Narsobawadi

                                       Narsobawadi in Maharashtra, located near Kolhapur is the land sanctified by the penance of Sri Nrusimha Saraswati swami for a period of 12 years. He is the 2^nd incarnation of Lord Dattatreya in this Kaliyuga. He blessed the devotees here with neumorous leelas and teachings. The detailed description of these leelas can be found in Sri Guru Charitra. This land is still pious due to the presence of the sangam of the river krishna with 5 other holy rivers, namely, Siva, Bhadra, Bhogavati, Kumbhi and Saraswati. Many saints in the Datta sampradaya performed their sadhana and penance here, making this land still rich in spiritual power.  The samadhis of few saintsare located in the premises of the temple itself with names indicated on the boards.

            The author of the book Sri Guru charitra and the very famous datta parampara saint Sri Vasudevananda Saraswati swami, alo known as Tembe Swami sanctified this land by staying here for many years during His sadhana and Yatras.

                  Near by to Narsobawadi are the places which are related to the leelas of Sri Guru charitra. Audumber, Bhilavati, Amarpuram and Shirola are the place we were blessed to visit when we happenend to step into that land for 2 times. To reach the first 2 places, we have to cross the river Krishna or one can reach there by road way also. Audumbar is adorned with Datta padukas where as there is temple of Sri Bhuvaneswari Devi blessing the devotees inn Bhillavati.

               Amarapuram is the place where there is a temple dedicated to Amareswara and the house where Sri Guru received Bhiksha and blessed the family with a hiddden treasure under a tree is just adjascent to the temple. There is a mandir for Sri Vasudevananda saraswati swami too located here. This place is locallu called as Aurwad here.

                         Shirol is the place where one can witness the handprint of Sri Guru on a rock. It is believed that after Sri Guru received bhiksha from a house here, He put His hand on a rock here and the image of the hand got imprinted on that rock as a blessing. That rock is still worshipped as a pious remeniscence of the Lord. One can have the darshan of the hand print during the morning abhishekam and during the latter paart of the day it is covered with a kavacham and decorated with flowers. Even the actual padukas, known as Manohara padukas at the sangam also can be seen directly durin the morning abhishekam only.