For the welfare of mankind, God Himself incarnated as Sri Dattatreya-The Universal Guru (Teacher). Thus, He became the very originator of all Yogic traditions. In the recent times, He descended in various human forms like Sripada Srivallabha, Sri Nrusimha Saraswathi, Sri Manik Prabhu, Sri Akkalkot Maharaj, Sri Shirdi Saibaba. In other words, the life stories of all these Avatars is the great history of Sri Dattatreya. Saints, who are the Dattatreya incarnate, even after shedding their mortal coils, have been appearing in flesh and blood to their devotees and showering their grace on them.
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Sri Narsinha Saraswati, the incarnation of Lord Dattatrey, disappeared in
Patalganga , during the year 1459 and then went to ‘Kadali van’ at the foot of Srishail
Mountain. Sri Swami Samarth, during the year 1838, appeared at Mangalwedha..
During these four hundred years period, Sri Narsinha Saraswati performed numerous
known and unknown miracles. After coming out from Kadali van110 he went to a
desolate forest on the northern side of Bhagirathi River and sat there completely
absorbed in devout meditation. Nobody knew as to how much time passed like this. His
body was fully covered by a growing anthill.
One day a woodcutter came there. He used his axe to cut the tree but that axe
hit the anthill fell on Sriguru’s thigh. Blood started oozing. This disturbed the meditative
trance of Sriguru and he stood up. The woodcutter became very nervous but Sriguru
manifested in the form Sri Swami Samarth The mark of the axe wound did remain on the thigh of Sri Swami Samarth. From the forest on the northern side of Bhagirathi River Sri Swami Samarth went to Gangotri, a holy place in Uttar Pradesh. Then he came to Devalgram. There he installed his ‘Padukas’ and left the place. From there, he came to Rajur in Marathawada, Maharashtra. At Rajur Sri Swami Samarth installed a Muth90. The then Muslim King had given an estate as a gift to the Muth. Later, Sri Swami Samarth left Rajur, leaving behind everything there and went to the holy places Udupi in Karnataka and Pandharpur in Maharashtra. From there he came to Mangalvedha again in Maharashtra and appeared in the public during the year 1838. During this period he became popularly known as ‘Chanchal Bharati’. In Mangalvedha people called him ‘Digambar Swami’. Sri Swami Samarth thus spent some time at Mangalvedha, Mohol, Solapur, Ganagapur all in Maharashtra and then during the year 1855 came to Akkalkot.
Only due to the invitation of Tol(his devotee) Sri Swami Samarth came to Akkalkot during the year 1856 and later on remained there till he took Mahasamadhi. This is the reason he came to be known as Sri Akkalkot Swami or Akkalkotniwasi Sri Swami Samarth.
where is this located-
Its located near sholapur.
How to reach-
Its about 40 km away from Sholapur by road.
You can aswell get down at Akkalkot Rly station.(secunderabad-Bijapur Passenger train)
From Hyderabad it is 340 Km.
