Narayana guru history in tamil

The sage Narayana Guru was born in near the city of Trivandrum, which today forms part of the state of Kerala in the south of India. It was there in his home village that he received a Sanskrit based, formal primary education. When elders noticed his ease and freedom with both the Sanskrit and Malayalam languages, and his exceptional talent for poetry, he was sent to receive a higher education under the tutelage of one Sanskrit scholar at Puthuppally, near Kayamkulam.

This place is about sixty miles north of his native place. From the beginning, Narayanan, as he was then known, showed the marked signs of one with a propensity for spirituality. While he was receiving a higher education in Sanskrit, the capability to express his inner vision began to attain maturity. But before completing this formal education, he fell seriously ill and had to return home.

Thereafter he began to conduct a one-man Sanskrit school for the children of his home village for a time. He would begin to leave his native place like this for longer and longer spells, as he took up the life of an itinerant spiritual seeker. One day, without permission and in his absence, his family married him in proxy to a young woman.

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Yet he soon bid farewell to all of them, and left the family life forever. Thereafter he was fully devoted to the life of a wandering seeker. Later he was found performing tapas austere Self-enquiry in a cave atop the high hill Maruthvamala near Kannyakumari, which sits at the southern tail end of the Western Ghats. It was here that he composed the Sivasatakam, a hymn of one-hundred verses praising Siva.

Upon being noticed here, people began to approach him with their woes and problems, as people are often wont to do with spiritual men. Preferring solitude then, he quit that place and was later found undergoing tapas at the banks of the rapids of the River Neyyar. This place was a jungle area called Aruvippuram, about twelve miles southeast of Trivandrum.