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ABOUT SREENARAYANA GURU

Narayana Guru, also seen as Sree Narayana Guru Swami, was a Hindu saint, sadhu and social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from the Ezhava community and other communities that were regarded as "Avarna", faced much social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society. Gurudevan, as he was fondly known to his followers, led Reform movement in Kerala, revolted against casteism and worked on propagating new values of freedom in spirituality and of social equality, thereby transforming the Kerala society and as such he is adored as a prophet.

Narayana Guru was born on 22 August 1854, in the village of Chempazhanthy near Thiruvananthapuram, the son of Madan Asan, a farmer, and Kutti Amma. The boy was dotingly called Nanu. Madan was also a teacher who was learned in Sanskrit and proficient in Astrology and Ayurveda. He had three sisters. As a boy, Nanu would listen to his father with keen interest when he narrated stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the simple folks of his village.


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