No | English Month | RegionalMonth* | Place of Birth | Mahatma NameSwami and Swamini | Brief description |
| 1 | January | Dhanur | Calcutta | Swami Vivekandanda | “You have to grow from the inside out”. None can teach you; none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. |
| 2 | January | Makara | Kanchi | Seshadri Swamigal | THE SAINT WITH A GOLDEN HAND;” Until the dawning of wisdom there are two entities, the Jeevatman or the individual soul and the Paramatman or the light supreme. With the shedding of maya, the illusion that the two are separate, ends |
| 3 | February | Kumbha | Bengal | Ramakrishna Paramahamsa | “The revelation of God takes place at all times”. God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous” |
| 4 | March | Meena | Mangalore | Mother Rama Devi | Taught spiritualization of life at home; “Attachments, not associations have to be discarded”; Negative isolations and life fleeing seclusions are not needed to attain God vision |
| 5 | March | Meena | Jillellamudi | Anasuya Amma | Saw only good in people and had no concept of “sin”, treating all alike irrespective of faith and religion; “My life is infinite and my history is limited” |
| 6 | April | Mehsa | Kalady | Adi Shankara | Founder of Adhvaitha philosophy; “Brahma Satyam Jagad Mithya; Jeevo Brahmaiva Naparahaa”; Supreme Consciousness (Parabrahman) alone is real and nothing else is; |
| 7 | April | Meena | Kanhangad | Swami Ramdas | Saint, philosopher, philanthropist, pilgrim. Advocated repetition of mantra “Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram”; All is Ram, nothing but Ram |
| 8 | April | Mesha | Bangladesh | Anandamayi Ma | “All paths are my paths and I have no particular path”; frequently referred to herself in the third person as either “this body” or “this little girl”; |
| 9 | April | Meena | Uttar Pradesh | Swami Narayana | The Lord, Shri Krishna is the greatest entity. I admire Him the most. He is the cause of all incarnations and is thus truly worthy to be worshiped. |
| 10 | April | Mesha | Mumbai | Nisargadatta Maharaj | “Go back to that state of pure being, where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it got contaminated with ‘this I am’ or ‘that I am.’ Your burden is of false self-identification – abandon them all.” |
| 11 | May | Mesha | Ernakulam | Swami Chinmayananda | “The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts”; Mind alone is maya at play. |
| 12 | May | Vrishabha | Villipuram | Sri Chandrasekar Saraswathi | Karma Yogi; Brought back the practices of Sanatana Dharma effectively to the masses |
| 13 | July | Mithuna | Not known | Veda Vyasar | Author of the Mahabharata, Vedas and Puranas. “No one belongs to Me; I belong to no one; There is no I or Mine” |
| 14 | August | Simha | Manjakuddi | Dayananda Saraswati (Ärsha Vidya) | An eminent teacher of Vedanta and an erudite scholar in Sanskrit, could communicate the vision of non-duality to modern listeners |
| 15 | August | Simha | Calcutta | Sri Aurobindo | “Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our pure blind sentimentalism” |
| 16 | August | Simha | Trivandrum | Narayana Guru Devan | Great proponent and re-evaluator of Advaita Vedanta; extended this non dualistic principle into practical modes of self-realisation through compassion and peaceful coexistence |
| 17 | August | Simha | Kollur | Chattambi Swamigal | There is only one mind for the entire world. The whole universe is the manifestation of the one. The apparent differences between different objects are only an illusion |
| 18 | August | Simha | Venganoor, Trivandrum | Ayyangali | Social reformer who worked for the advancement of deprived untouchable people |
| 19 | September | Kanya | Ochira | Amrithanandamayi | Bakthipracharam; revered as a hugging saint; “One has infinite power within but to connect one has to surrender” |
| 20 | September | Kanya | Ghurni, Bengal | Lahiri Mahasaya | Teacher of Kriya Yoga, disciple of Mahavatar Babaji. often exhibited the breathless state of Superconscious samaadhi |
| 21 | September | Kanya | Nankana Sahib, Pakistan | Guru Nanak | “He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.” Wrote Guru Grantha Sahib |
| 22 | September | Kanya | Pattamadai, Thirunelveli | Sivananda Saraswati | Author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. |
| 23 | September | Kanya | Calcuttla | Prabhu Pada | “Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.” |
| 24 | September | Kanya | Bapatla, AP | Velpur Mouna Swami | ‘Silent’ Swami; remarkable Karma Yogi, does not permit anyone to do any form of writing on his life |
| 25 | October | Tula | Narsi, Maharashtra | Namdev | Composed number of Abhangās, full with the nectar of Bhakti and love towards God; Meditate on the Lord in your heart. Serve the Lord with your hands. Place your head at His lotus feet. |
| 26 | October | Kanya | Chidambaram | Ramalinga Swamigal (Vallalaar) | “Service to Living Beings is the path of Liberation/ Moksha”; Compassion and mercy are the only path to God. |
| 27 | November | Vrishchika | Puttaparthi | Sathya Sai Baba | “Love is God, God is love, Live in love”; Where there is love, there, God is certainly evident; transform the love into service; transform the service into worship… that is the highest sadhana |
| 28 | November | Vrishchika | Andhra Pradesh | Ganapati Muni | Gave the name of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi to Brahmanaswami. Wrote the great devotional epic hymn, “Uma Sahasram,” One Thousand Verses on Uma, after accepting Sri Maharshi as his Guru |
| 29 | November | Vrishchikam | Parangipettai | Mahavatar Babaji | He is beyond time and space and He is constantly blessing humanity with waves of love and peace. “Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing”. |
| 30 | December | Vrishchika | Lalganj | Yogi Ramsuratkumar | Always spoke of himself as, ‘this dirty beggar, this useless madcap fellow, this great sinner” and of His Father as, ‘very great’. my SUPREME FATHER is existence: Arunachala Shiva |
| 31 | December | Dhanur | Tiruchulli | Ramana Maharshi | “The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their past deeds – their Prarabdha Karma. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to stop it”; His most important teaching was a practice called vichara i.e. “Self-enquiry.” |
| 32 | 563 | Not known | Lumbini | Budha | “Awakened One”. One can achieve liberation, also called Nirvana, by extinguishing the “fires” of desire, hatred, and ignorance |
| 33 | 6th Century | Not known | Bihar | Mahavira | “Observance of the vows of ahimsa (non-violence), satya (truth), asteya (non-stealing), brahmacharya (chastity), and aparigraha (non-attachment) are necessary for spiritual liberation |
| 34 | 6th Century | Not known | Tiruvamur | Appar/Thiru-navuk-arasar (Lord of Speech) | “Let me remember Your (Lord Shiva) name always. Even if I take birth as a worm, let me not forget Your name. Let me find delight in uttering Your name” |
| 35 | 7th Century | Not known | Srikali, Tanjore | Gyana Sambandar | “O foolish man, do not allow days to pass. Serve and meditate on Lord Shiva. Repeat always the Panchakshara. Live in the company of devotees of Siva. His name will remove all evils and dangers |
| 36 | 8th Century | Not known | Tirunavalur | Sundarar | “Oh Lord! It is due to my evil thought that I have to undergo this separation from Thee; Dispel my ignorance soon and take me back to your lotus feet.” |
| 37 | 9th Century | Not known | Thiruvadhavoor | Manikkavacakar | Man with words as precious as Manikkam;wrote Tiruvasakam; Accoridng to him five letters of “Na Mah Shi va ya” alone give one mukti” |
| 38 | 10th Century | Not known | Kamarupa | Matsyendranath | He whose Lord is the Lord of the Fishes, Matsyendra is credited with the Natha tradition; “Natha” literally means “lord, protector, refuge” |
| 39 | 11th Century | Not known | Sriperumbudur | Ramanuja-chaaryar | Founder of Visishtadwaitham philosophy; the doctrine that only one supreme being exists |
| 40 | 1498 | Not known | Rajasthan | Mirabai | Poet and devotee of Lord Krishna; considered herself to be a Gopi of Vrindavan, mad only with pure love for Krishna..pure Bhakti |
| 41 | 15th Century | Not known | Varanasi | Kabirdas | Truth is with the person who is on the path of righteousness, considered all creatures on earth as his own self |
| 42 | 15th Century | Not known | Thiruvanamalai | Arunagirinathar | Tamil saint-poet who lived during the 15th century in Tamil Nadu, India. He was the creator of Thiruppugazh, a book of poems in Tamil in praise of lord Murugan. |
| 43 | 1560 | Not known | Melpathur | Narayana Battathiri | Wrote The “Narayaneeyam” consisting of 1036 verses, a summary of 18,000 verses of the Bhagavata Purana.Was a propounder of PurvaMimamsa (reflection of one self), Uttara Mimamsa (Inquiry) and Vyakarana (Grammar) |
| 44 | 1547 | Not known | Keezhattoor | Poonthanam | Wrote, Jnanappana which means “the song of divine wisdom” Preached Namasmaranam, or the constant remembrance of the Lord’s name, as the only way to reach Him. |
| 45 | 1595 | Not known | Not known | Ragavendra Swami | “Have devotion to the Lord. Accepting the Lord’s supremacy wholeheartedly is true devotion. Blind faith is not devotion” |
| 46 | 1511 | Not known | Rajapur | Tulsidas | Regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana. wrote Ramacharitramanasa |
| 47 | 1608 | Not known | Dehu Pune | Tukaram | “Guru is Brahma, Vishnu, Maheswara. Have faith in Guru. Guru may be your parent, teacher, a friend or anybody for that matter” |
| 48 | 1690 | Not known | Maharashtra | Bhaskara Raya | Devotee of Mother Goddess. Wrote a commentary to the Lalita Sahasranamam and explained the meaning of all the 1008 names of Goddess with great insight and scholarship. One cannot write such a work unless there is divine grace |
| 49 | 1925 | Not known | North India | Swami Rama | “When a human being learns to seek religion not in Gods, but in his own potentials, then he will know that he is great and that within his greatness lies his happiness” |
| 50 | Not Known | Not known | Karnataka | Madhvacharya | Chief proponent of the Dwaita; Atman and Brahman are two different unchanging realities, with individual soul dependent on Brahman, never identical |
| 51 | Not known | Not known | Not Known | Shirdi Sai Baba | Manifestation of Sri Dattaguru and identified as saint & a fakir; His teachings are – faith (Shraddha) and patience (Saburi) |
| 52 | Not known | Not known | Puravipalayaman | Koti Swami | The 300 Year Old Saint of Puravipalayaman; acclaimed Siddha Purusha; repeatedly used the word ‘ Kodi’ for blessing |
| 53 | Not known | Not known | Porbandar | Kuchela/Sudama | “God will provide for your good deeds and needs”; Don’t trade Bhakti for anything in return |
| 54 | Not known | Not known | Not known | Bheeshmar | Wherever there is Krishna there is Dharma and wherever there is Dharma there is eternal victory. He is known for his pledge of celibacy |
*where information not available, the starting Tamil month has been considered; the order of listing is based on birth month
Please note this is not an exhaustive list. An attempt has been made to highlight a few of the known Gurus. There are many Gurus who guide us always and we pray, by the grace of Guru, we can keep adding more to the list in next versions. They have imparted many teachings and answered our many questions in many ways.. their core value/teaching related to Vedanta has only been mentioned;