History
Acarya Shraddhananda Avadhuta The founder and first President of Ananda Marga with the Second President of Ananda Marga, the late Acarya Shraddhananda Avadhuta (1919-2008).On August 2, 1939 (at 8:30 pm, on the full moon day of Shravani Purnima), P.R. Sarkar initiated with Tantrikii Diiksa or "Tantric initiation" Kalicharan Bandyopadhyay (after aka Kalikananda Avadhuta) into meditation at Kashi Mitra Gh’at on the bank of the river Bhagirathi in Kalikata (Kolkata aka Calcutta), West Bengal, India. This was the start of Sarkar's spiritual teaching at the early age of 18 and many unknown Sadhakas ("spiritual aspirants") were initiated from then up to 1955. From 1941 until the early 1950s, Sarkar worked as an accountant at the Indian railways headquarters in Jamalpur, Bihar, India. He taught the techniques of ancient tantra meditation to a select number of his colleagues and gradually more and more people were drawn to the spiritual practices he taught.
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