{"id":872,"date":"2020-03-12T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=872"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:43:25","slug":"mahayogini-matha-manikeshwari-passes-away-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Mahayogini Matha Manikeshwari Mathaji entered in Mahasamadhi at 87, Thousands of devotees paid homage to her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> \u201cShe left her body on Saturday night. The funeral will be carried out at 3 p.m. on Monday as per Shaiva rituals,\u201d Shivayya Swamy, secretary of Matha Manikeshwari Trust, said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/mahayogini-matha-manikeshwari-passes-away-at-87\/article31018128.ece\">The Hindu <\/a>has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> Thousands of followers and devotees from various parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra paid homage to Sri Mahayogini Matha Manikeshwari Mathaji, 87, who entered &#8216;Mahasamadhi&#8217; at a hillock in Yanagundi village in Sedam taluk of Kalaburgi district on Sunday, 8 March. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe will be taken inside the cave and buried under the Shivalinga which she herself established. The funeral will be carried out at 3 p.m. on Monday as per Shaiva rituals,\u201d Shivayya Swamy, secretary of Matha Manikeshwari Trust, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/mahayogini-matha-manikeshwari-passes-away-at-87\/article31018128.ece\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Sri Matha Manikeshwari Mathaji was born to Buggappa and Ashamma at Mallabad village in Sedam taluk of Kalaburagi district on July 27, 1934. She left home soon after her marriage with Manikappa of Silarakotriki village in Sedam taluk as she was deeply involved in spiritual life and did not show any interest in married life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><br \/>According to sources, after she left home she started practicing yoga and dhyana saying her prayers to Sri Mallikarjun Mathaji of Srisailam. Then, she began to live in a cave on top of the hillock at Yanagundi some six decades ago. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>She practiced yoga, dhyana, and mounavratam every day, praying to god for peace for humanity. She did not appear in public and used to come out from the cave only during the Mahashivaratri day.<br \/>\u201cShe intended to visit Srisailam to seek the blessings of Sri Mallikajun Swamy and also wanted to establish one crore Shiva Lingas,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/mahayogini-matha-manikeshwari-passes-away-at-87\/article31018128.ece\">Shivayya Swamy<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mathaji has established a total of 108 ashramas across the State and neighboring Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. All ashramas are holding spiritual activities creating awareness among people about peace, ahimsa, and humanity. They also are running educational institutions providing education to children from poor families.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cMathaji became popular as a number of visitors came to see her after she opposed <em>animal sacrifices<\/em> and asked her devotees who came to seek her blessings to follow ahimsa principles as Basaveshwara preached,\u201d Shivayya Swamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/mahayogini-matha-manikeshwari-passes-away-at-87\/article31018128.ece\">added.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Her recent public appearance was during the Mahashivaratri celebrations in February.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Sources: The Hindu<\/p>\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe left her body on Saturday night. The funeral will be carried out at 3 p.m. on Monday as per Shaiva rituals,\u201d Shivayya Swamy, secretary of Matha Manikeshwari Trust, said, The Hindu has reported. Thousands of followers and devotees from various parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra paid homage to Sri Mahayogini Matha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[217,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}