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PREFACE
CHAP- I PRELFMINAlRY
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'Whom we eall The Mother, once said that she heard from
.the elders that the day was the Sital Sasthi i.e. the sixth day
<>f the lunar period of Janu~u;y bu~. e.xact date was not known.
.By verifying this date With almanacks the exact date was
found to be 8th Magh 1283 B.S. or 20th January 1871,
.Saturday. The horoscope of Sri Sanyal Mahasay as drawn
.by late J. C. Gupta confirms this view.
. HIS EARLY LIF.E.-Sri Sanyal Mahasay w~s born in a
:small village known as Sadhanpara in the Pistr!ct of 1\l'adia
.iu West B<.mgal in a very devout family.-. Father. was Kaila~h
<Ch~pdra Sanyal .and mother was Sm.. Bhubaneswari Debi.
{ais f~ther was the Manager of-a Zamindary estate ~~d had
~four so,ns. and three daughters, Sanyal: Mahasay being the
~ou~gest son. . Later Kailasb Chandr.a had to shift to place
'. pf ~1s ma.ternal uncle at Sahebganj in Dt,. BhagaJpore, Bihafl.
.lt ~s clel;l-r that from his very childhood Bhupendra Nath :ha:.d
-:very hard.times. ; Although he had. great; talent, inw'Uigenqe
~nd, mempry, he had no luck of having: Un:iver.sity education
more.than the Entrance. Examination~ .. though he ;studiea
\later up to F. A. class. B.ut as there were many le.arn~d
in the family he ~ad no difficulty in getting ver~ 'bigh
educationalm~st in all subjects and patticulady in Sanskrit
.Janguage and hterature. He was devout and teligious but
not fanatic though conservative. He was very truthful 'and
~honest:so much so that once a Muslim: student of the school
.i~ which he studied,was in course of a quarrel amongst them:
selves assaulted by some other students. The HeadMaster, of
.au students, .requested only Bhupendra Nath to narrate the
~hoi~ fact to him. lt was found that be frequently. would
'~t stdl,and ~Diet or sing Kirtan ( religious songs) or siometuue:s dance In ecstasy imltatirig othet devotees.
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come and , so h.e is ; leaving them for a few minutes,
Returning after a few minutes be asked them whether they
saw his Guru. Alt answered in the negative except Sanyal
Mahasay who said that he saw a bright light going ou~ of the
room and nothing else.
After two years of Sanyal Mahasay's Diksha Sri Lahiry
Mahasay left his mortal body at Benares. Qettin~ the repcitt
San~al Mabasay immediately started for Benares hut o~
arriving there he found that all have gone away taking the
dead body for cremation. Not finding his Guru he began to
weep. After sometime he saw GuruJi b~fore him who said
that there is rto need to be so much upset bec;iuse .;..!Je. will,...
alwa~s remain near him though be will give .visit only
be tbmks. necessary. ( Own statement ). When be was 18]1~
ye~us of age Sri SanyaJ Mahasay could reach the stat~
Samadhi i.e. state of Tranquility or after-effect-poise ~i
Kriya wbe.n all becomes just one supreme consciousness.
f'A'ner hjs return to Sahebganj from Beneras, he devoti~ a~l
his energy for the culture of Basudeva Dharma i.e:, Religio~
of Love and Courage and Devoti9n amongst everybo~y.
Many
. persons and youths gathered round him for training-.
to c1_te only a:few~Prafullo Ch. Mazumdar, Jatindra Mohan
.Gupta, ~~nail~l Gu'pta, Jatindrf!. Mohan Biswas and others
.He organjsed- a club na~ed as B~sudey Clut> (B~sudev bei~g
l}aJ:Pe of: l,:.,ord Krishpa) .for 1 buil~ing .up youths physicaily
and m~ntally. He ~tarted an Assocj~tiop na~e~,s~nitl .
Sil,D'!harini Sabha i.e,, Association ,for spreading culture
m<>;r:~lity and,;or ~pititual l:).ll;d easthetic dev~lop~ent ~f: the
youths,~ v.;rh,o .1:1sed. to t~ke. bath)n the Q~n.ges. e~ery ea,rly ...
1DQr;nin:g a~p. ther~~fter .sit.. foT medjtatian: on tlie river bank
and recite verses from the Vedas etc., and th~n comin~ ho~e'' 1
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food. Please see that they are fed well befote the start of
the vacation, There is no doubt that the ca1;1se o~ their loss,
of we~ght an_d increasing wef1knesses i~ no other than lack of.
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.... you are having a lot of troubles, but endure everything
with a happy_ mind. What is to happen will happen. Over
and above that if we keep our niind worried,
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like giving up the helm because the waves are rising. Do not
allow the mind to be carried away by external .factors. l(eep
the mind fixed steadfastly with the eternal sanctuary that is
lying within our control and let happen what will happen.
Only ~ee that our connection with him is properly
.!llaintained"SANTAM SHIVADW AITAM'' i. e:, "Sbiva
or God is One and Still'....'' Keep the mind fixed on this so
long as you can, then only the mind will remain calin and
tranquil whether the situations are happy or not and the
low or immoral fascinations shall not be able to divert
us from gooq to evil.
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With Greetings.
For a long time I am nurturing a desire viz., to tour
around the whole of India along with you, nay, if possible,
the whole world with you. Methinks that after I get your
letter, this desire of mine will not go in valn. It is my
ardent desire to finish the Journey of this life in such a way.
I expressed this desire only because this time you have
,encouraged me,; I have no wish at all to remain tied with
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hearing these facts wished to have it and had )t. The same
thing occur~ed in his house too although-the doll was put ib
ashow case. The London friend round a Hindu Sannyasi
~ho was impressed with its appearance and brought it to
India and then at Puri before Sri Sanyal Mahasay who seeing
it said once that this image is living' i.e. Chaitanyamay
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of Sri Krishna. But surprisingly it was . seen in 'the early ~
morning that doll of Radhiks is lYing broken to pieces.
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_divine activities only as Gopal i.e. unmarried boy Gopal and
be wit~ have to be treated like that.. Before. coming to P~ri l
the deaty was sent to Dacca but th.ere also . the lady of the I
house told Sri Sanyal Mahasay that proper care of the deity
is not being taken, so he r~turned it to Sanyal Mahasay. ~
Priyabata Debi having asked for the same out of'tove the
deity was handed. over her about 40/50 years hac~ where die f~
deity remains calm, and quiet with many; activities
benefittng the family great deal even now. at the Salt Lake, _. _
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Mandar Episode
ETABL1SHMENT OF
MANDAR ASHRAM-The
Ourudham Ashram at Mandar is situate at about 6}8 miles
distance from the small town of Mandar Hill also known as
Madhusudan Nagar :(where the Mandar Hill is situate nearby)
:and the place of ~he Asram is now known as GURUDHAM.
'The Mandar Hill itself is medium sized hill with grooves
all around it measuring about 6 ft. in
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days thts Hill was used as a stirrer te pick up the nectar from
the ocean by the Gods in battle with the Asuras. i.e. the
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Divine .Activities
A few personal and real experiences of some ~isciples from
amongst many are reproduced hereunder ....
1. Sri Jwataprasad Tripathi-He was the principal Chela
or disciple of Sri Sanyal Mahasay along with Sri Nikhil Nath
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Dey who stayed with him and served him in all respect all'
along. He said that a few days before his demise Sri Gutu
told him "I did not come to this world alone, We_ were 9
persons who came all together. latin Biswas, Satish Chandra
Sinha and others. All of them have gone away. I am
waiting for one of them to born again and then 1 will depart.
Now I understand he is born and I will have to go. He. wm
be a leader in this line and :disclose his identity in proper
time~ In a letter to Sm. Khagendra Bala Dasi he wrote:
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7. RAI BAHADUR SARAT CHANDRA ROY CHOWDHURY'S STORY-Rai Bahadur was a government servant
posted at Bankura in 1934. At this time his daughter's.
marriage was settled there. But ~all on a sudden an order
came from higher authority for his transfer. He was in a
great fix; and was afraid that the settled fact of marriage may
be unsettled. and so worried. He came to. Sri Baba and told
his worries. Baba blessed him and told him not to worry.
Surprisingly the order of transfer was cancelled and everything passed of peacefully. In 1936 Rai Bahadur was
operated upon for gall Bladder" He bacame very. nervous.
and always thought of Baba who advised him not to worry,
Just after the operation he saw in a dream that a bird was
taking away all the stones from his stomach at;~d every
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morning Sri Baba entered into such aroom after telling us not
to disturb him or call him so long as he will remain in said
rc.~om. There was one wind,ow which also was closed. Many
'hours passed but Baba was not coming out. So we became
a bit worried. We suddenly found a black snake entering
into the room through a small hole. We became n .. ''"US and
anxious for Baba. Then disregatding his instruction one
of us slightly opened the window and found that the snake
was lying near the feet o Guruji who was stroking the head
of the snake as if for consolation. Later when asked, Sri
Baba said that this snake, in its previous life, was a human
being and his disciple but owing to some bad propensities .
of his he died early and was born as a snake and is still
suffering a lot of mental troubles having no peace. So he
asked for relief and that is granted. The snake died next
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Realisation from his hand to your hand. You will have to
iind it out yourself. Guru only shows the way.
10. His sins are vanished whose heart becoine eager for the
redress of others' griefs and sorrows. Unless yau behave in
this way, your body and soul will not get purified. And this
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13. We can crave for Him arid love or worship Him only
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