Thakur Anukulchandra was born on 14 September 1888. In a small village
called Himaitpur in the Pabna district of the eastern zone of Bengal (the then
undivided India) which is now in Bangladesh, lord came to save this world. He
was born to Sri. Shibchandra Chakravarty (Shandilya Gotra, Kanyakubja Brahmin)
and Manmohini Devi.
Anukulchandra was extremely mother centric, from his early life. His mother remained
his guru throughout his life. He was lover of the mankind. Anukulchandra set up
an Ashram at Pabna (later it was named Satsang). At Deoghar in India 1946 for
fostering spiritual development a new Ashram had been set up by him. Eventually
Satsang ashram at Deoghar became a major place of attraction in Deoghar fo all
kind of people in the society. Satsang is set up on its four ideals which are education,
agriculture, industry, and good marriage. As a matter of fact he did not 'set
up' any organization or institution. The organization started to be evolved
around Thakur Anukulchandra. Charitable hospitals, a publishing house, engineering
workshops, a printing press and schools came up over there to help the
organization to be strong. Through-out his life he never wrote any book except
one – ‘Satyanusaran' (The Pursuit of Truth), which was only a letter to one of
his friend Atulchandra. Conversations of various people with Sri Sri Thakur was
recorded and published latter. And his direct sayings were compiled. This gave
birth to the huge literature of his sayings. Among all these Satyanusaran, Anushruti,
Punyapunthi, Pritibinayak, Chalar Sathi, Adarsh Binayak, Shashvati, Alochana
Prasange series, Deeprakkhi series, Vigayn Vibhuti, The Message series, Vivah
Prasange volumes, Who Thou The Revolutionar are unique pieces.
Anukulchandra had initiated a possession (called 'Dikhsha') by his mother on
behalf of Huzur Maharaj. Huzur Maharaj was from Radhaswami Satsang, Dayalbagh,
Agra. However Thakur had been showing tremendous spiritual signs right from his
advent. He always used to do 'Kirton'/Naam-Kirton ("Hare Rama- Hare
Krishna") with his friends and followers. Regularly he was getting into
trance which was sometimes remaining even for more than 6 hours. He used to
utter something during these trances and these are recorded and known as
“messages”. These were later collected and published in Punyapunthi. All these
around him made him to be addressed as “Thakur”.
Mother Monmohini Devi was deeply inclined towards
spiritualism, mainly towards prayer and meditation to The Almighty. She had the
initiation from Huzurji Maharaj. The spiritualism consolidated within her was initiated
by Huzurji Maharaj. In 1946 Thakur went to Deoghar in Bihar. And Deoghar ashram
came up there as well. He proclaimed that until the marriage system in the
human society does not take place as per the rules of Varnashram, there will be
no peace and harmony in the world. All development work will happen to be
futile.
