Niche Faiths

S A T S A N G

Set up by Purushottam Thakur Anukulchandra in Pabna, now in Bangladesh, in 1910, the headquarters of this sect is in Deoghar in Jharkhand. It has members all over the country, particularly in Assam, Orissa and West Bengal.

The head:
Presided over by Acharya Shri Ashok Chakrabarty, Anukulchandra’s grandson.

The philosophy:
Primary tenet: Bancho and Bado (Live and grow and help others to live). Equal importance given to all religions in belief that a person should be known not by his religion but by his human qualities. Every Satsangi is expected to be vegetarian and offer prayers twice a day.

The numbers:
Claims adherents totalling 20 crore across country. Satsang has about 2,000 temples all over the world and 14,000 Ritwiks (people entitled to confer diksha on others).

The assets:
Satsang Nagar at Deoghar, with its hospitals and schools, spread over 50 acres. Each Satsangi expected to save some money, even a paisa, every day and send the amount to Deoghar every month.
—Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay

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Listen devotional song written by Sri Borda

Jai Guru

This is a devotional song. It was written by Sri Borda (Son of SriSri Thakur Anukul Chandra) and composed by Sri Nikhil Ghotok (Tanu Da).

I found it today on Internet so just thought to upload for all my Gurubhais/Gurumaas, as promised to make this blog a door to all the links available on internet, related with Guruji.

I am certain that you would appreciate it.

Tomar Ronger Hrido...

Jai Guru

Commemorative stamp on Thakurji

Commemorative stamp on Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra

This was released in 2nd September 1987 for 100 paise.

Link on Indian Postage Site is also there as given below

http://www.postageindia.com/commemorative/1987.htm

You must be thinking why I am posting this information today, but Actually I didn't had an idea that stamp for the remembrance of our Guruji was released, so when I happened to see it while googling his name, I thought to share with all of you, so that nobody remain unaware of it. Jai Guru.

Anukul Gita

Anukul Gita is a collection of sayings & teachings of Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra, a well known religious personality in India. His sayings and discourses with Him have been compiled into numerous books in Bengali and in English. Actually, He doesn't compartmentalise life into religion, science or arts, rather He has explained every single things with relation to the WHOLE, in a synthetical & analytical manner. This project is to collect all His literature at one place and make them available to everyone.

There is not a single utterance in the collection from the very first to the last in His ideas on religion, spirituality, education, society, industry, agriculture, arts, commerce, marriage, conjugal life, eugenics, economics, politics, science and others which has not evolved out of his personal realization and experiences and which he has not been trying to materialize in the scale of a seedling here in the Satsang. The life of Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra ji is like the Alpine glacier which melts into an infinity of colors as it proceeds onwards, has been breaking into a variety of channels each solving the problems of a particular phase of human necessity. He alone knows in what a sea of bliss for mankind His life will find its consummation. The sayings give a clear solution to the questions on the different problems of not only the present day world but to the ages to come. Never in the history of mankind we find such a great scientific and detailed explanations of the real dynamics of the Nature and human beings. No wonder, He is worshipped as the Latest Revelation on the earth, in whom all religions,isms & sects find an unity and complete fulfillment. He is known as Fulfiller the Best in whom all knots of our lives dissolve and we attain real bliss.

Viswa Guru

Thakur Anukulchandra (1888–1969) is a Viswa Guru, physician, and is a living Guide, who plays the most active and relevant role in our life.

Anukulchandra was born on 14 September 1888 in Himaitpur village in the Pabna district of Bangladesh. His father was Shibchandra Chakraborty and his mother was Manomohini Devi.

Gurujis followers set up a Satsanga ashram, first at Pabna in Bangladesh, and then at Deoghar in India, for fostering spiritual development. The four ideals of Satsanga are education, agriculture, industry, and good marriage. He also set up schools, charitable hospitals, engineering workshops, a publishing house, and a printing press. He was a prolific writer; noted among his ninety-four books are Satyanusaran, Punyapunthi, Anushruti, Chalar Sathi, Shashvati, and Pritibinayak.

Anukulchandra was initiated into devotional ways by his mother. This led to his forming a Group and performing Satsang. Sometimes during a performance, 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”.

In 1946 Anukulchandra went to Deoghar in Bihar, where his followrs set up an ashram there on the model of Satsang. 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.