12 Facts About Tukdoji Maharaj

Tukdoji Maharaj was a spiritual saint from India.

Tukdoji Maharaj was involved in social reforms in the rural regions of Maharashtra, including construction of roads.

Saint Tukdoji Maharaj was born in Yawali, Amravati district, Maharashtra.

Tukdoji Maharaj received spiritual initiation from Samarth Adkoji Maharaj of Warkhed gram.

Early in childhood, Saint Tukdoji Maharaj performed rigorous penance and spiritual exercises in self-realisation.

Tukdoji Maharaj was an orator and a musician who composed more than 3000 bhajans in Hindi and Marathi, having performed for the spiritual teacher Meher Baba in 1937 and 1944.

Tukdoji Maharaj wrote many articles on Dharma, society, nation and education.

Tukdoji Maharaj studied the existing religious sects and other schools of thought and discussed religious and secular problems of the devotees.

In 1941, Tukdoji Maharaj performed individual acts of civil resistance, called satyagraha, and took part in the mass upsurge of the 'Quit India' movement.

Tukdoji Maharaj was arrested in 1942 and was imprisoned in Nagpur and Raipur Central Jails.

Tukdoji Maharaj took part in Acharya Vinoba Bhave's land reform movement, known as the Bhoodan Movement, and he worked with relief aid at the time of the Bengal famine in 1945, at the time of the Sino-Indian War in 1962, and the Koyna earthquake in 1967.

Tukdoji Maharaj attended the World Conference of Religion and World Peace in Japan in 1955.