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In
Jamboti Nana (Govind) Kangutkar and his wife
Radhabai Kangutkar were living happily. They gave
birth to child in small hut in a small village
called Benas Murdi on the banks of Malaprabha River.
"Arun", the name of the child. Nana Kangutkar
has two brothers Rama and Mahadev. All of them have
nine children in all, here comes thought of Navanath.
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Thought Nana and Radhabai are illiterate, they got
"Arun" and their other children educated.
"Arun" studied
up to 7th standard in Z.P Primary School in Jamboti.
Arun was not well in education but he got interest
in school's extra curricular activities. One day he
has to leave school for some reason. For idle "Arun"
his father got work of handling cattle. "Arun" use
to go on hills with the cattles. Initially "Arun"
got 4 annas per cattle and it raised to 12 annas per
cattle per month. One day while grazing Arun
suddenly started chanting "Om Namah Shivay". To
count the chanting Arun started collecting small
stones later started collecting leaves of Avali
tree. Further "Arun" started chanting "Om Namah Shivay",
"Om
Vishnave Namah", "Om Namo Shriram". |
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One
day "Arun" got vision in kind of snake under a tree of Avali where he
use to keep stone and leaves after chanting.
One day "Arun's" close friend Ajit Sakhalkar, he had
a job in
military came to village. "Arun" accompanied him
till Miraj. "Arun" stayed in Sangli and got a
job in Hotel Pusparaj and worked for two months. But
inner consciousness does not allowed to so. Then he
returned to Jamboti and started masonry. While
working he started worshiping village Godess Sateri,
Pavanai, Kelbai, Ghagareshwar and deity Durgadevi.
Meanwhile he met his 'Gurubandhu' Handi
Bhadanganath and visited holy places Amarnath, Kashi Vishweshwar,
Varanasi etc., at the age of 16 and
returned to Jamboti. |
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An
atheist person of the village challenged
the existence of God; Maharaj had a dabate with that
person. Got metal Shivlinga and Nageshi idols from
his house. Here Maharaj got publicity and Jamboti
gained name of a holy place.
Yearning of Maharaj to serve the people, the society
got attention of many people. Many people started
coming to Jamboti. One day Maharaj had a thought of
building a temple, and had a word with his
disciples. His disciples started working for the
purpose, purchased land for the temple. On request
and quest of the disciples work for the temple
started on the purchased land. Maharaj himself
worked as mason got structure erected without help
of any architect in one year. Maharaj himself
designed the structure, a structure which gives a
view of national integrity. From west it looks like
Shivalinga, North view of Yesu, from East looks like
elephant face and from South a Dome. Idols of Dattaguru, Kuldevata Ghareshwar (Shivaling), and
Durgadevi are installed in beautifully designed
sanctum sanctorum. The idols are brought from Jaipur
(Rajsthan). Total spending was 8 to 9 Lakhs which
was raised by his disciples. R.R Gund, Laxman Gund (Angadi,
Khanapur), Ramanna Higade, Raju Netalkar, Raju Gopal
Masekar Maruti Pujari, Sambhannavar (Hubli), Nimma
Shet, Yahuda Shet (Gandhinagar, Mumbai), Sunil
Kalemani (Belgaum), Smt. Sanyogita Halgekar
(Councilor, Belgaum) these donors donated by heart
for the purpose. |
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There is a routine schedule in the Temple. Abhishek,
Arati and Mahanaivedya |
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Sadguru Manjunath Maharaj along with spiritual
conducted blood donation camp, heart disease
diagnose camp and other treatment camps. Sadguru
Manjunath Maharaj started drinking water project and
supplied drinking water in the entire village. |
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Sadguru Manjunath Maharaj built Chatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj Statue and entrance gate for Shree Durga
Devi temple at the entrance of the village. Maharaj
constructed a school building for educating the
village children's. |
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