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!!