I go to this house at Shyampukur. This house is located near the Town School. It's a wonderful place where you will feel cool and a wonderfully satisfying experience. This place looks from outside very simple and dull but when you enter and sit for a minimum 15 minutes in the prayer hall, you will see the change in you. The prayer hall located at the first floor is wonderful. It's a wonderfully silent and remarkably elegant. You might be a nonbeliever in God but it is a place where you are worshipping a person whose presence can be felt even though he is absent at present. There are some people whose deeds emerge bright among the millions of people because of the reputation of their religiousness to life and their respect for human beings. The teachings of Lord Ramkrishna is good for teaching in college and school as a compulsory paper. This is what I believe after reading the book I bought recently from Dakshineswar temple. This book was written by Swami Abhedananda. The book is written in Bengali. The name of the book is "Ramkrishner Jibon O Bani." The price of the book is Rs. 55 and I thank my Jethima who helped me purchase the beautiful book. The bookseller was selling the book in front of the room of Lord Ramkrishna. The book was published by "Sri Ramkrishna Vedanta Math." (Address: 19 A and B, Raja Rajkrishna Street, Kolkata ' 700 006).
The first floor of the house has the prayer hall. The color of the room's wall is white. In the room, you will find there photos, Sri Ramkrishna, Sarada Maa, and Swami Vivekananda and a photo of Maa Kali also. I became a devotee of Maa Kali when I got a holiday on the Kali Puja last year in 2008. I travelled different pandals and took photos with my digital camera of Kodak. I felt that Maa Kali has the power and the beauty which magically mystifies the mind of the devotee!! There were other rooms I saw in the house. There is a room for cooking, a room where there is a museum where the activities of house have been pictorially represented with inscriptions underneath each of them in Bengali. The room is beautifully decorated. There is another room where different photos were displayed.
The members of Shyampukur Bari Ramkrishna Parshad san 1292 (1885) are as follows:
- Kali Prasad Chandra (Abhedananda) (1866-1939)
- Lakhtu-Ram (Lattu) (died 1920).
- Narendranath Dutta (1863-1902).
- Kalipada Ghosh (18490-1905).
- Mahendranath Gupta (Master) (1854-1932).
- Ram Chandra Dutt (1851-1899).
- Tarak Nath Ghosal (Shivananda) (1854-1934)
- Gopal Chandra Sur (Adyutinanda). (1878-1909).
- Shashibhushan Chakraborty (1863-1911) (Ramkrishnanda).
- Surendranath Mitra (1850-1890).
- Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844-1912).
- Rakhal Chandra Ghosh (Brahmananda) (1863-1922).
- Nityaranjan Ghosh (Nirajananda) (1862-1904).
- Debendranath Majumdar (1844-1911).
- Manindra Krishna Gupta (1871-1940).
- Jogindra Nath Chaudhury (Jogananda) (1861-1899).
- Purna Chandra Ghosh (1871-1913).
- Baburam Ghosh (Premananda) (1861-1918).
- Sharat Chandra Chakraborty (Saradananda) (1865-1927).
- Mahendra Lal Sarkar (1833-1905).
This is a collection of photos with the names of the person and their popular names written on it. You will come to know the people who loved and respected and became a member of this committee.
The address of the Shyampukur house is 55A, Shyampukur Street, Kolkata ' 700 004.
Sri Ramkrishna came in the house on 1292, 17th Ashin, Friday (October 2, 1885). He left the house on san 1292, Agrahan 27 (December 11, 1885).
You enter the Shyampukur house and on the left side on the ground floor you will see an office. In front of the office, there is a photo frame and beneath it there is something written below in English. I am presenting you the content here and it tells us about the house in detail.
It was Friday. The ninth day of the lunar fortnight (the third days of worship of Durga), October 2, 1885 A.D., (Aswin 17, 1292 Bengali era). Sri Ramkrishna, the incarnation of God, came to the Shyampukur house by a horse drawn carriage at 7:30 p.m. from the house of Balaram Basu, his devotee. This arrival of Sri Ramkrishna had the semblance of the arrival of God Himself by a chariot. This journey by the chariot reached its final at Cossipore Garden House, on December 11, 1885. According to Gupta Press Alumnac, October 2 was an auspicious day for a journey.
The devotee Kalipada Ghosh, the prominent personality of this locality, and caretaker of this Shyampukur House, Annada Bagchi, the famous painter of Sikdar Bagan, and some other devotees were furnishing a room of Shyampukur house that very day. This room would be the abode of Sri Ramkrishna. They were busy beautifying the room with the portrait of different Gods and Goddesses, such as the pictorial representations of the chanting of Gods y Mahaprabhu, Yashodha and Bal Gopal (Sri Krishna) and of the Redemption of Ahalya. At the moment, the sound of the stoppage of the carriage were heard. The devotees came out to the verandah and saw Paramhansa Dev alighting from the carriage. He did not intend to come to the Shyampukur house that day. But pandit Sashadhar Tarkachuramoni informed him that it is auspicious day for a journey before 7:30 p.m. At that time, Shyampukur house stood to the north of th eunmetalled Shyampukur street. The building extended from east to west. In the entry, there was a terrace on the right and left. There was also a narrow porch. A few steps ahead on the right was the staircase leading to the first floor. Moreover, there was a lawn (mudd) in the center (middle) of the building. There were two rooms on each side of the side of the porch. On reaching the first floor through the staircase one could see on the right a big room extending from north to south. This room was specially meant for the public in those days. The room lead to the rooms on the left extending from the East to West. It lead first drawing room where Sri Ramkrishna used to put up. The room had verandah north to south. This room is specially meant for the public in those days. The rooms on the left extending from east to west. It lead to the drawing room where Ramkrishna used to put up. The room had a verandah north to south. The northern verandah was quite wide (spacious). To the west, there were two small rooms, some of the devotees used one as bed room, Sri Sri Maa spent nights in the other. The room meant for the public had a narrow verandah in the west on the eastern side of the passage leading to the room, of the master started the staircase leading to the roof. On the side of the door, opening to the room, there was a shaded terrace with an area of four cubic square.
Sri Sri Maa spent her days in this terrace away from the devotees and also cooked the necessary diet for the master there. The arrangement of the working to the attendants were done in the rooms to the right of the lawn by and which open field could be seen.
In those days, there was no too shroud building around Shyampukur house and hence this house could be seen from the roof of Balaram Bhavan. Sri Ramkrishna identified Shyampukur House from the roof of Balaram Bhavan to his devotees like Rakhal Chandra Ghosh.
I first went to this Shyampukur house with my mother. She showed me the beautiful place where Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa passed the final moments of his life. To me, Sri Ramkrishna is beautiful because I feel wonderfully calm and I feel the house has an air of purity and a beautiful serenity which is absent at Dakshineswar temple. I experience an extraordinary charm in this personality and also I love and respect Swami Vivekananda, this disciple. If you sit in this prayer hall for approximately 15 minutes and meditate, you will feel and it's a matter of feeling. I cannot define in words the feeling I have for this divine person who has no certificate degrees but the wisdom of the divine person sets him apart from the so called educated elites of the present times.
