Biography
Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra was born on 14 September 1888, in the village of Himaitpur, in the Pabna District of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in Undivided India. His father was Sri Sivachandra Chakravarty (Shandilya Gotra Kanyakubja Brahmin) and his mother was Manomohini Devi. Both his parents were extremely devoted to God. His mother Manomohini Devi received Diksha (Initiation) in her dream when she was sleeping at the age of five and got the holy mantra (Satnam). Her Guru was Huzur Maharaj of Dayalbagh, Radhaswami Satsang of Agra.
From the very beginning, Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra was extremely devoted to his parents, and accepted his mother as his guru throughout his life. To propound and propagate his philosophy, he set up an Ashram first at Pabna (later it was named Satsang Ashram by his mother) and then at Deoghar in India in 1946. The Satsang ashram at Deoghar has now become a major attraction in Deoghar.
When Sri Sri Thakur was old enough, mother Monomohini Devi contacted Sri Sarkar Sahib (the successor of Huzur Maharaj) of Radhaswami Satsang, Dayalbagh, Agra for the purpose of Diksha. He instructed her through letter to give the diksha herself. During Diksha, she told young Anukulchandra the Holy Name, something he had been chanting from inside her womb. The moment the name reached him, he went into a slight trance state with the name vibrating throughout his whole being; in that state he saw a figure resembling Sarkar Sahib, the very same moment Sarkar Sahib died for the eternal abode, having been blessed by the vision of the Lord of all Lords in his final moment in some other realm. Sri Sri Thakur always regarded his mother as his Guru.
In his younger years (from around 24 to 26 years old) he would do Kirtan with his followers. Sometimes during kirtan, he would go into a trance, something common with the earlier Purushottams Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. But unlike them, he also spoke in an assortment of languages so varied and so many, that the lack of proper scribes resulted in most sayings not being written down. It was only later, when his name started spreading everywhere, that people of high educational merit started coming and they wrote down whatever they could understand and grasp amid this flurry of heavenly messages. His utterances of only 72 days were later collected and published in a book called Punyapunthi or The Holybook.
In 1946 he moved to Deoghar, where he left his mortal frame on 27 January 1969.
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