Navnath Sampradaya
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.
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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