Jogmaya Kalibari (Beldanga 1)

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  sekhar_sasanka

  I am Sasanka Sekhar Debnath (Utpal). When my grandfather Bhusananda Swami died inheriting four little daughters actually there was no guardian to look after them. My grandmother, being a house wife, had no practical knowledge how to maintain the family. One disciple late Shankari Banerjee took the whole responsibilities to maintain the temple. When the Ashram was in full fledged in reputation many disciple 20-30 lived there and used to do all sorts of work but after the death of grandfather all left and not only that many of them cheated grandmother in various ways. I have seen only Shankari Banerjee whom we called Baroma went to the different districts like Nadia & Midnapur where the revered disciples like Bhubaneshwar Bhattacharya, Abinash Senapati, Sabita Mishra etc send money as a respect of gurudakshna for which, in fact, we hardly managed our square meal. There is some landed property in the name of Ashram which was gifted by Surendra Nath Das Babaji in Midnapore district, Abinash Senapati, despite his all effort hardly able to collect the negligible revenue from the bargadar-cultivators who are reluctant to give even the justified portion of the product. I came to the Ashram at the age of 9-10 years. I have witnessed the hunger, agony, helplessness, miseries of all of us. It was a routine that thieve comes on regular interval and entered in the temple and took the petty things including small idols. Still now I kept the door of the temple is a mark of multiple bore made by them. In the year 1977 the main idol of Jogmaya was stolen by the thieves. I was mere a child yet I complained to local Police Station with a copy to the Bhabani Bhavan Kolkata but naturally of no avail. I can remember another interesting incidence. Once I complained to the local Beldanga Police Station about the theft of some small idols and the Officer in charge told me to search three days later beneith the Kath Karabi flower tree situated on the southeast corner of out house. Surprisingly I found all of them. Thus being the situation, my grandmother requested my brother-in-law who resides a few miles away to stay in the night of Saturday as the theft was executed mainly in that particular day. it was a long story and experience for me.

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  sekhar_sasanka

  It is not known who has wrongly marked Jogmoth Jogmaya Kalibari in the premises of SRF College. The exact place is already marked in the north west corner and just western side of the CRGS High School. So this may be corrected. I never marked the temple in the College campus.

  11 years ago | reply | hide comment