Adi Shankaracharya
The young sage from Kerala who walked the length of India, taught Advaita Vedanta and revived the monastic tradition.
Ramanujacharya
The great Sri Vaishnava teacher of Vishishtadvaita who opened the path of loving surrender to all.
Madhvacharya
The strong and fearless teacher of Dvaita Vedanta who installed Sri Krishna at Udupi.
Nimbarkacharya
The Vaishnava acharya of Braj who taught difference and non-difference and worship of Radha and Krishna together.
Vallabhacharya
The founder of the Pushti Marg, who taught that God's grace alone nourishes the soul.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
The ecstatic saint of Bengal who filled streets with kirtan and taught love of Krishna through the holy name.
Goswami Tulsidas
The poet saint who gave North India the Ramcharitmanas and the Hanuman Chalisa in the language of the people.
Surdas
The blind poet of Braj whose songs of child Krishna made generations of mothers see their own children in Yashoda's lap.
Mirabai
The Rajput princess who took Krishna as her husband and sang through every hardship with fearless love.
Sant Kabir
The weaver poet of Kashi whose sharp, simple dohas still cut through pride, ritual and division.
Sant Ravidas
The shoemaker saint of Kashi who sang of a city without sorrow and a God who belongs to everyone.
Sant Tukaram
The grocer saint of Dehu whose abhangas of Vitthal are sung by lakhs of warkaris on the road to Pandharpur.
Sant Dnyaneshwar
The young saint of Alandi who brought the Bhagavad Gita into Marathi and founded a living tradition of devotion.
Sant Namdev
The tailor saint of Pandharpur whose love for Vitthal travelled from Maharashtra to Punjab.
Sant Eknath
The gentle householder saint of Paithan who restored the Dnyaneshwari and taught compassion in daily life.
Samarth Ramdas
The fearless devotee of Rama and Hanuman who taught strength, discipline and service alongside devotion.
Purandara Dasa
The miserly merchant who became the father of Carnatic music and sang Vitthala's glory in simple Kannada.
Kanaka Dasa
The warrior turned saint for whom, tradition says, Udupi Krishna turned to give darshan through a window.
Saint Tyagaraja
The composer saint of Thiruvaiyaru who offered his music only to Rama and gave Carnatic music its greatest kritis.
Annamacharya
The Telugu poet saint of Tirumala who sang a song to Lord Venkateshwara every day of his long life.
Andal
The only woman among the twelve Alvars, who wore the Lord's garland first and sang the Tiruppavai.
The Alvars
The twelve Tamil poet saints whose songs of love for Vishnu became the Divya Prabandham, the Tamil Veda.
The Nayanars
The sixty-three Tamil Shaiva saints whose love for Shiva shines through the Tevaram hymns and the Periya Puranam.
Basavanna
The twelfth-century reformer of Kalyana who taught that work is worship and the body is a temple.
Akka Mahadevi
The fearless woman saint who left a palace for Chennamallikarjuna and sang among the greatest vachanas in Kannada.
Narsinh Mehta
The first great poet of Gujarati, whose Vaishnav Jan To defined the true devotee for Gandhi and for millions.
Jayadeva
The Sanskrit poet of the Gita Govinda, whose songs of Radha and Krishna are sung daily before Lord Jagannath.
Vidyapati
The Maithili poet of Mithila whose songs of Radha, Krishna and Shiva shaped devotion across eastern India.
Srimanta Sankardev
The saint scholar of Assam who taught devotion to one God and shaped Assamese culture through song and drama.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The priest of Dakshineswar who saw Mother Kali face to face and taught that all paths lead to the same God.
Swami Vivekananda
The monk who carried Vedanta from Dakshineswar to the world and taught that serving people is serving God.
Ramana Maharshi
The silent sage of Arunachala who taught one simple, searching question: Who am I?
Sri Aurobindo
The revolutionary turned yogi of Puducherry who taught Integral Yoga and the divine transformation of life.
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
The sage who arranged the Vedas, composed the Mahabharata and is honoured every Guru Purnima as the first guru.
Maharishi Patanjali
The sage of the Yoga Sutras, who set out the eight limbs of yoga in a few short, timeless threads.
Guru Gorakhnath
The great yogi of the Nath tradition, disciple of Matsyendranath, who spread hatha yoga across India and Nepal.
Lalleshwari (Lal Ded)
The wandering mystic of Kashmir whose vakhs of Shiva and the inner Self are still recited by every Kashmiri.
Maharishi Valmiki
The Adi Kavi, the first poet, who changed from a forest robber into the sage who gave the world the Ramayana.
Bhakta Prahlad
The child devotee who never stopped saying Narayana, and for whom the Lord came out of a pillar as Narasimha.
Sant Jnanadev's Sister Muktabai
The youngest of four saintly siblings, who guided her brother Jnanadev and the proud yogi Changdev.
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