GURU
SREE NARAYANA GURU WAS A GREAT INDIAN SPIRITUAL LEADER, PHILOSOPHER, SOCIAL REFORMER AND HUMANIST. HE WORKED TIRELESSLY FOR THE UPLIFTMENT OF SOCIETY AND PROMOTED EQUALITY, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL HARMONY.
HIS TEACHINGS EMPHASIZED THE UNITY OF HUMANITY, THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND THE ELIMINATION OF CASTE DISCRIMINATION. HIS MESSAGE OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD AND COMPASSION CONTINUES TO INSPIRE PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD.
SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT MAHA GURU
- THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF STATUES, LIBRARIES, MONUMENTS, ROADS, JUNCTIONS, BUSES, AUTOS, ETC., ARE NAMED AFTER SREE NARAYANA GURUDEVAN.
- SRI LANKA HAD ISSUED A POSTAGE STAMP IN THE NAME OF SREE NARAYANA GURU, THE ONLY KERALITE SO FAR, TO BESTOW GREAT HONOUR FOR HIS EFFORTS IN ERADICATING CENTURIES OLD DISCRIMINATIONS PREVALENT IN KERALA SOCIETY AND ACHIEVED THROUGH PEACEFULLY BUT EFFECTIVELY.
- THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF BIOGRAPHIES, POEMS, BIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS, ESSAYS, RESEARCH PAPERS, ETC., HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE NAME OF SREE NARAYANA GURU.
- THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA HAS INCLUDED GURU'S WORKS AND HIS BIOGRAPHY IN THEIR SCHOOL SYLLABUS.
- THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA HAS ALSO NAMED A RAILWAY STATION IN THE NAME OF SREE NARAYANA GURU.
- THE GOVERNMENT OF UTTAR PRADESH DURING ANAND MAYANATH AS CHIEF MINISTER INSTALLED A HUGE STATUE OF GURUDEVAN AT THE PARIVARTHAN CENTRE IN LUCKNOW.
- THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA HAS OFFICIALLY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED AT GOVERNMENT COST COPIES OF GURU'S HISTORICAL DECLARATION "JATHIYILLA VILAMBARAM" (NO CASTE FOR ME).
- THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY, A PRAYER SONG TITLED "DAIVADASAKAM" BY SREE NARAYANA GURU HAS PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED AT GOVERNMENT COST ON ITS CENTENARY.
- FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE POSTAL AUTHORITIES RELEASED A POSTAGE STAMP ON A LITERARY WORK FROM KERALA, BASED ON THE PRAYER SONG "DAIVADASAKAM" WRITTEN BY SREE NARAYANA GURU.
- IN 1985 SRI JAYACHANDRAN BAGGED THE BEST PLAYBACK SINGER AWARD FOR HIS SONG "SHASWATHIKA SARVA SHARANYA VIBHO..." BASED ON GURU'S KRITI "SHIVA PRASADA PANCHAKAM".
- DR. K. J. YESUDAS STARTED HIS CAREER IN PLAYBACK SINGING WITH HIS FIRST SONG "JATHI BHEDAM, MATHA DWESHAM..." IN THE FILM "KALPADUKAL". RECOGNITION, LAURELS AND AWARDS SHOWERED AND HE NEVER HAD TO LOOK BACK.
- SRI NARAYANA MODI BECAME PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA ON THE 100TH DAY OF HIS VISIT TO SIVAGIRI MUTT. PRIME MINISTER'S POOJA ROOM ADORNS THE PICTURE OF MAHAGURU, INSTALLED BY THE PRIESTS FROM SIVAGIRI MUTT.
- THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF EPICS IN KERALA IS WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF SREE NARAYANA GURU.
- THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF TRANSLATIONS OF BIOGRAPHY IS THAT OF NARAYANA GURU BY NOT OF INDIA, IN 29 LANGUAGES.
- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN KERALA, THE GURU JAYANTI AND SAMADHI ARE DECLARED AS STATE HOLIDAYS IN THE NAME OF SREE NARAYANA GURU.