Tulsidas

Tulsidas

Although born in a family of great Vedic scholars he became virtually an orphan in his young age and lived in a temple of Hanumanji and became a disciple of Pandit Naraharidas from whom he learnt much of the Vedas and mythology. He was greatly interested in Bhajans and discourses and traveled widely with his Guru at Chitrakut, he is supposed to have the vision of Ram and Lakshman. He wrote in Avadhi (a Hindi dialect) his famous Ram Charit Manas which is also known as the Tulsi Ramayan, which teaches the principles of right living is valid even today. He also wrote several devotional lyrics of which Hanuman Chalisa is the most famous and sung by devotees all over the world.

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