Gulabrao Maharaj (1881–1915) was a blind Hindu saint from Maharashtra, India. He has written many devotional articles within a short period. His birth name was Gulab Gundoji Mohod.
LIFE
Gulabrao Maharaj was born in a village near Amravati, Maharashtra. After the death of his mother, he was brought up by his grandmother.
He was the disciple of Shri Dhyaneshwar Maharaj and has become a great saint through his blessings.
Though he was a blind man, he has got great knowledge in devotional texts and contains extraordinary intelligence and extraordinary memory and good writing skills.
He has done deep meditation at his younger age and was found in a deep Samadhi stage.
He was an expert in writing poems at the age of sixteen. He was married, and even after that, he was involved in spiritual matters and doing meditation.
Though he was from a lower caste, he got many Brahmin disciples. He was aware of the vedas and even without reading the vedas, he got the knowledge through his self-realization.
IMPORTANCE
He has respected the learned scholars and discussed with them on various topics of Hinduism.
He has won several times in religious debates, which was held between him and pundits regarding the sciences.
He was an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna, and always praises him with his superb songs and dedicated his life towards worshipping him.
Saint Gulabrao Maharaj has become more popular after his Samadhi. His disciples are known to be the great saints. He still guides the people even after his death by his holy writings.
CONCLUSION
A great devotee of Lord Krishna, who possess high spiritual knowledge, was well known for his great intelligence and learning ability. He was respected by everyone and treated in a proper manner. He was a kind and soft natured person and does not hurt anybody by his words. He treated all the other people as the avatars of Lord Krishna, and given proper respect to them. He mesmerised the people through his pleasing smile and by his divine talks.He asked the people to think about Lord Krishna and to concentrate him with pure bhakti within their short life span period, in order to prevent the occurrence of re-births.
Let us worship this great saint and be blessed.
“OM SREE GULABRAO MAHARAJ NAMAHA”
“JAI KRISHNA”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR