. Try to purge your mind too, as you try to hold the external sanctity of the physical structure.
  10. Do actions without expecting any rewards.
Tradition
  1. The mantra of this custom is; Digambara Digambara shripad Vallabh Digambara 
  2. The Siddha Mantra of Shri Swami Samarth is: SHRI SWAMI SAMARTH JAI JAI SWAMI SAMARTH
  3. The biography of Shrivallabh is in the in Shripada Shrivallabha Charitramrut
  4. The biography of Nrusimha Saraswati is in the Gurucharitra.
  5. The biography of Shri Swami Samarth is in the Guruleelamrut.
Death
His torso was claimed on a procession all around Akkalkot. The Swami Maharaj lived mainly at the mansion of his disciple Cholappa, where his samadhi and shrine are at present situated. In the month of Chaitra (April–May) in 1878, the thirteenth day of the dark-half of the lunar month, Shri Swami took samadhi.

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