On the occasion of the grand festival of Brahmo Samaj organized at Gyan Chowdhury’s house in Simulia, Sri Sri Thakur came there on 1st January,1882 and had divine discourse with Keshab and other members of Brahmo Samaj. Thakur sang and danced in ecstasy.
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Dr Biharilal Bhaduris house is situated in Bidhan Sarani (earlier known as Cornwallis street). Sri Ramakrishna had visited this place when he had come to meet two of his lay disciples, Ram Chandra Dutta and Manomohan Mitra, who resided close by. Dr Bhaduri had himself invited Sri Ramakrishna to his house and treated him with homeopathic medicines. Later, in this very house, resided his son in law, Dr Pratap Chandra Majumdar. On the footsteps of his father in law, Dr Majumdar too had treated Sri Ramakrishna during his illness.
The house is located at the corner of Mechuabazar and Circular Road. Thakur came here several times. Keshab Chandra used to receive Sri Sri Thakur in the Thakur Ghar (room meant for worshipping) on the first floor of this house. On camera, the first picture of Thakur standing in Samadhi (divine ecstasy) was photographed in this very house on 21st September,1879.
Sri Sri Thakur used to come here often. Due to a dispute amongst the followers, Acharya Keshab Chandra Sen, the famous leader of the Brahmo Samaj established his own breakaway ‘Bharatvarshiya Brahmo Samaj’ in 1866. This came to be known later as Nava Bidhan Brahmo Samaj. The Samaj Mandir was built in the year 1869.
Vijayakrishna Goswami lived in a rented house at 26, Jhamapukur Lane. Sri Ramakrishna visited Vijaykrishna Goswami in this house during his illness. This is mentioned in the twelfth chapter (fifth part) of the Sri-M-Darshan and the fourteenth chapter (tenth part) of the Sri-M-Darshan. Presently, a medical center exists at the exact location of this house.
This house is at the corner of Guruprasad Chowdhury Lane. On 10-12-1881, Thakur graced Rajendranath Mitra’s house and danced and sang in the presence of Keshab Chandra Sen, the most prominent leader of the Brahmo Samaj. Rajendranath Mitra was a renowned figure in those days. He worked at the post of ‘Deputy magistrate’ and rose to the position of assistant secretary and finance minister to the viceroy during the English Era. He was the maternal uncle of two of the lay disciples of Sri Ramakrishna – Sri Manomohan Mitra and Ramchandra Dutta.
As per the Gospel, Sri Ramakrishna graced this house twice by his visit, first on 27.12.1883 and the other on 25.6.1884, when he was invited to attend the Rath yatra festival. During his second visit, Mastar Mahashay introduced him with the second son of Ishanbabu, Shrishchandra.
During his stay in Jhamapukur region, Thakur visited Subodh Ghosh’s (later Swami Subodhananda, one of the monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna) residence at Thanthania a few times. Subodh was not born then. Later when Subodh, as a young student, came to meet Thakur in Dakshineswar, Thakur told him, ‘When I used to stay in Jhamapukur, I had visited Siddheshwari temple as well as your house so many times. You were not born then’. This old two-story house exists even today.
During his stay at Jhamapukur, Sri Ramakrishna (then Gadadhar) used to spend time in this shop on the Guruprasad Chowdhury Lane. Vaishnava Nakur Babaji was originally a native of Kamarpukur region, and was thus known to Sri Ramakrishna. This shop does not exist today.
Thakur Sri Ramakrishna used to stay with his brother in a house on the Bechu Chatterjee street, which was in this same row, just 3-4 houses away a little on the eastern side. They stayed there for about two years, from 1853 to 1855. It was a simple house with tiled hut, which was located on the north side of the road opposite to the Laha household. All those houses have been demolished and have been replaced by brick houses.