Bhadrachala ramadasu biography of mahatma

The story of Bhakta Ramadasu, also known as Bhadrachala Ramadasu, is a tale of devotion, sacrifice, and unwavering faith in the Hindu deity Bhagavan Sri Rama. It is said that the ruler was taken aback by the strength of the devotion of Bhakta Ramadasu.

He collected money for the construction from the citizens, but was not enough. Ramadas was always distracted and his intense love for Lord Rama compelled him to build a temple at Bhadrachalam. When the king checked the gold coins it had the emblem of Bhagavan Sri Rama. Paluke bangaramayena in Ananda Bhairavi

CONCLUSION

Bhadrachala Ramadas, who was a great poet,musician and a great devotee of Lord Rama, has dedicated his entire life to the devotion of Lord Rama.

Ramachandraya Janaka Rajaaja Manohara in Kurinji

2. So he borrowed from the tax revenue of the nawab and gave his god a worthy abode, vowing to return the money.

Popularly known as Bhakta Raamadaas, he was born Gopanna to Linganna Mantri (a surname he kept as a result of one of his forebears being a minister at the court of a king) & Kadamba (sister of Madanna, a brahmin minister to TaniShah), in 1620 in Nelakondapalli, a small village in Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh.

With the tax collected for his arrest charged with fraud and misappropriation of taxes, he spent 12 years in solitary confinement in Golconda Jail, where he wrote poems for the Hindu god Rama, leading to his release and return to Bhadrachalam.

Compositions

• Ramadasu is one of the Bhakti movement poet-saints of Hinduism, and a respected musician in the Carnatic music tradition.
• His musical postures are different and he is remembered by his name or by his favorite place Bhadrachalam; For example, Ramdas, Bhadrachalvas, Bhadradri, Bhadragiri, Bhadrashil and others.
• He composed the Dasarathi Satakam, a devotional poem in didactic metrical style, whose lines and verses are often sung or shared in the regional Telugu tradition.
• These are in the form of Yakshagana or Harikatha about Ramadasu and his songs.

  Then Ramadas was immediately released from the prison.

  Ramadas continued his devotion towards Lord Sri Rama, and one day a chariot was appeared before his home to take him to Vaikunta and he went to the divine abode of Lord Vishnu.

  SONGS

  Some of his songs are as follows:

  1. Rama Ra Ra in Kamas

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  He is said to have learned Telugu, Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu.

Career-

• In 1650, Gopanna traveled to Hyderabad to visit his maternal uncle, who was then serving under Mirza Muhammad Sayyid, a minister in the tax department of the Golconda Sultanate.
• He persuades the minister to give a job to his nephew Gopanna.

  
  
  It is said that Rama & Lakshmana in the guise of two youngsters paid up his dues and got his release papers. He spent most of his earnings on constructing temples and organizing festivals in honor of his beloved deity.

  The turning point in Ramadasu's life came when he heard the plight of Bhagavan Sri Rama's temple in Bhadrachalam.

  Frustrated at god's indifference to his pleadings, Ramadas composed some of the finest keertanas in his prison cell (reminding Rama of his services in Ikshvaku Kula Tilaka). Ramadasu was the author of Telugu Satakam.

Birth Details –

Place- Nelkondapalli Village, Khammam District, Telangana

Date of Birth – 1620

Nationality -Indian

Family –

Mother – Kamamba

Father- Linganna

Brother – Akkanna

Early Life –

• Kancherla Gopanna (Goparaju), later known as Bhakta Ramadasu, was born in a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family to Linganna minister and Kamamba in Nelkondapalli village in Khammam district, Telangana.
• Orphaned as a teenager, he began a penniless life, surviving by singing devotional songs to Rama and collecting rice from door to door.
• His maternal uncles were Madanna and Akkanna brothers.

  He borrowed a substantial sum from the treasury, fully intending to repay it later.

  As the construction progressed, Ramadasu's actions caught the attention of the Qutb Shahi administration. The temple, dedicated to Bhagavan Sri Rama, was in a state of disrepair, lacking proper facilities for devotees. I have heard how You obtained the release of the bold Ramadas from his prison life); in brindaavanalOla in tODi, in kaligiyundE gada in keeravaaNi, in Emi dova balkuma in saaranga and in Prahlaada Bhakti Vijayam he says "kaliyugamuna vara bhadra calamuna nelakonna raamacandruni pada bhaktula kella varudanandagi velasina shree raamadaasu vinutintu madin" (I praise Sri Raamadaas, who shines in this world as the supreme devotee of Sri Raamachandra, who shines forth from his seat at Bhadraachalam in this kali Yuga).
  
  Other compositions are positive invocations, favored by traveling minstrels, including the Tondaiman rulers of PudukoTTai in Tamil Nadu, who popularized his songs.

  Moved by his devotion, Bhagavan Sri Rama himself appeared in the dream of the ruler, Abdul Hasan Qutb Shah, and instructed him to release Ramadasu and forgive his debts.

  As per another version of the story, it is said that two young men arrived at the court of the ruler and paid him the amount along with interest that Bhakta Ramadasu had taken from the treasury.

  Among his other accomplishments is the creation of the whole Ramayana story in the form of a prose-poem, a Choornika.