The Respect for Mohunt Maharaj / Devotees

 

  

Facebook has always been such a platform for me where I had happened to meet many types of people of different beliefs and thoughts.  Many times those beliefs taught me many new things and many times they shock me or make me sad.  During such types of interaction I came to know of one such type of belief of a devotee who claim to be our Guruji’s devotee which left me wondering that if that is the correct way of devotion? I remember that in the past also I have met such type of people carrying such types of ideas and if not exactly then atleast similar to some extent.  I am sure that in our Bengali community this belief is very much prevalent and today I would like draw all your attention to that aspect. It is that there is one belief among a section of people that except my Gurudev I wouldn’t bow to anybody else and sometimes it goes to the extent of showing disrespect or using offensive language against the other Guru!! I had met one such fellow at facebook who claims to be our Guruji’s devotee but he doesn’t believe in the Mohunt Maharajs in the line of order of Sri Sri Kaivalyadham! His argument is that he doesn’t like them or know them etc. But the thing is that by not giving proper respects are you not going against your own Guru’s instructions?? Once it so happened that a person came to take diksha from Sri Sri Thakur but Gurudev instructed Sri Shyamacharan Chakraborty mohashoy who was the Second Mohunt Maharaj to give Sri Naam to that person. But that person insisted to get Sri Naam from Sri Sri Thakur but Gurudev didn’t met that fellow and ultimately he had to take diksha much to against his wishes from the Maharaj only.  After receiving diksha that fellow tried to enter the room where Gurudev was staying but he was stopped by the other devotees then he somehow managed to peep from the window and started shouting loudly as Guruji please give me Sri Naam!! Please give me Sri Naam!! Hearing this Sri Sri Thakur asked as to why is that person shouting and after knowing the reason became angry and told him to go away. Sri Sri Thakur asked him what more he wants from Him as He Himself has only given Sri Naam from inside the Maharaj and remarked that you have taken Sri Naam but you haven’t received it as after receiving Sri Naam a person can never be so restless!! At another place once Sri Sri Thakur had said that all the devotees should know one thing very clearly that the Mohunt Maharaj of Sri Sri Kaivalyadham is the live & evident form of Lord Sri Sri Kaivalyanath Himself and knowing this truth everybody should give proper respects to Him otherwise it would be an offence at the holy feet of your own Lord only!!! Here I would tell about an incident from my own experience.  This was when I was posted at Chennai branch of my office and there I had happened to met one Tamilian Iyenger South Indian Brahmin officer who was my boss for some three years. If anybody of you know about tamil Brahmins you would also be knowing about their rigidity & fanaticism, their staunch belief surrounding their religion, customs, temple & rituals etc. That fellow was my boss but our relation was more of a friend type and he used to discuss me everything relating to their community’s beliefs and customs.  He used to tell me they only believe in Lord Narayana only and according to them only & only Lord Narayana is the supreme & can give mukti!! According to him Lord Shiva comes after Lord Narayana and He is in second position.  I used to argue with him that this is not devotion infact it is fanaticism. One day he said that see Lord Narayana is the Chairman and Lord Shiva is the Managing Director and when I know the Chairman there is no need for me to bow before the Managing Director!! Hearing this I asked him tell me one thing Sir, suppose you are going to meet the Chairman and on the way you happen to meet the Managing Director would you not greet Him?? or suppose you enter the cabin of the Chairman and the Managing Director is also happened to be sitting there you would greet only the Chairman not the Managing Director?? At this that tamilian was quiet and could not say anything. I continued that if you wish only the Chairman not the Managing Director then Chairman itself would scold you and punish for not showing the proper respect and would say how dare you did this? I only made him the Managing Director and by showing disrespect to Him you have shown disrespect me only!!! Similarly in spiritual world also the disciples of Gurudev who can be the Mohunt Maharaj also are very dear to Him and you have to give proper respects to them and if you are not doing this it is an offence!! My tamilian boss slowly understood everything and later on accepted that Narayana and Shiva are all one only. The close disciples who everytime meditate on their Guru or Lord becomes one with them and thus there is no difference between them and the Lord!!  Here I would like to point out one thing that many times some devotees of our Gurudev asked me as to how to give respect to any Mohunt Maharaj for whom you don’t have any respects inside? I would say that it is none of our business and leave everything to Sri Sri Thakur!! You check yourself and do your duty, thats all. Sri Sri Thakur at one place told that anybody wearing a saint’s dress must be given respect and one should not bother who is wearing that dress!! He further said that if you see the commander of an army that whenever he gives command to the army to march they all start marching because they see only the dress of the commander and don’t bother as to who is wearing that costume & follow the orders!!! Similarly all saints should be given due respects as you are not giving respect to the person you are giving respect to the holy outfit!! Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had prostrated even before a donkey after putting the holy saffron robes on it!! These are all holy teachings which we used get from our elders in family tradition but now due to modernization even the elders of mostly families don’t know them so what they will give to their younger generations!!! If you ask any Vaishnavite he would tell you the easiest way to attain devotion at the holy feet of Lord is through the mercy of Lord’s devotees!! That is why they chant  Sri Radhe! Sri Radhe! Why? Because Srimati Radharani is the biggest disciple of Lord Sri Krishna and whoever gets the blessing of Srimati Radharani would easily get the mercy of Lord Sri Krishna also!! Similarly they also chant Nitai Gaur Hori Bol! Before Gaur’s name they say Nitai ! why? Again same reason Nityananada Prabhu is very very dear to Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and whoever gets Nitai’s mercy would easily get Lord’s mercy also!! Actually these all things teaches us to how to become modest, humble and love God but being rigid attitude would never allow you to go near Him!! Remember that quote that straight trees fall first in the storm!! Actually what is devotion is far from these people’s brains! When Sri Sri Thakur was here He showed many times that instead of serving Him if you serve His devotees he became much more happy!! One fellow made some arrangements of morning breakfast at his home for Sri Sri Thakur and His devotees who were going to visit him but he did one differentiation. For Gurudev he made elaborate arrangements as pooris, sabjis, fried vegetables etc and for the devotees some puffed rice alongwith grated coconut. That fellow’s mother didn’t liked this and told him to rectify it as it was against Sri Sri Thakur’s ideals but he became angry instead and told that are these devotees daily eat pooris at their homes? His mother kept quiet and didn’t say anything. When that fellow went to take Sri Sri Thakur, He refused to visit His home and didn’t went there at all!! He tried his level best to pusuade Him but Gurudev didn’t agreed! It is very unfortunate to say that many places I have seen that the followers of one Guru hurl abuses at the other Guru!! Is this you call devotion?? True Vaishnavites would always quote before his name as Dasanudas means servant of servant of the Lord! If you see the life of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu you will find that even being a Lord he used to fall at the feet of all the devotees asking for mercy for devotion of Sri Krishna!!  When Prabhu Nityananda was attacked by Jagai Madhai he summoned immediately Sudarshan Chakra forgoting his own vow of not to take astra in his hands in this incarnation and that he would only spread Prema (Love) among all the jeevas. Why? The answer is his immense love for his devotees!! For his devotees Lord can do anything! So to get his mercy and blessing you would to have show proper respects to His devotees then only Lord will shower his mercy on to you!! And moreover by getting the devotee’s blessings you would easily attain devotion for Lord into your heart!! So Friends! Always bow before the Mohunt Maharaj & devotees of your Guru and Lord and give them the proper respect which they deserve!! Jai Ram!!

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Its Vedvani Again

Dear Guru brothers & sisters! This post is in continuation of my earlier post about the glory of holy Vedvani!! Everybody has different experiences about the greatness of Vedvani which is Gurudev Himself! After reading my earlier post about Vedvani somebody has told me about her experience which I think must be shared with you all as it glorifies the greatness of my Gurudev only. One of our Guru sister after marriage was staying with her in-laws while her husband who was working abroad had gone out to arrange for a proper accommodation so that he could shift in that flat with his newly wed wife. It so happened her mother-in-law started telling her daily as why to unnecessarily go with her son to stay abroad so far away instead she could stay with them there itself and she even try to bribe her by telling that if her husband stays alone there then he would be able to save more money and with that money he would purchase costly gold and diamond jewellery items for his wife!! Gold is a big weakness for almost all the girls and as told by our Guru sister that actually for a moment she had fallen into the trap!! But then due to her immense devotion for our Gurudev she asked Him to help and she had this habit of asking our Gurudev through the holy Vedvani since her childhood days. Accordingly she asked Him to guide her and opened Vedvani and the message she got was that Sita Sonar Horiner Lobhe Poriya Ram re Harayia Ashok Bone Bondi asilen. Er por sei Ashok Bone Boshiya Ram er Ananya Chinta Koray pore Ram i Ashiya Uddhar koriya Loiya Jan!  (means Sitadevi lost Lord Sri Ram after feeling attracted towards the golden deer or infact the gold and was prisoned in ashoka forest and there after continuously meditating on Lord Sri Ram, Sri Ram later came & rescued her from there). Our Guru sister got the ultimate message from Gurudev to not to fall into the trap of her mother-in-law otherwise she would loose her husband or his love for her as he may also think that money or gold is much dearer to her than him!! How Sri Sri Thakur guides all of us everytime in our difficult situations!! I have said earlier also & now saying again that the meaningfulness of these holy scriptures can be only realised  through our own experiences in our lives not through any bookish knowledge!! Most of the people would just chant or read these divine messages of Vedvani without having the least realisation about them. In Vedvani Sri Sri Thakur always insists to believe in destiny (bhagya/Praktan/Prarabha) but I suspect how many of our Guru devotees believe in this!! If anything big is achieved say job, promotion, house etc. people will boast about their own capability! If something bad happens they would blame the God!! why?? If you want to take the credibility of the good fruits then take the bad one also!! This is double-crossing with God!! isn't it?? Otherwise do what Gurudev says believe truly in destiny as whatever happens good or bad is due your own karmas done in your previous birth and leave everything to Him!! About chanting of Sri Naam, Gurudev always insists, here also mostly forgots this very important thing!! Once Gurudev remarked as Naam to Shobai Ishtehari Koira Bakse Puira Rakse, Proyojone Bebohar Kore! (people have locked & kept this Sri Naam in a box and use it only when in need or when in trouble). why?? Sri Naam have been given to you to be remembered in every moment of your life!! It is not possible at the beginning but practice makes a man perfect & it has been confirmed by our Gurudev also!! So it is not showing about Vedvani's divine messages that how much you know instead it should be that how much you have realised!! Jai Ram!!

The Glory of Holy Prasad of Gurudev

POROM DOYAL SRI SRI RAMTHAKUR

Dear Guru brothers/sisters! Jai Ram! today I would like to share with you a story related to the divinity of holy prasad of our Gurudev and God!! It so happened once that Sri Sri Thakur along with some of His devotees had happened to visit a home of a devotee while staying at bangladesh. That devotee had a pet dog in his house who immediately after seeing our Gurudev came to near to Him and paid his respects at Gurudev's holy feet. When after staying for some time in that house Sri Sri Thakur started to leave that place the dog also started to follow Him!! Gurudev went in many homes in that area & subsequently that dog was also following Him everywhere!! The devotees accompanying Sri Sri Thakur tried many times to make him return to his master's home but he didn't listened. The whole day that dog roamed at different places with Sri Sri Thakur, the devotees also tried to bring Gurudev's attention to it but He also didn't paid any attention to their requests. Then after visiting various homes they all decided to leave that place and boarded a launch boat to ferry across a river and surprisingly that dog also jumped into the river started swimming & was following them!! All the devotees were utterly shocked to see this & asked Sri Sri Thakur to see this but He didn't looked at the dog at all!! After some time the river started becoming more deeper & deeper and the devotees feared that the dog may be  drowned now, they all started requesting Sri Sri Thakur to look at the dog and have mercy on him.  Suddenly Sri Sri Thakur looked at the dog and threw a very small & tiny pebble type stone on the dog which hit him on the head and immediately the dog turned back and went away!! Everybody sighed a big relief that now the dog is saved!! After some 1 or 2 months of this incident when a devotee happened to visit that home again he came to know that their dog after returning took a round of the Tulsi Vedi (Temple) in front of the house and died!! The house owner was totally confused & shocked as to what had happened suddenly as first it left them and followed Gurudev everywhere and then after returning left his body!! Everybody started pestering Sri Sri Thakur for the reason behind to which Gurudev told that dog was a pious sadhu in his previous birth but he had did a sin for which he had got this birth of a dog!! The sin was that he had eaten his Guru's prasad with a sense of dislike or disgust for that prasad! But in this birth due to his previous good deeds he had the previous birth's memory!! The moral of the story is that dog immediately on seeing Gurudev understood that only He could give him salvation from his sin and subsequently Sri Sri Thakur did the same!! One devotee asked Guruji that at many places we have seen that the prasad is prepared under unhygenic conditions & not prepared properly or somewhere even rotten or spoiled prasad is also been offered, in that situation what to do?? If one doesn't eat that prasad then it would be a offend towards the deity and if eaten with a disliking sense then he may born in a inferior species!! Sri Sri Thakur said that in that case you can after paying your respects to that prasad immerse it in a pond or a river nearby and if any pond/river is not available then you can put it under a big tree also!! If that tree is a banyan tree then it would be much better!! If tree is also not available then keep that prasad safely in a paper or cloth with you and when you find any river or tree do the abovementioned!! So, friends remember what Gurudev told all of us because many times many of us would have encountered such situations in our lives!! Remember every karma has its fruits just like Newton's third law of relativity! Jai Ram!!

The Holy Vedvani & its Glory

HOLY BELOVED GURUDEV, THE AUTHOR OF VEDVANI

 Each and every disciple of our Gurudev are having this holy scripture at their homes which guides all of us in our all types of difficulties & problems.  I don’t know how many of you know the actual making of this holy book called Vedvani which was published in three volumes.  Vedvani is a collection of various divine messages written by Sri Sri Thakur through letters to all His devotees at different times. Actually, a great devotee of our Gurudev called Sri Indubhushan Banerjee who was a friend of Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty and who was also a Professor in Calcutta University like Prabhat babu worked hard to collect various letters written by Sri Sri Thakur to His various devotees at various times.  Indu babu used to avoid the beginning & concluding paras of these letters which used to include the personal matters of those devotees and collect only the divine messages given there which were mostly given in the centre paras of those letters. This task was not an easy one which required enormous dedication & patience and of course pure devotion at the holy feet of Sri Sri Thakur.  When many of our Gurudev’s devotees came to know of Indu babu’s desire they all supported him whole heartedly and started sending him those letters for the benefit of the mankind and so infact we all should be thankful to all those devotees who had helped him in this pious deed. We all have a debt towards that great devotee of Sri Sri Thakur, Indu babu because of whom we are having great words of wisdom of our holy Gurudev through Vedvani!!  Vedvani can be referred to as Sri Sri Thakur Himself  and who guides or rather I should say talk to His devotees through this book!! I am sure many of you would have experienced this thing during some time of your life. At least I can mention some of my experiences here. It so happened once that I was in a utsav of our Gurudev listening to mahanaam sankirtan & was fully lost into it. Many devotees present there were crying while listening to the naam sankirtan, whereas I wasn’t!! Suddenly, a person sitting next to me remarked that one should cry out of love for his God while listening mahanaam & if you don’t then it means you have committed loads of sin so thats why tears are not coming out of your eyes!! I felt very dejected & sad at heart after hearing that remark and thought that may be what that person is saying is correct and I have committed many sins!! In the night while going to sleep, I took Vedvani and prayed to Gurudev to guide and opened it. The message which was given in Bengali was “Samoyik Kirtone boshe Haslam Kandlam, Pore Abar Jogote Moje Gelam, Ete Kichu Hoibo Na” (the moral was that if you laugh or cry while listening to the Kirtan only or for that period only and afterwards resort back to your old traits or habits that will not yield any results!!) can you imagine here the message is so clear and to the point!! Now here try to understand this divine message given by Sri Sri Thakur.   Actually this is done by almost all of us!! I have seen many people even some of our Guru brothers/sisters who regularly visit ashrams or temples, listen to sankirtan or discourses given by the acharyas, read Vedvani, Srimad Bhagvad Gita or Bhagvatham, Ramayan etc. all their whole life but their natural habits never change!! Same jealousy, hatred, anger, lust, greed, proudness etc. remains forever in them till their death!! Why?? The answer lies in the above message of Vedvani!! The meaningfulness of these holy scriptures lies in changing your inner self not just mere reading like a parrot or copy/pasting (what we do in computers)!! Now this reminds me of a story told by one acharya. It goes like this that there were some parrots in a sadhu’s ashram and that sadhu daily used to teach them to say as “a hunter would come, lay his trap, he will put some grains & don’t fall into his trap”. Now these parrots would chant these words daily and then one day actually a hunter came, laid his trap & put some grains there to trap these parrots!! These parrots continued saying those mugged up words but subsequently on seeing those grains fall at the trap of the hunter also!!! While caught in the trap also the parrots were chanting those words!!! So most of the people have become like those parrots who without trying to understand the indepth meaning of the holy scriptures and trying to imbibe those divine messages into their life just repeat them again & again!!  Taking this opportunity I would also like to mention here that just like discussing the divine past times or leelas of Lord can be treated as equivalent to naam sankirtan similarly discussing about these divine messages or teachings given by our Gurudev can also be given the same status as naam sankirtan!! Remember discussion is always good but argument is bad as discussion is to find what is right and argument is to find who is right!!  Discussion can be like what I told earlier about my experience, in the same way another devotees can share his also or what message we are getting from it!! Moreover, a devotee can always discuss on these spiritual matters very easily not a gyani (learned) who doesn’t want to listen anything because he thinks that he knows everything!! If your glass is full and there is no space for more then you cannot have it but a devotee always keep his glass half empty to accept!! Just as what I said aforesaid about discussion, I will tell you about a friend of mine who is also a devotee of our Gurudev, about his experience. He wanted to purchase a flat in Delhi and had applied for a house loan in his office but the loan was not sufficient to meet the cost of the flat so he applied for a partial withdrawal from his Provident Fund Account. But you know the working speed of our Indian Government offices, PF office was taking too much time and subsequently the day of registry came near & that friend of mine became very much worried!! The owner of the flat was not agree to wait even for a single day as he was staying abroad and he had came to India for selling off his flat. My friend was left with no other option but to take the balance money from somewhere else but he had read in Vedvani somewhere that lending money to somebody and taking debt from somebody both are wrong as it takes away the peacefulness from both sides (means one who has given & one who has taken because who has given will always worry about his money till he gets it back and who has taken will always worry till he repays it back)!! He told me about his problem and asked that Sri Sri Thakur had prohibited about this practice of taking debt then what to do?? Here I would like to point out one thing that understanding Vedvani properly required Gurudev’s divine blessings and moreover those divine messages were written by Him to His various devotees depending upon their mental status, situation, time, problems etc. Whatever it is, I asked him to take the shelter of the same Vedvani again which had prohibited him from debting the money earlier and pray to the holy Gurudev and seek its guidance. Accordingly my friend prayed to Sri Sri Thakur and opened it & what message he got it was “Boro Loker Sahajjo Bhinno Obosthar Marjona Ki Koriya Hoibo, Nunyota Shikar Koira Lao” (which means it is not possible to solve the current situation without the help from a rich person, so accept that)! After that my friend requested his office colleagues to help and they all came forward very happily to his rescue and asked him that why he didn’t informed them earlier about this problem of his!! Like this there are hundreds of examples I can give!! If you read the Holy Vedvani daily the same divine message or letter what you would have read earlier for a different problem would give you another solution for another problem!! This is the greatness of Vedvani!! So one should not treat Vedvani as an ordinary book, actually it is Sri Sri Thakur Himself!!

All Glory to Sri Vedvani!! Jai Ram!

The Divine Janmashtami

THE THREE DIVINE GOPALAS AT MY HOME

First of all, I wish all my Guru brothers & sisters all around the globe A VERY VERY HAPPY SRI KRISHNA JAYANTI!!! The Almighty Lord who is the creator, preserver & destroyer of this whole & unlimited universe came on this planet earth on this very very auspicious day and blessed us all & our planet with His holy divine past times!! One place one acharya was saying that Lord is all powerful, if he had to establish the sanatan dharm on this earth or to kill the asuras, the negative forces, He with just a wish itself could have done it very easily. There was no need for Him to take birth then what was the reason behind taking birth?? The answer is very obvious!! To bless us all with His divine leelas which would be sung, heard various times by us & which subsequently help us to know & love Him. The Nirakar Brahm becomes Sakar and comes here to bless us so that we could get to know Him easily & attain bhakti in His holy lotus feet!! The gyanis who always shout God is nirakar, nirakar for them this is the best answer as that nirakar only want us to know Him in sakar form also!! Even after nearly 6000 years have gone since He came in this world & left, His divine past times still seem to be so fresh and evergreen!! It is because He is God & it is a Godly matter (or God Particle as told by Higgs Boson) !!! Let whatever happen, let many many years went by, the science or technology achieves new feats or the advanced technology brings before us new gadgets latests are i phone, i pad, apple laptops, computers, america trying hard to get some information from Mars etc. Lord Sri Krishna's  glories, achievements, divine past times, beauty, love, friendship etc.about which  various song have been sung by various devotees, poets, bhaktas for the last 6000 years in this whole universe & till even now also are being sung by us and would always be sung, when we would not be here!! Lord's divine name would be always there even when this universe would not be there!! People are mad after the heros of our bollywood & hollywood film industry who seem to them very attractive & beautiful, I feel sad for them and take pity on them!! In this whole universe there can be nobody more attractive or beautiful than Lord Sri Krishna!! During Vindavan leela, it so happened once that Kamdev who is devta of Kam (lust) became a bit proudy that nobody in this universe could escape the attack of the hit of my arrow of lust!! Kam another word in sanskrit means Madan!! Kamdev thought that Lord Sri Krishna is always surrounded of hundreds of gopis then why not attack Him also with my arrows!! Kamdev said to be most beautiful among all the devtas. The Kamdev went to vrindavan with his bow & arrows but when he saw Lord Sri Krishna, he felt himself to be attacked with Kam!!! Seeing the Lord's unlimited & divine beauty he became mad & out of this he became senseless & fainted and fall at the feet of Sri Krishna, thus Lord gets another name as MADANMOHANJI!! means one who even attracted the Kam!! I think for those people about whom I told aforesaid running after the heroes to them only Lord referred to as Fools in the Srimad Bhagvad Gita!! Jai Govind!! Once again WISH YOU ALL A VERY VERY HAPPY JANMASHTAMI!!   

All Are Welcome!!

The leela of divine Gurudev is really great!! somehow I have come to know that those people are also visiting this blog of Sri Sri Thakur who in the past were against me or my views!! They are visiting here secretely thinking that I will not come to know of it but who can escape of Pundarik eyes of Sri Gurudev! and it is He who let me know somehow!! whatever it is they are also most welcome here, afterall they are also His devotees!! The best thing here is that they cannot hurl abuses at me which they did in facebook!! and moreover I am thankful to them also because it is only they who insipired me to start this blog because here I can sing the glories of my eternal Gurudev in any way and as much as I want!! This is my worship and this is my devotion for Him and they cannot stop or advise me on this!!  Their negative remarks only made me to withdrew from the facebook and open a blog of my beloved Lord Sri Sri Ram Thakur & here I can do anything at my free will!! Jai Sri Ram!! 

The Great Devotee, Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty

Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty was one of the very lucky disciples who was very dear & close to our beloved Gurudev!! There were many incidents where we find that there was very much love & affection between them and which was the basis of their relationship!!  Prabhat babu’s devotion at the holy lotus feet of Sri Sri Ramthakur was of so much higher standards that it is impossible to reach that stage without the grace or mercy of Sri Sri Thakur!! He  very often used to keep the holy feet of Sri Gurudev at his chest and chant loudly the full 11th Chapter from Srimad Bhagvad Gita where about the vishwaroop of Lord Sri Krishna & subsequently singing of the Lord’s glory by Arjuna has been described!! When he used to chant that chapter, tears of immense devotion & love would roll down his eyes & Sri Sri Thakur would also sit motionless looking at Prabhat babu!! When Prabhat babu met Gurudev for the first time before his arrival itself Gurudev said to everybody present there “a big ship of knowledge is coming here!!” Prabhat babu put before Sri Sri Thakur many questions to which all of them Gurudev replied very happily, after this Prabhat babu fall at the holy feet of Sri Sri Thakur and requested to forgive him!! His love for Gurudev was so much that even used to scold Him also manyatimes out of worry for the safety & care of Guruji!! Once it so happened that a young devotee was going through a court case through which he would get some property if he wins and for that he had needed one witness who would stood before the judge and confirm that he knows him & he is of good character. He approached many friends or known people but nobody accepted it & then he requested Sri Sri Thakur to do this favour to him to which Gurudev immediately agreed!! On the day of hearing Sri Sri Thakur became ready before time by wearing some good clothes & shoes in his feet and started waiting for that young devotee who had gone to fetch some conveyance to reach the court. Exactly at that moment Prabhat babu arrived in that house and became surprised to Sri Sri Thakur so beautifully dressed and prepared to go somewhere. He asked Gurudev as is He going somewhere? Seeing Prabhat babu Sri Sri Thakur also became little worried as Gurudev knows him very well. Sri Sri Thakur didn’t utter a single word & this made Prabhat babu very suspicious as something is going wrong here!! He immediately went inside the house and asked the house owner and came to know of everything and this was sufficient to made him furious!! He came back and started scolding Gurudev as what is need of Him going to the court and if He doesn’t go there that young fellow wouldn’t find anybody else in this whole world??etc. By that time that young devotee returned with the conveyance to take Gurudev & seeing him Prabhat babu literally pounced on him and started shouting on him as how dare you taking Sri Sri Thakur to the court?? You don’t have minimum respect to a holy figure about whom you didn’t thought twice before using Him for your materialistic gains!! That young fellow immediately understood his fault and fall at the holy feet of Gurudev & requested Him to forgive to which Gurudev told him to not to feel bad and that Prabhat babu love Sri Sri Thakur very much thats why care for Him so much!! Another incident happened once when a theft took place at the house of a devotee and he started lamenting before Sri Sri Thakur that you were there but still it happened.  Hearing this Prabhat babu became angry and started shouting on Sri Sri Thakur making audible to that devotee as “instead of being a Guru now start guarding your devotee’s houses otherwise they are not going to spare you.” Once Sri Sri Thakur was travelling along with some other devotees in a train in 3rd class (those days this class was existing which may be todays 2nd class sleeper). Prabhat babu was also among them and during the journey what he did left everybody wondering about his deep & immense devotion at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Thakur!! Gurudev was travelling bare feet which was His old habit and very often was visiting the toilet (railways indian toilet’s condition is known to all of you which are very unclean!) and every time Gurudev came back Prabhat babu who was wearing a very costly dhoti & kurta would wipe very gently & carefully the feet of Sri Sri Thakur with his dhoti and would rub that portion of his dhoti onto his own head!! An old man who was also travelling in the same class and sitting next to them was watching this for a very long time and at the end couldn’t control his curiosity and asked Sri Sri Thakur in typical eastern-bengali language as “Ini Ki Apnar Chaila?” (“is he your son?”) At this Sri Sri Thakur replied  “Ho!” (“Yes!”) How blessed, how blessed is Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty Mohashoy!! Had Sri Sri Thakur said this for me I would have died immediately on that spot itself out of immense happiness!! Prabhat babu’s devotion was unmatchable indeed!! Another incident I remember when Prabhat babu and many other devotees along with Sri Sri Thakur planned for a vacation outside Kolkata to Puri and as decided they all hired some rooms in a lodge at Puri. During that time Prabhat babu suddenly got a telegram from Kolkata that his daughter is severely sick & ill due to cholera (those days cholera was being treated as a very deadly disease) Everybody suggested Prabhat babu to leave immediately for home to which he laughed and said “what are you saying?? Are you mad?? Whatever is in the fate of my daughter that would happen otherwise also!! There is money at the home and the doctor is also available in the city, my family can care of her very well! I am not going from here at any cause!!”

When the Durga Puja was being celebrated at Sri Sri Kaibalyadham, Pahartali, Chittagong by making an idol of the Goddess, Prabhat babu ran to Gurudev and enquired from Him whether He had ordered for this worshipping by making an idol!! When Sri Sri Thakur told that He didn’t ordered for idol making instead asked all the devotees for celebrating Durga-Utsav!! Prabhat babu only told everybody after confirming from Sri Sri Thakur that not only the Durga Puja, infact all the dieties can be worshipped on the portrait of Sri Sri Thakur itself!! Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty who was a great Sanskrit scholar at Calcutta University even wrote the famous Sri Ram Stotra & Kaibalya Stotra which is dear to all of us now!! Prabhat babu while trying for Doctorate degree once lamented before Sri Sri Thakur that “it will not possible for me to get the degree as there is another person who is more learned & qualified than me!!” At this Sri Sri Thakur said “don’t worry, both of you will get it!” Prabhat babu said “then you guide me, on what ground I should be preparing my thesis!” Sri Sri Thakur replied “you write that language is the basis!!” Actually it happened what Sri Sri Thakur told!! Even after Prabhat babu died, his soul is always with Sri Sri Thakur as confirmed by Himself!! About him only Gurudev once had said that Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty is that mahapurush who would again take birth after 100 years and would spread the greatness of Kaibalyadham all around the globe and would also work for establishing the  eternal religion (Sanatan Dharm ) on earth!! All glory to Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty Mohashoy, the dearest disciple of Sri Sri Ram Thakur!! Jai Sri Ram!!

The Great Devotee Sri Kichanlal

A GOD EXCLUSIVELY FOR HIS DEVOTEES, SRI SRI RAMTHAKUR

Dear Guru brothers/sisters!! This is in continuation to the earlier post about Sri Kichanlal whose devotion at the holy lotus feet of Sri Sri Ramthakur was unmatchable!!  Sri Sadananda babu who wrote this book had mentioned about Kichanlal something more that he tried his level best find out about the whereabouts of the family or the descendants of Kichanlal in Kolkata somewhere but that went in vain. After searching for some months or years he left his quest and forgot about it and then suddenly one day after some forty years in the beginning of 1980s he came to know of something interesting or say startling from one of his friend called Prakash Srivastav who had came from Ahmedabad, Gujarat to visit him at the annual utsav of Sri Sri Thakur being organised at the Tundla ashram at UP. He said that few months back he had happened to visit Anand City in Gujarat for some business work and there he went in a big garments emporium/shop to purchase some cloths where he saw a portrait of Sri Sri Kaivalyanath hanging on the wall!! (Kichanlal was originally from Gujarat) This made him curious to find out the reason behind our Gurudev’s photo in such a place where there is least chance that the people would be knowing about Him. He asked the shop owner and he told that this is a portrait of a great saint from Bengal & that they are not his disciples but they keep it because they have a belief among them that if this picture is kept at their place of work they would gain high profits in their business & actually it happens!! When Prakash narrated all the incidents it make Sadananda babu very curious and the hope of finding Kichanlal’s family became little brighter. Sadananda babu asked Prakash to gather some more information about the family and report back next time when he visits here. Next time when he visited him & what he told made it clear that there is no doubt that this is the family or the descendants of Kichanlal!! When Prakash asked them that since when this practice is going on they told that it is a very old practice in their family & it is going on since their great great grandfather Kichanlal who was a disciple of Sri Sri Thakur went away with him & disappeared from Kalighat temple at Kolkata. Another practice he told that whenever there is a marriage in the family they all go to the Kalighat temple at Kolkata to get blessings & for worshipping!! (remember Sri Kichanlal was lastly seen there only and he had vanished from there after receiving the mahanaam from Sri Sri Thakur!!). If the portrait gets worn out or damaged due to some reason they bring a new portrait from Kalighat at Kolkata & reinstall it. Srivastav told that he tried to know more about the practice of keeping our Guruji’s photo to which they told they know nothing more than this but there was somebody in their family who could have helped him if would have came few months early. That person is their great grandfather who is staying on the upstairs of the shop as the shop is on the ground floor of their house. He is very weak & old and has already crossed 90 years of age & recently he had got cerebral attack recently which made him paralysed & therefore he cannot speak or hear properly!!  Srivastav somehow managed to reach the great grandfather and tried to know about the origin of this practice. After struggling hard to converse with that old person he came to know he is the son of Sri Kichanlal!!! And he told that after Kichanlal vanished from Kalighat, his mother winded up their business from Kolkata and came to Gujarat long time back.   After listening everything from Prakash, Sadananda babu decided to visit Anand City but suddenly an incident made him started thinking that Sri Sri Thakur doesn’t want him to visit that place!! Immediately few days later Prakash came & told that a big fire accident took place in that shop and that old man who was staying on the upstairs died due to heart attack out of panic and suffocation!! The incident was an indication from Sri Sri Thakur to not to proceed any more in this matter!! At some place a lady asked Sri Sri Thakur that He is always roaming here & there all alone & she worries for Him to which He told that He is never alone because Sri Kichanlal & Sri Prabhat Chandra Chakraborty are always with Him!! GREAT GREAT DISCIPLES OF A GREAT GURU & GOD!!

False Stories related with Sri Sri Thakur

MUKTIDATA BHAGAWAN SRI RAM

Many books have been written about our beloved Gurudev by his various devotees. Some so-called devotees have even imitated or repeated the same stories word by word and published it under their names which is done by many people even now also and which is quite amazing.  But it is very unfortunate and sad to say that the actual facts have been modified & changed and subsequently which have been reported wrongly by them. Questions may arise here that how come I know the true facts behind them, so the answer is that I happened to get one authentic book written by one Sri Sadananda Chakraborty who was a close & brahmachari devotee of Sri Sri Thakur and who was one of few lucky disciples to have long association with our Guruji. He had also investigated those stories told by the other devotees and found out them to be totally wrong. He thought that it is his duty to correct them and which he did it in his book called Chonnabotar Sri Sri Ramthakur.  You all would have very often came to know about one fact in the various books written by the various devotees that Sri Sri Thakur had once worked as a cook in a house and would use to get salary from them for the job and which Gurudev used to send to his mother for their use which is absolutely false and wrong!! Sri Sadananda Chakraborty had talked to the person about whom’s house the story had been given and enquired from them about which they informed that it is totally baseless and wrong!! Infact they felt it to be a great offence at his holy lotus feet by keeping Sri Sri Thakur as a cook in their house whom they always used to consider a great mahapurush!! They felt very bad after reading about this story which is factually wrong & moreover Sadananda babu also came to know that the financial condition of Sri Sri Thakur’s family at Bangladesh was not so bad that He had to work as a cook in somebody’s house!! Sri Sri Thakur’s other brothers were already financially very much comfortable and were not having any problem in running the family expenses. I don’t know how all these wrong stories about our Gurudev have been started & written by certain so-called devotees as before reading this particular book I was also under the wrong impression about the abovementioned story!!  

This is one story now I would like put before another story of one of great devotee and one of the first to whom Sri Sri Thakur gave Sri Naam. His name was Sri Kichanlal who was a Marwari businessman and about whom also many people wrote wrong things in their books. First I would tell you the wrong & modified version given by these so-called devotees in their books. According to them Sri Kichanlal came to know about Sri Sri Thakur and wanted to take diksha from Him to which his mother & wife didn’t agreed & subsequently he locked himself into a room and didn’t opened it for many days. Lastly, his wife requested Kichanlal’s mother to give consent and brought Sri Sri Thakur to their house, Gurudev called out his name and he opened the door and Gurudev entered the room and immediately closed the door!! After sometime Gurudev came out and everybody saw that Sri Kichanlal ran out the room and jumped out of the house and vanished into the air!! After that nobody never saw him again!! But this is a totally modified & distorted story!! Actual story is Kichanlal met our Gurudev at a Shiva temple long long time ago where Guruji used to meditate and there was a dhuni infront of Him which used to burn always. Local villagers used to pay their respects to Gurudev regularly taking Him to be a great saint and would use to take home and eat the ashes from that dhuni which used to cure them from various incurable diseases!! The local people had this belief that it happens only because of the power of our Gurudev only!! Kichanlal understood that this is not an ordinary sadhu and it is only our Guruji only who can give him salvation from this materialistic world!! He fall at his holy lotus feet one night & requested for naam diksha. At first Gurudev tried to avoid him but when he didn’t listened and started crying for mercy, His heart melted and asked him take permission from his family members. For the permission he had to struggle hard and when at last they agreed for it he ran to meet Sri Sri Thakur at the Shiva temple but when he reached there Gurudev had already left that place and after that he couldn’t find him for long time. After many years once Kichanlal was going to give puja at the Kalighat temple in Kolkata alongwith his family when he saw Sri Sri Thakur standing on the way to the temple with His other Guru brothers. On seeing Him, he jumped and asked his family people to go and give puja and he would meet them after he gets diksha from his Gurudev. He fall at the holy lotus feet of our Gurudev and requested for diksha and also told that his family had already given their consent for the same. Gurudev didn’t looked at him at all and stood still. Kichanlal kept on repeating his request at Gurudev’s holy feet again & again but Gurudev stood undeterred. Then Kichanlal started rubbing his nose, forehead & face on the road itself due to which he got severely injured & there was blood all around the road. Seeing this Sri Sri Thakur’s Guru brothers became worried and felt sympathy for Kichanlal and requested to Sri Sri Thakur to have mercy on him. Gurudev then suddenly blew a mild air into his ear and immediately after that Kichanlal vanished (he became Videhi from Dehi). Immediately after this incident Sri Sri Thakur’s Gurudev appeared there and said “Oh, so now you want to become a Guru!!” saying this Holy Gurudev of Sri Sri Thakur vanished!! Actually before Kichanlal Guruji never gave Sri Naam to anybody & Kichanlal was the first one to whom Gurudev gave diksha!! Manyatimes Guruji used to say that since He has given mukti to Kichanlal, His Gurudev has ordered Him to not to stay at one place for long time and that He will never be able to enter any ashram of Him!! So this is the actual and true story of Sri Kichanlal and his devotion is unmatched!! Actually he had many karmas and without undergoing those mukti is not or say never possible but it is only Guru who can nullify all those karmas and give you salvation but it depends on Gurudev whether He will give it or not, it is completely His will. It is your pure devotion only like Kichanlal through which you can take from Him forcefully!! I request all of you to please try to find out this book called Chonnabatar Sri Sri Ramthakur written by Sri Sadananda Chakraborty. It is a very thick book where you can find many unknown & great facts about our beloved Gurudev!! Jai Sri Ram!!