Question

Who among the following was the reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya?
1. Ramananda
2. Valmiki
3. Tukaram
4. Tulsidas

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Tulsidas

The correct answer is Tulsidas.

• Tulsidas was the reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya.

 

• Tulsidas (16th century) is also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a Ramanandi Vaishnava saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.
• He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi but is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama's life in the vernacular Awadhi.
• Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of Varanasi and Ayodhya.
• He founded the Sankatmochan Temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of the deity.
• Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana.
• Sant Tukaram Maharaj (17th century) also referred to as Santshreshta, Jagadguru, Tukoba and Tukobaraya, was a 17th-century Marathi poet and saint of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra, India.
• He was part of the egalitarian, personalized Varkari devotionalism tradition.
• Swami Ramananda was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet-saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India.
• The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Bairagi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.