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Sri Sri Thakur came on pilgrimage to Prayag twice, in 1863 AD and 1868 AD. Along with Mathurbabu, he came to Prayag from Kashi Dham in 1868 AD and bathed and stayed for three nights at the confluence of Ganga and Jamuna.

It is mentioned in the Kathamrita that Sri Sri Thakur went on pilgrimage to Kashi twice. Once in 1863, he visited with his mother, Sri Ram Chatterjee and a few sons of Mathurbabu. At that time the railway journey to Kashi had just started.

On way to Kashi Dham, Sri Sri Thakur visited Baidyanath Dham twice. In 1863, he visited Baidyanath Dham for the first time.

The house of Mathur Babu’s guru was in Talmagro village, not very far from Sonabere. Mathurbabu went there at the invitation of the family members of his Guru. He took Thakur and Hriday there on an elephant’s back and spent a few weeks there.

Visiting Kalaighat near Ranaghat to see Mathurbabu’s zamindari estate, Sri Sri Thakur was saddened by the want and poor plight of the men and women of Kalaighat, and through Mathurbabu he arranged to distribute a bottle of hair oil, new clothing for them and invited them to a full meal.

Mathur Babu had his ancestral home in Sonabere village near Satkhira (now in Bangladesh). Its adjoining villages were also included in his zamindari (feudal estate). Mathurbabu took Thakur with him to those places.

Sri Sri Thakur went to visit Nabadwip Dham with Mathurbabu. Thakur, even after visiting many Gosai families of Nabadwip was disappointed by the absence of feeling of any divine vibration of Mahaprabhu. On the way back, while boarding the boat, he had a strange vision. Two beautiful teenagers with skin of molten golden complexion and heads surrounded by golden halo were running towards him through the sky raising their hands and smiling. Thakur shouted out, ‘Oi Elore (here they come), Oi Elore (here they come)!’ As the figures approached and entered Thakur’s body, Thakur fell unconscious. This incident signifies that the original Nabadwip, the divine playground of Sri Sri Mahaprabhu, has submerged long back under the Ganges.

Thakur sometimes traveled through Burdwan while visiting Kamarpukur from Dakshineswar.

Thakur once left Kamarpukur to visit Hriday’s home in Shihar, and during his stay there, went to Bishnupur city to testify in a legal case. But in the end, the case was settled amicably and he did not have to testify.