A short biography of Shree Sadguru Ramanand Beedkar Maharaj

The most ardent disciple of
Akkalkot Niwasi Shree Swami Samarth.

Trishulpani Forest

In this stage of journey while traversing through the Trishulpani forest, Shree Beedkar Maharaj had to undergo a lot of obstacles. It was impossible for him to go ahead. Ultimately he started invoking continuously the name of his sadguru Shree Swami Samarth, and surrendered himself at the feet of his sadguru with an appeal, for the successful completion of the Parikrama of the Narmada River. In the morning, Mata (mother) Narmada in the form of a milkmaid, came there and offered him a pot of milk. No sooner he drank that milk, all his pains disappeared. He started feeling very fresh. He bowed himself before the milkmaid and went ahead. On the way a hypocritical ascetic stopped him with a sword, raised to strike him. But to the great surprise of that hypocritical ascetic, the sword became blunt by the mere sight of Shree Beedkar Maharaj.

In the next stage of the journey, he met one great yogi by name Shree Vitthal Chaitanya, who helped Shree Beedkar Maharaj as a road guide, in his further journey. Shree Vitthal Chaitanya, also taught Shree Beedkar Maharaj, the art of overcoming the effects of heat and cold by Yoga.

In the next stage of the journey, the rich and generous people who normally used to help the travellers of Narmada River with useful things, met Shree Beedkar Maharaj, and gave him the wooden slippers and a drinking vessel, made from a Kamandalu (gourd). It was only due to the repeated insistence by the donor that Shree Beedkar Maharaj accepted the same. By seeing this unselfish nature of Shree Beedkar Maharaj, the rich people spread his fame everywhere. This was the testing time for Shree Beedkar Maharaj. Instead of earning name and fame, by remaining in public, he decided to stay alone for the sake of God, and he left that place at night and arrived on the other side of the Narmada river bank near Bharuch. Just as the strong perfume of the Musk cannot remain hidden for long, similarly the fame of Shree Beedkar Maharaj spread everwhere.