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What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

Passed on your ancestors.

Sanatan Dharma culture believes that the universe has been created only by sound and pure light! The soul is the cause of this world! In Sanatan Dharma, some sounds are considered sacred and mysterious, such as temple bells, conch shells, flutes, manjira, and damru! Damru or Dugduggi is a small musical instrument! Damru has been given great importance in Hinduism, Tibetan, and Buddhism!  In Sanatan culture, only two Gods see Damru in their hands, one is Adiyogi Shiva and Lord Dattatreya. In this blog, we will all worship a part of Dattatreya, the supreme supreme God of Guru power. Powers like Damru, Trishul, Lotus, Pash, and Ankush are seen in the hands of many Gods and Goddesses. Now the trident and damru are also seen in the hand of Lord Shiva. However, the Damru Trident in the hand of each deity has a great difference in the energy of all. The power installed in each trident and every damru is different. How does the Yogini Shakti work on the sound of Damru, and all the Yogini powers of Dattatreya Ji are controlled by that sound? I will write it in detail in another blog.

Ancient moments like RSS

Sripada Srivallabha is an Indian guru of the Dattatreya Sampradaya (Lineage) who is regarded as an incarnation of Dattatreya. He was born in the early 14th century in Pithapuram, formerly known as Pithikapuram in Andhra. He lived for 30 years and disappeared as a human but still exists in ‘Tejorup’ (Pure energy form).
He is believed to have reincarnated as Nrusimha Saraswati (1378−1459 CE) in Karanja, Maharashtra.
His biography was written by 16th-century kannada-marathi poet Saraswati Gangadhar.

“Guru Chaitra” is written as a conversation between Siddha (who is a disciple of Sri Narasimha Saraswati) and Naamdharak who is listening to him. Guru Charitra is assumed to be written in a village in Karnataka known as Kadaganchi or Kudugunchi. It is possible that the Sanskrit version of the Guru Chaitra was written by Narasimha Saraswati’s disciple, Siddha, and Gangadhar Saraswati translated that into Marathi.  Gangadhar mentions that his ancestor Sayandev was one of the four close disciples of Nrusimha Saraswati. Gangadhar also mentions four generations that passed away between him and his ancestor Sayandev.

This matches with information that Guru Charitra must have been written in the late 16th century, although Vasudevanand Saraswati, alias Tembe Swami, (1854-1914 CE) wrote a Sanskrit version of Sri GuruCharitra later. This Marathi version of Guru Charitra, written during the late 16th century, mentions the first incarnation of Dattatreya as Sripada Srivallabha between chapters 5 and 10. These chapters mention a rich Brahmin trader named Vallabhesh, born in Kasyapa gotra. He vowed to Sripada SriVallabha that he would visit Kuruvapuram, the place where Sripada lived most of his life, and feed 4000 Brahmins if he earned more profits in his business. Later when Vallabhesh earned profits in business, he started towards Kuruvapuram but was attacked by dacoits, who robbed and killed him.

Before collapsing, he shouted ‘Sripada Srivallabha….”
Sripada Srivallabha appeared with a Trishul in his hand and stabbed those dacoits to death. One of those dacoits fell on his feet and begged for mercy.
Sripada gave him Bhasma (holy ash) and made him use it to bring back the dead Vallabhesh, who disappeared. This incident happened in a village called Manthangoud, which is on the way to Kuruvapuram.

This incident was narrated through the lineage of Vallabhesh, and 9 generations later, his descendant, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, born on 1st April 1889 in Kadakurthi village of Nizamabad district of Telangana, went on to start Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Vijayadasami day, which is 27th September 1925 in Nagpur. This is written in Dr. Hedgewar Charitra by N. H. Palkar and English translation, “

India was an ancient civilization, and the freedom struggle was an attempt to re-establish a land for the Hindus after almost 800 years of foreign rule, primarily by the Mughals and then by the British. An army of Muslims invaded and ruled over Hindus, while a bunch of British ruled India because Hindus had degenerated and lacked knowledge of their roots. He was arrested after being released in 1922, he became disgusted with what he believed was the appeasement of Muslims by the Congress during the Khilafat movement.  He believed that this would result in Muslim communalism and, though intended to win them over to the freedom struggle, could, in the long run, sow the seeds of separation. Dr.Hedgewar concluded that all the problems he felt the Hindu community in India faced—subjugation and oppression by ‘foreigners’ in the present and past, provincialism, and untouchability – were a result of an inherent flaw in the Hindu character rather than problems themselves

He felt that the remedy was a cultural organization that would unite Hindus on a common platform and instill among them discipline and national character. In this endeavor, he was blessed by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who was then under house imprisonment in Ratnagiri. The senior Hindu Mahasabha leaders of Nagpur, Dr. B. S. Moonje and Dr. L. V. Paranjpe, actively supported Hedgewar in starting such an organization.
RSS, today, is the world’s largest socio-political organization going by membership count.