Panchasakhā

Panchasakhā

Panchasakhā

Acyutānanda was part of the famous Panchasakhā (five friends of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), who lived between 1450 to 1550 AD. The contemporaneous five saints- Acyutānanda Das, Ananta Das, Jasovanta Das, Jagannātha Das, and Balarāma Das, shaped Vaiṣṇava philosophy, spiritualism and literature of Orissa.

Two important factors set the Panchasakhas apart from other Indian saints. They were the first to take the Hindu Sanskrit texts of the Brahmins into the ears and hearts of the common people by translating them into the common language (Oriya). This was first done by Sāralā Dasa’s translation of the Mahābhārata in the mid-fifteenth century, followed by Balarama Dasa’s Jagamohana Ramayana, Jaganath Dasa’s Bhagavata Purana, and Acytananda Dasa’s Harivamsa. The second aspect is their form of Oriya Vaiṣṇavism which sees God as the "Shunya Purusha" and the nature of the soul as being able to merge into the Absolute.

Some authors, such as N.N Vasu, have depicted Orissan Vaisnavism as ‘Buddhist-vaisnavism’ since it does not accept Ramanuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy (11th century) nor does it adhere to orthodox Gaudiya Vaisnavism created in the 16th century. Other scholars, such as Prabhat Mukerjee, have denied these claims supporting the different varieties of Vaisnava philosophy.[6] Scholars debate the influence of the Panchasakha from the original Vaisnava agama (Pancharatras) while others source their ideas in sahajayana Buddhism and the Natha sampradaya. Both the Sahajayana Buddhists and the Panchasakha worshiped the image of Jagannath as the Buddha,[7] though the Panchasakha saw Jagannath as an incarnation of Visnu as seen in the dasāvatar image on the main mantel of the Jagannath temple.

MAHAPURUSHA, SRI ACHYUTAANANDA MALIKA

MAHAPURUSHA, SRI ACHYUTAANANDA MALIKA

MAHAPURUSHA, SRI ACHYUTAANANDA MALIKA
Quite different from other writings of Mahapurusha Sri Achyutaananda, the Brahma Samhitas or Sunya Pothis is a bunch of palm-leaf tagged together without any thing written on it. It is popularly known as the Maalika. It contains Mahapurusha’s Trikala darsan or philosophy of three divisions of time continuum-The past, the present and the future. Blank leaves become visible with writings, when anyone approaches it with queries, problems, visions, ideas and ideals. One gets answers and solutions that are found written on these pages coming from the cosmic horizon where Sri Mahapurusha Achyutaananda it is believed continues to exist. These mysterious lines sometimes come in verse, sometimes in prose and sometimes in symbolic words, and graphic lines in numerous variations.
In it not only that personal queries are answered and predicted but national and international news, issues problems are reflected by and large when there is a context. It is nothing strange to unearth lines from his Maalika to prove that Shri Mahapurusha had predicted the disastrous floods and the super cyclone that rocked the state of Orissa in 1955 and 1999, respectively. Attack on lraq by U.S. and Britain, attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, war in Afghanistan and many such things were predicted much before the incidents occurred.
A seeker of answer to various questions and problems of life in his mind, when faces. These blank leaves jubilate in emotional outbursts of feeling when answer to all his questions are propounded clearly point by point and step by step.

MAHAPURUSA SRI ACHYUTANANDA ABOUT

MAHAPURUSA SRI ACHYUTANANDA ABOUT

Achyutananda Das (or Achutānanda) was a 16th century poet seer and Vaisnava saint from Orissa, India. He was considered to have the power to see the past, present and future. He was a prolific author and one of a group of five that led a revolution in spirituality in eastern India started by translating sanskrit texts into the local language for common people.

He was one of the famous five friends of spirituality and literature Panchasakhā who transcribed ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts into easily understandable colloquial Odiya for the people of Udra Desha (Orissa). Shri Achyutananda Das was the most prolific writer of the Panchasakhas and wrote numerous books, many of whom could be loosely translated as the Book of Prophecies. He is known as the Mahapurusha (Great Man) for his vast knowledge on many subjects such as spirituality, yoga, ritual, Buddhist tantra, Ayurveda (science of life, longevity and medicine), and other various science and social regulations.
Early life
As Acyutānanda became a popular figure much of his life began to become legend. He is famous for being one of the few who wrote about the social situation of his time and this is a scholarly reason many study his writings. His poetry was often cryptic about himself and written in code or analogies. Achyutananda belonged to Karana caste by birth but some claim he was Khandayata. His surname Das means servant (shudras) to god.
Birth
Achyutānanda was born in a village by the name Nemala or some say 'Tilakana',where two distributaries of the Mahanadi, Luna(Labana Dhara) and Chitrotpala bifurcated, of Cuttack district of Orissa, during the twenty first anka (year of region) of the Gajapati (king) Purushottam Deva. This is thought to be somewhere between 1480 and 1505 by different scholars.
His mother was Padmavati and his father was Dinabandhu Khuntia and his grandfather was Gopinath Mohanty, a scribe in the Jagannath Temple (Puri). He was born after his mother prayed at the pillar in front of the Jagannath Temple and his father had a dream that the divine bird Garuda brought him a child. In legend he is believed to be an incarnation of Garuda.
jai jagannath, jai Achyutananda,