Shree Narayana Guru- a Great Saint and great Social Reformer (1856–1928)
Shree Narayana Guru well known as Shree Narayana Guru Swami was a Hindu saint & a social reformer of India. Narayana Guru was born on August 20, 1856, in the village of Chempazhanthi near Thiruvananthapuram to Shri Madan Asan, a farmer, and Smt. Kutti Amma into an Ezhava family, a backward community in Kerala. Billavas of Karnataka, Irava in Tamil Nadu racially the same as of Ezhava community of Kerala. He was fondly called Nanu. His father was also a teacher and learned scholar in Sanskrit, Astrology, and Ayurveda. As a child, he was exposed to narratives and stories from the Puranas and Itihaasas like- Ramayana and the Mahabharata- He was also initiated into the traditional formal education Ezhuthinirithal by Chempazhanthi Pillai, Sanskrit, Tamil, traditional subjects such as Siddharupam, Balaprobhodhanam, and Amarakosam and Ayurveda from his father and Uncle Sri Krishnan Vaidyan-an Ayurvedic Physician. As a young boy, he would criticize his own people for...