Shri Shri Thakur Anukulchandra

A Divine Profile

The craving urge of life is to sustain its existence and to be expanded.

We find in the life resting in grass or grasshopper, in fish or fisherman,
in fly or butterfly, the same craving urge of existence and existential
grown pervades. To find a final solution a man rest at one place, person
or time and arrests the surroundings. Sometimes like a monkey
climbing on an oily stump proceeds and recedes, man fails to reach the
peak. Man with broken heart is pulled into the pythonic yawn, where he
gets no way out for survival. The earnest prayer for rescue at last brings
the creator unto earth with solid body and soul in the shape of a man.
Among all impossibilities He makes Him possible. The Providence turns
into a man with blood and bone, among all banes His adventure is the
only boon.
While petals of life fading like a book eaten by weevils His arrival on
this earth sways up all dirts. He showers peace and bliss, shows the way
to grow in mirth. His benign grace awakens the world into supra-
consciousness from the bed of deep slumber. The floods of radiant rays
from everywhere evaporate the ugly darkness. The flowers diffuse the
sweet fragrance of His presence. The birds twitter about Him The
rainbows reflect the light and colour of the Almighty.
The heart of the uncountable upheave by the august touch of His
divine compassion and sonorous blessings. The philosophers, poets.
Scientists, diplomats, agrarians and people of gigantic personalities pay
their homage at His lotus feet. Poets affirm their sensible feelings on
Him as their poetry of palatable rhythms, luster of serenade, abode of
eternity and fountain of joy.
By His advent reorientation of consciousness, knowledge, true wisdom
prevail on the earth His enshrining personality changes the oxidentation
of blind customaries and dark thoughts into reorientation if wisdom .
He comes, guides, goads and makes life glorious in the global context
from encircling gloom. He is the latest manifestation of humanity, the
greatest of greats of human society. Purusottam, the embodiment of
dharma, the upholder of existence, in whom conglomeration of all ideas
and isms turn into existentialism.
On 14th September 1888, in a radiant dawn Anukulchandra was born
to Sri Shivachandra Chakravarty and mother monomohini Devi, like a
luster of light after a long dismal rainy night. From a little distance of
the village Himaitpur, the groups of fishermen could see the flames of
light touching the sky from inside the village, while they resorted to
fishing in the river Padma. They rushed into the village with an
apprehension of setting fire to any household and were taken aback to
know the advent of tiny child to Chakravarty family. The child was in a
smiling face with bald head. The people were astonished to see such
mysterious child.
At the outset of His early childhood days, it was found that He had a
stron fascination towards His mother. She was the centre of the entire
life-style of Sree Sree Thakur. Mother Monomohini had a strong
personality with master-minding ability. Her sincere love, efficient
domestic management, unparalleled attitude attitude to service,
adhesive devotion made her a coordinating factor of the society.
Sree Sree Thakur was brought up by her caressing farsights. Sree Sree
Thakur troubled her with His consistent obstinacy. One he lost all His
sense and kept mum for a few seconds got back His sense as after a deep
long sleep. It was a state of trance of the child, but the people around
thought the child might have been affected by epilepsy --- a disastrous
disease of unconsciousness. From the very beginning of His childhood,
He was chanting the name enthusiastically and sometimes He facing the
state of trance. At the age of 12 (twelve) he was initiated by mother Rev.
Monomohini Devi. Just after the completion of, Sree Sree Thakur lost
His consciousness for a while and got back His former state with a
commentary, “Mother, I had been reciting this mantra from the very
moment of my arrival to your sacred womb and since then I have been
accustomed t it.” Sree Sarkar Saheb, the then guru of the Agra Satnami
sect, at that very moment brethed his last with utterance of these words
“Kam fateh” and left his mundane abode, who did advise mother
Monmohini to initiate her child.
Sree Sree Thakur continued His education in the Pabna High School
up to class X . According to Sree Sree Thakur, He was hightly impressed
by the following maxims in His study, i.e., “Do unto others as you wish
to be done by” and “Thy necessity is greater than mine” which he
practiced all through His life. Sree Sree Thakur deposited His own fees
for entrance examination in favour of one of His friends who had no
means to raise the fees, with the consequence that Sree Sree Thakur
himself could not sit for the examination. By that time, people successful
in school final exams were offered the dignified post of Sub-Deputy
Collector and Magistrate for which Sree Sree Thakur had no
inclination. Sree Sree Thakur started volunteering as a porter in the
adjascent steamer ghat and felt enormous humiliations of those down-
throdden people. His joining as a porter brought disgrace to His family
and to the species of educated mass. By the suggestion of an eminent
person He reached Kolkata to continue His studies in the National
Medical School, where at first He was denied admission as He had not
the pass certificate of Matriculation. By virtue of His talents and ready
wits He could come out successful by facing an interview board and got
Himself admitted int the medical school. Sree Sree Thakur experienced
heavy torment of financial stringency in these days, with which millions
of Indians were acutely acquainted, remaining far below the poverty
line. He managed Himself among the coolies and porters at the Sealdah
station, who were trodden down by financial adversities, disillusioning
illiteracy and hard-pressed by their ugly habits and instincts, totting
under the swampy dormitories. Sree Sree Thakur served them
sympathetically as one of their kiths and kin and tried to skin their ugly
habits. To be freed from the financial adversities, Sree Sree Thakur
practiced homoeopathy with the help of the book ‘Materia Medica’.
During these days Sree Sree Thakur did not post any letter to His
parents describing his simmering grief.
In His medical course Sree Sree Thakur did not appear at some of the
final papers for which He could arrange no certificate. To Him,
‘Holding certificate prompt and promotes the heinous syndromes of
egoism and arrogance.’
Returning home, Sree Sree Thakur practiced medicine in Pabna.
Shortly after, He reached the pinnacle of fame as a quick healer. The
patients and their relatives began to trust His ability. He was not a mere
practitioner by handing over the prescriptions but tried to nourish His
patients with motherly affections. Suddenly He would step down at the
door of some patient and inquire about the patient and timely appliance
of the medicines. His advice stressed upon preventives than curing the
diseases, Sree Sree Thakur watched over His patients and found that
time and again people suffered from the same type of disease. He found
the causes of disease are more mental. Unnatural longings and
unsatisfied sensual urge were, He realized, behind the diseases. In order
to restore peace and tranquility Sree Sree Thakur stressed upon
initiation of the people, unicentric love and infatuation towards the
Ideal, the repetition in chanting of the mantras, to profess and
propagate the Ideal among immediate neighbourhood, to offer
unconditional and volitional oblations daily and regularly at His lotus
feet. He also found that the men around Him were illiterate, poverty-
stricken, disintegrated and ignorant. They knew not the principle of
‘live and let live’. So the people time and again suffered from disease
and tolls of death were increasing. Sree Sree Thakur, by His charming
behaviour and timely service could draw the love of the people. He culd
become the cove-centre and master of the people. Sree sree Thakur had
a charming tone and resorted to Kirtan among those people. He
composed kirtans, sang those with His charming voice, sprang into the
dances to sweet melodies of the kirtans. He could become the queen-bee
in the bee-hive. Day and night became one with Him. Giving His
practice up, He devoted much of His time to kirtan. By diving deep into
the kirtan Sree Sree Thakur got the state of Trance. Losing his
consciousness, He was chanting the sermons, which were inscribed and
later published as ‘Holy Book’. The first line as such is ‘Ami chai
Suddha atma,’ (the sacred souls are solicited by me). Out of deep
devotion people started to name Him as Sree Sree Thakur, their Love-
lord.
Swarms of people from far and near came to Sree Sree Thakur, began
to live with Him, sharing His common kitchen, Anandabazar. They left
behind their hearth and home, triumps and treasure, tempts and
tenacies of dignity, resided in the small cottages on the bank of Padma.
Revolving round the Love-Lord, the master they rendered their service
by which a small neighbourhood within which nurtured the alluring
institutions like scientific laboratories, chemical and herbal industries,
carpentry, cottage industries, Tapovan School etc. were established. Far
frkom the modern township and madding crowd, at the bosom of the
nature among the people who were rotting under poverty and illiteracy,
‘The New Maker of Destiny’ made a beautiful divine neighbourhood
just like a fragrant flower opens its petals in the deep and dense forest.
Being endowed with man power, having no penny in the pocket, the
richest of rich of the whole world Sree Sree Thakur started eradicating
death, disease, disintegration, ignorance and poverty blowing no
trumpet of His classic achievements.
Numerous men, sacrificing their ugly instincts and activities, revolved
in clockwise with discipline, only to satisfy their master Sree Sree
Thakur. Kishorimohan, Anantanath, Satish Goswami, Satish Joardar
were the cluster of his divine followers. I the later life Sushil Chandra
Bose, Krishna Prasanna Bhattacharya, Panchanan Sarkar came to Him.
With unrepelling adherence, they had served Sree Sree Thakur at their
utmost devotion throwing up the craving of the dignified post and the
lure of amassing money. People of great eminence like C. R. Das,
Calcutta, Gopinath Bordoloi. Janakinath Bose from Cuttack, Orissa,
Meghnad Saha came and after some discoursed offered themselves unto
Him.
Sree Sree Thakur got married to divine mother, most revered Sree
Sree Laxmi Maa (Soroshibala Devi) at the age of eithteen. Sree Sree
Laxmi Maa was also a source of inspiration and divine grace, who could
serve Him without being a back-pulling chain. She had activated the
Satsang Movement with Her caressing service and motherly attitude.
She lokmata, the embodiment of nature itself, the only instrument, who
could carry out the commands of Sree Sree Thakur as the limbs of a
body respond to the silent call of the mind, the master.
Sree Sree Thakur and Sree Sree Baroma by their paramount
parentship had gifted the whole world a child, Sree Sree Borda, His
divine grace. As the herbs get medicated, oceans get upsurged, the
night-queen diffuse the sweet fragrance, lunatics grow more fanatic by
the lunar-advent, so also Sree Sree Borda, the Pradhan Acharyadev had
yet been bestowing the divine blessing, under whose guidance the
Satsang had been well fostered like the royal garden in full grandeur. He
had been the nurse, the guide and the guardian of satsangees, radiantly
beaming as moon.
Sree Sree Thakur the founder of Satsang has command over the lives
and has given the directives on the art of living, that is dharma, the
upholder of existence. The great men come to materialize the idealism
whereas Purushottam Sree Sree Thakur has come to idealize the
materialism.
The main objectives of His arrival unto the earth may be spoken
through one symbolic story. Once a small kid went to the Ganges to
fetch some sacred water, with an earthen pot in his hands. While filling
water into the pot a surprising idea pricked into his mind that he should
take a very small amount water by the earthen-pot and reach at home
as quick as possible, lest the pot should melt by the touch of water. But
all on a sudden, he heard a voice from inside the pot. The pot said to the
kid all about its maker and mechanism. Now, if water is kept in the
water-pot for thousands of years, it will never melt though the same
ingredients of earth are still in it. Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra as
the pot maker has yet bee making man of His choice in His man-making
industry. Satsang. Satsang is a great gymnasium where lives are made
perfect and strong. Sree Sree Thakur is the engineer of soul and elixir of
being.
Courtesy July 2007 issue – article written by Dr. Parhi of Balasore, Orissa.