Shri Swami Samarth (also called Sri Akkalkot Swami Samarth) is considered as extension of the fifteenth century incarnation of Lord Dattatreya, namely Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati.
Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati (1378 −1458) is the Purna Avatar of Lord Dattatreya (As per "Shripad Shrivallabha Charitra" he is second avatar of Lord Dattatreya).
In a place called Karanja Nagar which is modern Lad-Karanja or karanja (Maharashtra Vidbaraba region, there lived a pious Brahmin couple, Madhava and Ambabhavani, in the 13th century. Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati was born to this God-fearing & religious couple.
The child (Narasimha Saraswati) was unique in the sense that, he was chanting only 'Aum' (OM - the Hindu holy nirgun mantra) since his birth. However, until he was 7 he did not utter any other word other than OM, so his parents were worried about his speech ability. However, he showed by hand gestures that after his Upanayana (Munja - Bratabandha or the sacred thread bearing ceremony) he will be able to speak. In fact after his munja was performed he was able to speak all the holy Vedas (the Holiest Hindu scriptures) and even started delivering lectures on it. This was remarkable for a 7 year old child and many senior learned Brahmins in the village started coming to him for learning the Vedas to the great astonishment of all the learned people.
Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati stayed at Ganagapur for a long time. He performed many miracles during his stay to help his devotees. After a visit with a Muslim king (Sultan) of Bedar (also explained in Shree Gurucharitra - who is possibly Allauddin-II of the Bahamani Sultanate) Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati decided to leave to Kardali forests to perform Tapasya (penance.)
Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati gave his "Nirgun Padukas" to his disciples and devotees, before leaving for the Kardali forests for his tapasys. Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati’s disciples prepared a floating seat of flowers for him on which he sailed against the current of the river Patalganga and disappeared in Kardali forests.
A learned ascetic named Shree Krishna Saraswati Swami, initiated Narasimha Saraswati into Sanyasashram (Asceticism – described as a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals) and gave him the name, Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati.
Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati performed rigorous tapasya (penance) on the Shree Shail mountain in the Kardali forests for nearly 150 years. After this he took an extensive pilgrimage, covering many places, now known as Jawa, Sumatra, Indonesia, China etc., relieved many people from their miseries, and guided them on the spiritual path.
Finally, he came to the ranges of Himalayas where he enlightened many devotees. Later he sat under a Deodar tree for another tapasya (penance). This Tapasya (penance) in the Himalayas lasted for nearly 250 years, but a woodcutter unknowingly axed the anthill enveloping the body of Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati. This resulted in the break in Tapasya and Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati then left for an extensive travel throughout the Indian sub-continent guiding his devotees.
'Shri Guru Charitra' is the life of 'Shri Guru Dattatreya' (Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh Incarnate). This is the biography of Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati, that gives us the details of his work in guiding the devotees and the various miracles that he performed to help the devotees.
It was originally written in Marathi by one Saraswati Gangadhar, whose ancestor Sayamdeo had personally lived and served with devotion, Shri Guru Narasinha Saraswati, about 500 years ago.
This volume is regarded as a greatly divine, versatile, a blessing one and is placed with images of Gods and adored in almost all brahmins' houses. It is much respected and is very popular like Vedas, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Bhagwat and other puranas in sanskrit and Dnyaneshwari, Dasbodh, Eknathi Bhagwat etc. in Marathi. In Shri Gurucharitra Chapter 11 onwards is the description of life story of Shrimad Narasimha Saraswati.
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