SREE NARAYANA GURU

• Sree Narayana Guru was born at Chempazhanthy in Trivandrum district on 20 August 1856 (Vayalvarathu Veedu)
• He is known as the Father of Kerala Renaissance.
• The parents of Sree Narayana Guru were Madanasan and Kuttiyamma.
• He met Chattampi Swamikal at the Aniyur temple near Chempazhanthy.
• Dr. Palpu was responsible for the connection between Guru and Swami Vivekananda.
• His famous Aruvippuram Consecration (Siva) was in the year 1888.
• S.N.D.P Yogam was founded in 1903 and Guru became the life time President and Kumaranasan as Secretary.
• The Vavoottuyogam started at Aruvippuram is considered as the predecessor of S.N.D.P. Yogam.
• Guru founded a Sarada temple at Varkala in 1915 (1087 Kerala Era) and founded the Advaitasrama at Aluva on the banks of Periyar.
• He gave the mesage ‘‘One caste, One Religion, One God for Man’’ at a conference held at the advaitasrama.
• ‘Atmopadesh Satakam’’, ‘‘Nirvriti Panchakam’’, ‘‘Darsanamala’’, ‘Jatimeemamsa’, ‘Ardhanareeswara Sthothram’ etc are the major works of Guru.
• The famous Sivagiri pilgrim festival conducted on December 30, 31 and January 1 was started by Guru.
• Tagore visited Guru in 1922.
• Gandhiji visited Guru at Sivagiri in 1925.
• Sri Narayana Guru died on 20 September 1928 (1104 Kanni 5) at Sivagiri.

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