TUKARAM CHAITANYA: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Near Nanded (A city in the state of Maharashtra in India); there is a small place called Yehelgaon. There lived an extremely pious and illustrious Deshastha Yajurvedi Brahmin couple named Kashinathpant and Parvati. They did not have an issue.

After penance for some years; Parvati gave birth on Kartiki Ekadashi of shaka 1745 i.e. roughly 1823 AD; to a bright son as per the promise of Deity Shri Dattatreya, who had assured her in dream; that he would incarnate as her son.

They named him Tukaram.

Later he was named Tukaram Chaitanya by his guru; Swami Chinmayananda of Umarkhed. The other two disciples of Chinmayananda were Gocharswami and Shri Shewalkar.

Tukaram Chaitanya later became the spiritual guru of Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar; around 1860.

The Samadhi of Tukaram Chaitanya is in Yehelgaon and that of Chinmayananda is in Umarkhed.

I never came across any information about the life of Chinmayananda, Gocharswami, Shri Shewalkar, Shri Tukaram Chaitanya and Shri Brahmachaitanya; in any of my curricular books; during my education; till I passed my MD (Physiology).

I have written this small write up as a homage and tribute to Prof. K. V. Belsare; who wrote the biography of Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavlekar; and provided this extremely vital and valuable information to us. It is by virtue of reading this biography (though the ultimate control is of; GOD, cosmic consciousness, or SADGURU); that I got involved in NAMASMARAN and understood that:

1. India is unique in her greatest ever treasure of connection with God (the eternal immortal bliss, the absolute objective truth, the cosmic consciousness); through; thousand of her illustrious sons and daughters; the saints, prophets, seers and yogis.

2. In other words; India’s treasure is; eternal immortal bliss; personified throughout the history; over millennia.

3. The ultimate solace for any inhabitant of the universe; is said to be; the eternal immortal bliss; mentioned above. Nothing else; how much ever hyped; comes to rescue!

4. Hence; when people of the world; get exasperated and exhausted; by religious, intellectual, ideological and political conflicts and indiscriminate violence on the one hand; and indulgence that drains the spirit and erodes from within; on the other; and begin to desperately seek peace and harmony; they would certainly get it; in India.

5. This is also because; even as India may look sick and sultry; and be ridiculed and betrayed by her own inhabitants; from time to time; the places of pilgrimage; spread in nook and corner of India; ooze out and emanate ambrosia of eternal immortal bliss; and provide solace to every visitor; without any kind of discrimination!

6. The seekers of truth from any and every corner of the world; are not only bound to get the ambrosia of eternal immortal bliss, in India; but also; the inspiration of the holistic perspective, policies, plans, programs and their implementation; so much pivotal and vital in individual and universal blossoming i.e. holistic renaissance.