The life and the message of Shri Manik Maharaj, has numerous similitudes with the life of Lord Dattatreya. Master Dattatreya himself, out of sympathy took drop as Shri Manik Prabhu Maharaj for foundation of Dharma (exemplary nature). At the season of Shri Prabhu's introduction to the world, there won the religious contempt, social imbalance and an aggregate social bedlam. The seekers of genuine information were in a befuddled perspective and kept running from column to post looking for otherworldly comfort.
Birth and early life:
In a town called Ladwanti, close to the town of Kalyan, in the past condition of Hyderabad, a kid was destined to a devout couple, Shri Manohar Naik and Smt. Bayadevi on 22nd December 1817, the birthday celebration of Lord Dattatreya. They had in every one of the three children and one little girl. Amongst the children, the center one was the person who was to leave a mark on the world so as to come. He was named Manik.
As he grew, every last one were pulled in to the kid, who was caressed by his folks as well as by his neighbors. His tricks were charming to everybody. He began gathering a gathering of his companions and meandering the slopes and dales in the region of the town. He was, figuratively speaking, an offspring of nature, all the more near the trees, the breeze, the flying creatures and the blossoms.
Over the span of play He would once in a while, calmly unveil his godliness. Once, when one of His companions, Govinda, neglected to turn up for play for two or three days, Manik went to his home to enquire after him. Touching base there He was educated that Govinda has passed away in the wake of misery from fever for a couple days. Manik advised Govinda's mom to quit lamenting, as her child was alive. Beyond any doubt enough, when Govinda's mom shouted to him to go out and play with Manik, he emerged as though out of a profound sleep. All present were excited and astounded at this event. This and such different events brought about his notoriety to spread far and wide.
In general notwithstanding, Manik carried on in such a joyful way, to the point that the individuals from his family were concerned. It was, accordingly, chosen that at seven years old his string service ought to be performed, so that an awareness of other's expectations may sunrise on this wayward kid, who, it showed up, liked to meander as opposed to sit and read. At the point when the hallowed string was being presented on Him and the holy Gayatri psalm was being recounted in his ears, just like the custom, an interesting thing occurred. Manik carried on as if this was unnecessary for him and he thoroughly understood Gayatri and the noteworthiness of the unceasing sound, AUM. He recounted the song unaided, to the colossal amazement of the amassed individuals.
Manik was again allowed to meander in the forested areas. When he was sent to the school, his consideration was to the open sky, the cool wind, the stirring leaves and the trilling of the feathered creatures. He got a kick out of the chance to look for educators in the lap of nature, listen to Nature's common training as opposed to the fake or devised lessons in the classroom. It was not amazing along these lines, that he was given to escaping the classrooms and meandering in the forested areas. Nature turned into his classroom and his exceptionally Self turned into his educator. His receptivity got to be sharp, knowledge sharp and musings synchronized. Manik's folks agonized over his wanderings disregarding the formal instruction sent him to his uncle's place.
Manik's uncle earnestly felt that this kid ought to grow up like a typical youngster and ought to be prepared and taught to take up the obligations of life. He was profoundly disappointed by the disappointment of his measures in sending this kid to class. He then felt that job may teach an awareness of other's expectations in him and along these lines got him delegated as an assistant in the octroi check post on the edges of Kalyan town.
From that point onwards, his adventure on the pathless way was inside the folds of Mother Nature. As he took in the new, unconditioned climate, another flood of mindfulness came over him, spreading before him the comprehensiveness of the Divine nearness in all that he saw, touched or listened. One by one the riddles, since quite a while ago hid, came to be uncovered to him.
Shri Krishna's confirmation appeared to reverberate in each activity of his. "He who see Me all over the place and sees all in Me, I am not lost to him nor is he lost to Me" (Bhagavad Gita VI.30). Thus inside himself and without himself, in nature, in animals, in trees and streams, slopes and dales, in the savvy and in addition in the silly, in the holy person and also the miscreant, in the individuals who love and in the individuals who detest, he saw just the same Divine pith, the Brahma.
In wildernesses, slopes and woods:
The relatives acknowledged the unusual conduct of Shri Manik, it regardless made nervousness in their brains, particularly when he would meander from spot to put without notification. Shri Manik was taken a gander at with due appreciation. An air wrapped his identity.
He wanted to stay in isolation and alone focusing on the Supreme Self. He went to adjacent places, for example, Manthal and particularly to Ambilkunda or Amritkunda. Shri Prabhu told his relatives in most empathetic words about His Mission in life. "With the Grace of Shri Dattatreya I took birth in your family. Your yearning for a tyke was appropriately satisfied. I stayed with you the length of it was important. Since I have been started in Brahmavidya, intelligence of Brahman, My life is committed to humankind. I will now need to meander from spot to place to spread the message of the Compassionate Datta, Datta-Dayaghana, so that the wretchedness of individuals can be eased. Accordingly, it is useless to lament for my misfortune. I will ever be with you. Do a reversal to your home and abandon me to satisfy my Mission. At whatever point and wherever one needs me, I will come. This is sure; this is my guarantee."
In Search of the Self
Shri Prabhu was extraordinarily pulled in to the slopes around Manthal where nature was tranquil and quiet and favorable for fellowship with the Supreme Self. He lived for a long time inundated in the ecstatic condition of acknowledgment. Some time he would descend from the slopes and wander around the town. His conduct was some so not the same as expected lifestyles, that individuals would disregard him just as he was crazy. The savvy ones, in this way, perceiving Shri Prabhu as an extraordinary Yogi respected and loved Him, which Shri Prabhu acknowledged as if this was characteristic for Him. In any case, in the meantime like a straightforward, unassuming offspring of nature, He would disseminate the things got by him among the collected persons.
Frequently when in profound euphoria, He would sing and move and a large number of his bhajans were the result of such elate dispositions. When He sang these bhajans, which in Marathi are known as "Abhanga" he was by all accounts indistinguishable from "Datta-Dayaghana" his picked god.
Shri Prabhu moved from spot to place like a free feathered creature or breeze, which knew no limits. In the chest of Mother Nature, he had all the fulfillment and satisfaction which the universe of the connection and belonging would not give.
Amid one of his wanderings, he touched base at Chalakpur, a residential area close Kalyan and stayed at Lord Hanuman sanctuary for couple of months. Individuals thronged in thousands for His darshan and to look for His favors. The whole environment was surcharged with religious intensity. Bayadevi, Shri Prabhu's mom and Nrisimha, His sibling approached Chalakpur. All accomplished the flooding Grace of Shri Prabhu and nobody did a reversal flat broke. Such was the sympathy of Shri Manik Prabhu. Shri Manik Prabhu further continued to Mailar, which is one of the old heavenly places. Master Shiva is worshiped here as Marthanda Bhairava and is likewise loved locally as Khandoba. Amid this period, his acclaim as an Avatar of Shri Dattatreya spread further in the encompassing zones. Later Shri Prabhu left Mailar with some of his nearby partners to visit Holy places like Parali-Vaijanatha, Tuljapur, Pandharpur and so on. From Pandharpur he went to visit Shri Junglee Maharaj at Poona and from that point ahead to Girnar to have fellowship with Guru Shri Datta, the humane one. Sourcing His energy from the Primal source, He set out further to Gangotri, Haridwar, Badari, Kedar, Prayag, Varanasi, Gaya, Puri, Mahur, Tirupati, Gangapur and to numerous Holy waterway banks and slopes in transit. This travel set up in Him the exceptional sentiment all-invading nature of his Self and the appearance of the Supreme Brahma in everything which he saw, touched, heard and relaxed.
At long last he came to Kalyan, the place where he grew up. He chose to live there for quite a while to consider the progressions to offer shape to his central goal, for the time had come when the initial step was to be taken.
Some confused Mullas, who could neither comprehend nor digest the notoriety of Shri Prabhu in their visually impaired universality, chose to counter the impact of Shri Prabhu's message on the general population, amongst whom numerous were likewise Muslims. With a perspective to humiliate Shri Prabhu, they carried some plate secured with shawls, pompously loaded with blessings. They needed to humiliate him and make him look at irrelevant without flinching of his aficionados. They, consequently, surreptitiously acquired meat the plates rather than organic products and so forth and offered the plates to Shri Prabhu with a bogus affectation of dedication. Be that as it may, from a Yogi nothing is covered up and nothing can be covered up. He saw through their amusement but then, generous acknowledged their offerings by touching the plates. He then requested that the substance be disseminated among the amassed people groups as Prasad (favored sustenance). At the point when the shawl was expelled what each one found was products of the soil.
MANIK NAGAR
The time and place chose by Shri Prabhu for setting up the profound focus close Humnabad appeared to be critical and also perfect. Those were the harried times, both politically and religiously. He chose the conjunction of the two streams for setting up his profound focus, as though to accentuate that he needed to bring the two groups (Hindus and Muslims) together. In his visionary personality he saw these two surges of extraordinary confidence meet up and live of peace and comprehension. How prophetic his vision was can be seen by the way that even today both the Hindus and the Muslims run to Maniknagar every year, to respect the colossal author of the Universal Truth, the SAKALAMATA.
Initially, a little hovel was developed to set up the GADI, or the Spiritual Seat, which so as to come was to be connected with the living soul of Shri Manik Prabhu Maharaj. Sitting on the Gadi, he would offer Darshan to gathering of people and His exceptionally Darshan would give peace and happiness to all who went to Maniknagar. Shri Prabhu's mom, who had till then continued detachment from her child, came to Maniknagar with whatever is left of the family.
In the Durbar, the general population assembled would relax in the quality and the generous beauty of Shri Prabhu. The whole environment would be surcharged with profound magnificence. Shri Prabhu would cast his empathetic look on all, making everyone take part in the delight, which he was encountering.
Individuals from far and close would accompany their questions and Shri Prabhu, despite the fact that he had not got formal training in the sacred texts than the logicians in his Durbar and could clear all questions without breaking a sweat. Once in a while he would answer even before the inquiries were inquired. Such was his power, intelligence and otherworldly knowledge. The effortless nearness of Shri Prabhu that his extremely Darshan would alleviate all the wretchedness of a man.
He treated all lovers alike and needed genuine dedication than outward starkness reverberating the expressions of Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita (IX.26) "Whosoever offers to Me, with commitment a leaf, a bloom, an organic product, or water, that offering of affection, of the unadulterated heart, I acknowledge".
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