This document provides brief biographies of several great Indian saints and poets, including Kabir Das, Tulsi Das, Ravi Das, Rabindranath Tagore, Maharishi Valmiki, and Adi Shankaracharya. It discusses their important works and contributions. For example, it notes that Tulsi Das emphasized devotion to Rama through his poem Ramcharitmanas. It also explains that Adi Shankara consolidated Advaita Vedanta philosophy and established the main currents of thought in Hinduism. The document seeks to honor these spiritual and literary leaders of India.

1. GREAT INDIAN
SAINT
&
POETS
By Asst. Prof H.K ROY

2. KABIR DAS

3. TULSI DAS
• राम नाम मननदीप
धरु जीह देहरीीं द्वार |
• तुलसी भीतर बाहेरहुुँ
जौं चाहसस उजजआर ||
• अर्थ : तुलसीदासजी कहते
हैं कक हे मनुष्य ,यदद तुम
भीतर और बाहर दोनों
ओर उजाला चाहते हो तो
मुखरूपी द्वार की
जीभरुपी देहलीज़ पर राम-
नामरूपी मणिदीप को रखो
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4. RAVI DAS
• अबिगत नाथ ननरंजन देवा।
मैं का जांनं तुम्हारी सेवा।। टेक।।
िांध न िंधन छांऊं न छाया,
तुमहीं सेऊं ननरंजन राया।।1।।
चरन पताल सीस असमांना,
सो ठाकु र कै सैं संपटट समांना।।2।।
ससव सननकाटदक अंत न पाया,
खोजत ब्रह्मा जनम गवाया।।3।।
तोडं न पाती पजौं न देवा,
सहज समाधध करौं हरर सेवा।।4।।
नख प्रसेद जाकै सुरसुरी धारा,
रोमावली अठारह भारा।।5।।
चारर िेद जाकै सुमृत सासा,
भगनत हेत गावै रैदासा।।6।।

5. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
ENDLESS TIME
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom
and fade like flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.
Thy centuries follow each other
perfecting a small wild flower.
We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for
a chance.
We are too poor to be late.
And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man
who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to
the last.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest
thy gate be shut;
but I find that yet there is time.

6. MAHARISHI VALMIKI
• The Ramayana, originally written
by Valmiki, consists of 23,000
Shlokas and 7 cantos (kaṇḍas)
including the Uttara Kanda.

7. ADI SHANKARA ACHARYA
• Shankaracharya is a commonly
used title of heads of monasteries
called mathas in the Advaita
Vedanta tradition. The title derives
from Adi Shankara, an 8th-century
CE reformer of Hinduism. He is
honored as Jagadguru, a title that
was used earlier only to Krishna.
• Adi Shankara was a philosopher and
theologian from India who
consolidated the doctrine of Advaita
Vedanta. He is credited with unifying
and establishing the main currents of
thought in Hinduism.
• Born: 788 AD, Kalady
• Died: 820 AD, Kedarnath

8. The popular view among historians is that there
were four mathas (religious orders):
• The Dakshina Moolamnaya matha (main matha)
at Sringeri Sharada
Peetham in Shringeri, Karnataka.
• The Uttarāmnāya matha (northern matha)
at Jyotir Math in the city of Jyotirmath also
known as Joshimath, Uttarakhand.
• The Pūrvāmnāya matha (eastern matha), or
the Govardhana matha at Puri, Odisha.
• The Paśchimāmnāya matha (western matha), or
the Shāradā Pitha at Dwarka, Gujarat.

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