Sant gadge baba biography books

Sant Gagde Maharaj

Gagde Maharaj with Meher Baba

Born: 23rd February
Died: 21st December

Maharaj met the spiritual teacher Meher Baba several times. Meher Baba indicated that Maharaj was one of his favourite saints and that Maharaj was on the sixth plane of consciousness. Maharaj invited Meher Baba to Pandharpur, India, and on 6 November thousands of people had Maharaj and Meher Baba&#;s darshan.

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While at Deccan College, Merwan formed a dramatic troupe which rehearsed at his uncle Rustom&#;s and aunt Piroja&#;s house on Sachapir Street. The group staged two or three public performances at a local theater with the proceeds donated to charity.

Merwan and his friends would sometimes attend kirtan performances – Hindu songs with narration about God or the gurus and saints. Gadge Maharaj was a Hindu saint of the sixth plane, who in his youth wandered in India living off alms, He was later known as a &#;perfect saint&#; because not only did he teach the love o

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Gadge Maharaj

Indian social reformer (–)

Gadge Maharaj (23 February - 20 December ; also known as Sant Gadge Maharaj or Sant Gadge Baba) was an Indian mendicant-saint and social reformer from the Indian state of Maharashtra. He lived in voluntary poverty and wandered to different villages promoting social justice and initiating reforms, especially related to sanitation. He is still revered by the common people in India and remains a source of inspiration for various political parties and non-government organizations.^[1][2][3]

Life and career

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His original name was Debuji Zhingraji Janorkar. He was born in Shendgaon village in present-day Anjangaon Surji Taluka in Amravati District of Maharashtra to a Dhobi OBC Caste farming family.^[4][5][a] A public teacher, he travelled from one place to another wearing his food pan upturned on his head and carrying his trademark broom. When he entered a village, he woul