The Divine Profile

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 supraconsciousness 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 downthrodden 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 Lovelord. 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.