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!!