Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Biography

Jagat Guru Rambhadracharya Chitrakootdham is an eminent scholar poet, creator, educationist, preacher, philosopher and Hindu religion guru living in Uttar Pradesh. Jagatguru Rambhadracharya  ji Maharaj, who is considered as the form of Goswami Tulsidas ji. Rambhadracharya ji has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of  India . He is a famous scholar of this modern period. Let us know some important facts about Rambhadracharya Ji related to his life –

Famous preaching speaker Jagat Guru Swami Ram Bhadracharya ji was born on 14 January 1950 on Makar Sankranti, in a Saryupani Brahmin family of Sandikurd, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. His father Pt. Rajdev Mishra and his mother’s name was Shachidevi, who was a religious woman. His father’s cousin Meera Bai was a great devotee and Meera Bai used to address Sri Krishna by name as Giridhar in her poems, hence she named Rambhadracharya ji as Giridhar . Hence his childhood name was Giridhar.

He received religious knowledge from his childhood and at the age of 4, Rambhadracharya started to do poems and from the age of 8 he started doing Bhagavata Katha and Ram Katha. The amazing thing is that Rambhadracharya ji is blind since childhood. His eyes were taken by God at the age of 3 and since then his aunt raised him.

At the age of 3, Rambhadracharya ji had a problem in his eyes due to which his aunt had put some medicine in his eye, probably due to which his eyesight was gone forever. The boy’s family took him to various Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Western medicine specialists in Sitapur, Lucknow and Mumbai for eye treatment, but Giridhar’s eyes could not be treated.

Giridhar Mishra is pragyachakshu since then. They can neither read nor write nor use Braille script – they only learn by listening and by writing their compositions by clerks. Even after being blind himself, Swamiji is aware of the sufferings of the blind and the disabled. Therefore, he has established the world’s first residential disabled university in Chitrakoot. All types of handicapped were educated in it. In Rajkot (Gujarat), with the efforts of Maharaj Ji, a hundred-bed Jayanath Hospital, Balamandir, Blood Bank etc. are being operated.

Ramabhadracharya’s first poetic composition

Giridhar’s father was working in Mumbai, so his initial study was done under the supervision of his grandfather at home. In the afternoon, his grandfather used to recite to him the verses of Ramayana, Mahabharata, Vishramsagar, Sukhsagar, Premsagar, Brajvilas etc. At the age of three, Giridhar ji composed his first poem in Awadhi and narrated it to his grandfather. In this poem, Yashoda Mata is exhorting a gopi to fight with Shri Krishna. Following is that poem –

What did I get from my Giridhari ji?
You Taruni Mero Giridhar, the child’s arm is caught.
Susuki Sushi Mero Giridhar Rowat you smile
Ahirin, you will be overjoyed
Giridhar kar gahi kata jasoda achkar ot kari

With the help of his neighbor Pandit Muralidhar Mishra, the boy Giridhar recited the entire Gita on Janmashtami in just fifteen days at the age of five in 1955 AD. Incidentally, Jagadguru Rambhadracharya released the inscribed version of the Bhagavadgita in the first Braille script, including the Sanskrit text and the Hindi commentary, in November 30, 2007, 52 years after the Gita was read. 

At the age of seven, Giridhar’s grandfather had given him a recitation of the entire Sri Ramcharitmanas, including the number six, in 60 days. In the year 1957, during the fast on the day of Ramnavami, he completed the recitation of Ramcharitmanas. Later, Giridhar decimated all Vedic poetry, Sanskrit grammar, Bhagavata, major Upanishads, all the works of Saint Tulsidas and other Sanskrit and Indian literature.

An image of humility and knowledge, Swami Rambhadracharya ji expresses his philosophy of life in the following lines.

Humanity is my temple, I am a priest of
it, handicapped Maheshwar is mine, I am a priest of them.

Ramabhadracharya literary work

Raghavakripabhasya on departure

Rambhadracharya received the honor

• Dharmachakravarti
• Her Majesty
• श्रीचित्रकूटतुलसीपीठाधीश्वर
• Jagadguru Ramanandacharya
• Great poet
• DepartureTributor