Shri Chidambara Charitaambruta (Story Of The Divine Life Of Shri Chidambara Swami Of Murgod)

We feel blessed to have got divine grace to compile the major events of the divine personality of Shri Lord Chidambara Swami of MurgodKarnataka It was the fervent desire of Late shrimant Shankara Dixit the Poojya Peethadipati to bring English version of biography of Chidambara Swami. His desire was explicit in his Aashirvachana given to us during his visit to Vijayapur years ago. It was Swami Diwakara Dixit the present pontiff of Muragod Mathwho encouraged us to undertake writing English summary of the available Kannada and Marathi source materialmore so of being indebted to prof Dr Balaji Kulkarni whose Kannada book gave us a logical coherence in compiling the source material for the present book. We remain indebted to all of them. Their brilliant expressions in their writings are inimitable more so in English language. We have honestly tried to summarise the salient events in English language. Since the present writing is not a translation or transliteration exactlyit is simply an attempt to summarise the source material in English. We do not claim any source material to be our primary source or as of our research work.It is an attempt to put the matter straight and easy to understand for comman readers. SinceEnglish is not our mother tonguewe admit that many errors must have surely remained unaddressedwe beg the indulgence of the readers to concede our shortcomings and forgive us in lapses if any remained in the book.It was our devotional exercise to make a humble attempt to introduce the divine glory of lord Chidambara Swami to English readers within the narrow range of our understanding and the skill of the language. What is good in the book is not oursbut whatever is not appreciable in this writing surely it is due to our own inability. We pray indulgence of the readers to be sympathetic and guide us further to be more correct and useful for readers. We offer this small attempt at the Lotus feet of Lord Chidambara Maha Swami.