A short biography of Shree Sadguru Ramanand Beedkar Maharaj

The most ardent disciple of
Akkalkot Niwasi Shree Swami Samarth.

Meeting with the Ruler of Gwalior

After this, Shree Beedkar Maharaj desired to meet the ruler of the then Gwalior State and he went to Gwalior. At Gwalior Station, by using shrewdness and good judgment, he kept all his boxes containing incense sticks and perfumes at the station and managed to get a special sanction for paying taxes in part, whenever the boxes were being taken out from the station and thereby saved money.

Again for a personal meeting with the ruler of Gwalior, he planned for a feat to attract the attention of the ruler just as he did at Baroda. There was one open ground (Gorakhi Maidan) in front of the palace of the ruler of Gwalior. He took three boxes of incense sticks and started burning them in the evening. The fragrance from the incense sticks spread everywhere and reached up to the palace. The ruler was surprised and sent for Shree Beedkar Maharaj. Shree Beedkar Maharaj entered the palace and stood before the ruler and after paying due respect he said, “I am coming from Beed. My noble ancestors had served under this Government and in the honour of your Majesty, I have burnt all these incense sticks”. By hearing this penetrating reply, the ruler of Gwalior was very much pleased and sanctioned not only a first grade ration to Shree Beedkar Maharaj but also arranged to purchase all the boxes of incense sticks and perfume from him.

Thus Shree Beedkar Maharaj started getting a lot of respect and gifts from the royal court and this irritated a number of mischievous people in Gwalior. In order to lower his respect in the eyes of the ruler of Gwalior, these people hatched a plan and invited Shree Beedkar Maharaj for a feat and fed him opium and other intoxicating things in his food. But Shree Beedkar Maharaj was saved from this danger and by his skill and cleverness he exposed this secret plan of these mischievous people in the royal court. Pleased by this, the ruler favoured him with more gifts.

Shree Beedkar Maharaj also earned a lot of respect and gifts by his cleverness and skill from the royal courts of Jaipur, Satara and Akkalkot. He also managed to sell a lot of his goods of perfumes and incense sticks in these royal courts.