Pavhari Baba was born in Premapur, Jaunpur in a Brahmin family.
19 Facts About Pavhari Baba
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Pavhari Baba then came back to Ghazipur and built an underground hermitage in his house where he used to practise meditation and Yoga for days.
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Pavhari Baba was noted for his humility, politeness and spirit of welfare.
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Pavhari Baba gained popularity as a yogi, yet his life is shrouded with mystery.
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Pavhari Baba was born in village Premapur, Jaunpur in a Brahmin family.
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Pavhari Baba's uncle was a Naishthika Brahmachari and a follower of Ramanuja or Shri sect.
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Pavhari Baba owned a piece of land in Ghazipur which Pavhari Baba got in inheritance.
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Pavhari Baba was a diligent student of Vyakarana and Nyaya and had demonstrated mastery in many branches of Hindu philosophy in his youth.
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Pavhari Baba had acquaintance with the Vaishnavas of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's order.
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Pavhari Baba became a disciple of a Sannyasi and from him he learned Advaita Vedanta.
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Pavhari Baba renounced the world, worldly way of life, and built an underground hermitage where he used to stay alone with his followers one Cobra and mongoose.
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Pavhari Baba was noted for his polite and kind behaviour.
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Pavhari Baba chased the dog, praying: "Please wait; my Lord; let me butter the bread for you".
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One night when Pavhari Baba was sleeping, a thief entered his hermitage.
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Pavhari Baba chased the thief, caught him and requested him with folded hands to accept the goods which he had stolen from his hermitage saying: "All these are yours, my God".
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Pavhari Baba requested him to stay for few more days at Ghazipur, which Vivekananda accepted.
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Vivekananda delivered a lecture "Sketch of the life of Pavhari Baba" which was later published as a booklet.
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Pavhari Baba advised Vivekananda to remain lying at the door of a teacher's house like a dog.
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Pavhari Baba did not come out of his hermitage for several days and then one day people noticed smoke coming out of his hermitage and got smell of burning flesh.