An Orphan 5 Yr Old Krishna Devotee, became Guru of a 1400 yr Yogi.

Credits: Voice: Komal Chhabria Her YouTube Channel:-    / 37raina   Please join our channel to support our work:    / @vedictales   #SantMuktabai #KrishnaBhakti #HareKrishna #Jnaneshwar #Namdev #Changdev #Vithoba #SanatanDharma #SpiritualStories #IndianSaints #BhaktiMovement #KrishnaDevotee Muktabai was born in 1298 and was a great devotee of Lord Krishna. Muktabai and her three elder male siblings were all born in the holy town of Alandi on the bank of the river Indrayani near Pune in Maharashtra. Their parents, Vitthalpant and Rukminibai Kulkarni, were Brahmans only but became outcastes. Vitthalpant had vowed to become an ascetic and embraced asceticism hiding his marital status. He pursued spiritual enlightenment from a guru, and he had ritually renounced the life of a householder, leaving his young wife to her own fate. After some time, however, his guru learned that Vitthalpant was married and had left his young wife behind. He then advised Vitthalpant to return to his wife and fulfill his duties as a householder. Vithalpant returned to Alandi but was excommunicated from the community because it was unheard of and against religious scriptures to abandon sanyas and adopt family life again. Vithalpant managed to spend his time in the study of Vedas and Shastras. He became a householder and four children were born to them. They were: Nivrutti in the year 1273, Jnanadeo (Jnaneshwar) in 1275, Sopan in 1277 and the fourth, a daughter Muktabai in 1279. Later Nivritti was regarded as an incarnation of Siva, Jnanadev as an incarnation of Hari, Sopan of Brahma and Muktabai of Sarasvati. Everything was fine until Nivrutti was seven years old which was the time when a boy of Brahmin parentage had to undergo thread ceremony to be inducted as a Brahmin. He approached the Brahmins of Alandi to permit them to perform the thread ceremony but the conservative orthodox community refused. Vithalpant entreated the Brahmins in various ways and requested them to suggest some way out for atoning the sin committed by him; but the orthodox Brahmins were not prepared to budge an inch and to give permission for the thread ceremony. Ultimately, they referred to all the religious books and said that, for the purpose of getting relief from his sins committed, Vithalpant and his wife Rukminibai should sacrifice their lives at the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna. Vithalpant who was really a Godfearing person, accepted the unanimous decision of the Brahmins and with his wife jumped in the holy waters of the Ganga and the Yamuna at Prayag. All the four children became orphans. But their children were still being treated as outcastes and their minds were not at ease. Paithan was in those days a great seat of learning and a stronghold of the orthodox Brahmins. Nivrutti wandered into a cave in the Anjani mountain where Gahininath, one of the nine Naths was staying at that time. He was attracted towards Nivrutti and in spite of his young age initiated him into Nath sect assigning him the mantra “Ramakrishna Hari” instructing him to propagate devotion to Lord Krishna. That is how Nivrutti became Nivruttinath. considering the excellent behaviour of the children and their erudition the Brahmins permitted them to live in the community in Paithan on the condition that they would observe celibacy and produce no progeny. Later Nivruttinath became a guru to his three siblings, including Muktabai. In 1287 when Jnaneshwar was twelve years old, Nivrutinath initiated Jnaneshwar into the Nath sect and instructed him to write a commentary on Gita.Thus this was a unique situation of a fourteen year old elder brother-Guru instructing his twelve year old younger brother-disciple to write something which had become the hope of humanity. He started writing commentary on Jyaneshari Geeta at the age of about 12 years and completed it at the age of 15 years.