The Navnath Sampradaya or 'Navnath Parampara', is a Hindu sampradaya, and a parampara, tradition based upon the lineage of the nine gurus Navnaths , from the Nath Sampradaya (lineage) of Hindu mythology.
This tradition, believes Rishi Dattatreya, an incarnation of the Holy trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to be its first teacher .
Navnaths
The nine teachers collectively known as Navnaths are consider the representative of great teachers in this tradition or parampara :
* Matsyendranath
* Gorakhnath
* Jalandharnath
* Kanifnath
* Gahininath
* Bhartrinath
* Revananath
* Charpatnath
* Naganath
Important Teachers
The recent noted teachers of Inchegeri branch of this tradition, based on Advaita Vedanta, have been: Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981), Sri Ranjit Maharaj (1913-2000) , and their guru, Sri Siddharameshwar (1888-1936) and preceding him was 'Bhausaheb Maharaj' (1843-1914) who founded the Math in Inchegeri . Today, Navnath Parampara is most well known advaitic parampara in the world .
Further reading
* I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, Transcribed and edited by Maurice Frydman. 1973. ISBN 0893860220.
* Nectar of Immortality, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Discourses on the Eternal, Edited by Robert Powell. 1987. ISBN 8120817338.
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