Devraha Baba
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| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh |
| Resting place | Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Hindu |
| Temple | Yogiraj Shri Devraha Baba Samadhi Sthal, Vrindavan |
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| Based in | India |
| Successor | Sri Purushottamacharyaji, Devdasji (Bade Sarkar), Devraha Hans Baba |
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Devraha Baba was an Indian Siddha Yogi saint who lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura. He was known as "ageless Yogi".
Life
Little is known about the early life of Devraha Baba, beyond that in the first half of the 20th century he visited Maiel, a town 20 km south west of Salempur, Uttar Pradesh. Here he started living atop a machan, a high platform made of wooden logs, situated 3 km from the town on the banks of Sarayu river. The place was near chilma Bazar Deoria District, thus local people started calling him Devraha Baba, with Baba being an honorific for saints or old men. Thereafter he shifted to Vrindavan, where again he lived atop a machan on the banks of Yamuna river for the rest of his years.[2]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He visited many places in India and was known in different names in different states. At Purneswari Maa Tara Tarini shakti Peetha in Ganjam (Odisha), locals addressed him by the name of Chamatkari Baba. Even today, the priests of Maa Tara Tarini Shakti Peetha remember his miracles during his visit to Maa's Peetha. Once Devraha Baba also attested to it in an Interview with All India Radio.
Devraha Baba was a hermit from Vrindavan.[3] He was considered to be a "spiritual guide to everyone from a pauper to the most powerful ... above narrow confines of caste and community."[4] Village people as well as important personalities waited for hours to have a glimpse or darshan of him.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He received visits from politicians seeking his blessings at the time of general elections, including Indira Gandhi, Buta Singh,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and Rajiv Gandhi.[5] Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi visited his ashram on the eve of the 1989 elections.[6] He used to bless the devotees with his feet.[7]
He lived on a 10-foot-high (3.0 m) wooden platform near the river and wore a small deerskin.[8] A barricade of wooden planks hid his semi-naked body from his devotees, and he came down only to bathe in the river.[9]
Devraha Baba is known for claims stating that he was upwards of 150 years old, according to the first president of India Dr. Rajendra Prashad, Devraha Baba was at least 150 years old, with some rumours stating all the way up to 700 years old. None of these rumours have ever been confirmed as true.[10]
Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Baba in the report who makes Congress squirm". The Indian Express. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Personalities: Devraha Baba". Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, caste, and politics in India. New Delhi: Primus Books. p. 240. ISBN 9789380607047.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Devraha Baba's indictment enrages seers in Ayodhya". The Times of India. 2 December 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dasgupta, Swapan (11 December 2009). "Beyond the Old Books – Modern India and the discourse of faith". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kidwai, Rasheed (2003). Sonia, a biography. New Delhi: Penguin Books India. p. 131. ISBN 9780670049554.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jaffrelot, Christophe (2012). Copeman, Jacob; Ikegame, Aya (eds.). The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York and Oxon: Routledge. p. 83. ISBN 9781136298066.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tully, Mark (2004). Moraes, Dom (ed.). The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys. New Delhi: Penguin India. pp. 101–105. ISBN 978-0141007649.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crossette, Barbara (22 November 1989). "India to Begin Voting; Today on Fate of the Nation and the House of Nehru". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dēvarahā Bābā". lordrama.co.in. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
References
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cohen, Lawrence (2000). No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (2000 ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22462-0. - Total pages: 367
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lutgendorf, Philip (2007). Hanuman's tale: the messages of a divine monkey (2007 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530921-8. - Total pages: 434
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rama, Swami (1978). Living with the Himalayan masters: spiritual experiences of Swami Rama (1978 ed.). Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Sciences & Philosophy. - Total pages: 490
