About SriSriThakur Anukulchandra

Anukulchandra was born on 14 September 1888 in a Brahmin family, 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 devotional.
From early childhood, Anukulchandra was devoted to his mother, and accepted her as his guru. His mother Manomohini Devi was a follower of Huzur Maharaj of Dayalbagh, Radhaswami Satsang of Agra and she initiated Anukulchandra into the sect (known as 'Dikhsha') on his behalf.
As a young boy, he was a student of Pabna Institution. After finishing school in Pabna, he came to Kolkata to study medicine. He completed his studies, went back to his village and started practicing as a physician. During this time, he motivated a group of youths to form a religious band and with drums, cymbals and other instruments they started singing Bengali devotional songs known as Kirtan.
When he was
around 24–26 years old, he started going into a trance while singing Kirtan. During this state, he spoke in an assortment of known and unknown languages and on various subjects, including who he really was and other topics of philosophical interest. Initially the lack of proper scribes resulted in most sayings not being recorded. Later, when his name gained fame, educated people started visiting him and they wrote down whatever they could understand and grasp amid this flurry of messages. This era of Kirtan and trance lasted only for a few years and he returned to normalcy. His utterances of only 72 days were later collected and published in a book called Punyapunthi (Verses in Trance).^[1] This is also the time when he grew a group of followers and they started calling him as 'Sri Sri Thakur' or God. He started visiting neighborhood villages to spread his words and people gathered to see him. Soon an institution evolved around him and took the shape of a religious organization.
Anukulchandra was initiated (called 'Dikhsha') by his mother on behalf of Huzur Maharaj of Radhaswami Satsang, Dayalbagh, Agra. But he had been showing tremendous spiritual signs right from his advent. He used to do 'Kirton'/Naam-Kirton ("Hare Rama- Hare Krishna"). Sometimes during this, he would go into a trance. His utterances during these trances known as “messages” were later collected and published in a book called Punyapunthi. It was at this time that he started being addressed as “Thakur”. Mother Mata Monmohini Devi was deeply inclined to spiritualism namely prayer to the Almighty and her meditation. She was initiated by Huzur Maharaj of Dayalbagh, Radhaswami Satsang of Agra. Her spiritualism consolidated in her initiator Huzur Maharaj Ji through whom she used to taste the nectar of Heaven almost in her everyday life. In 1946 Anukulchandra went to Deoghar in Bihar and an ashram came up there as well. He had proclaimed that unless the human society adopts the marriage rules of Varnashram, there will be no peace in the world and all development work will prove to be futile. He did not return to Pabna after the partition of India, but continued to live in Deoghar, where he left his mortal frame on 26 January 1969.