Life story of Sri Ram Thakur

Sri Sri Ram Thakur was a Hindu saint from Bengal, who had followers mostly from East Bengal now Bangladesh and Tripura. He worked among people of various castes and faiths. He is also known as Sri Sri Kaibalyanath to his followers.

He was born in the Bramhin Bidyalankar family at Dingamanik, in Faridpur district, Bangladesh, on 2 February 1860 to father Sri Radhamadhab Chakraborty and mother Smt. Kamala Devi.

As a boy he felt strongly attached to his father's spiritual guide, Sri Mrityunjoy Nyayapanchanan, who is said to have initiated him into the life of an ascetic at Kamakhya. He toured the country and ministered to the spiritual needs of people affected by many famines, the World Wars and the communal riots that surrounded Partition.

He took Mahasamadhi on May 1, 1949 at Chaumohani, a town in the District of Noakhali, Bangladesh. His remains were laid to rest there at a hermitage named 'Samadhi Mandir' at Choumuhani, Bangladesh.

He had entered his mother's womb on the auspicious day of AKSHAYA TRITIYA day which falls once in a year in the month of mid April to mid May, his thread ceremony (poita or janeu sanskar) happened again on Akshaya Tritiya and he also took mahasamadhi on Akshaya Tritiya day only.

Apart from the many minor prophecies Sri Ram Thakur made, on a winter evening in 1938 he suddenly exclaimed, "The stars that rose during the Kurukshetra War are rising again. Millions of people will lose their lives." A few months later World War II erupted. On the morning of 6 August 1945, Thakur, who was then in Feni, lamented "Alas! Alas! What a destruction!" A few hours later an atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. (Source: "Sri Sri Thakurer Sange", a Bengali article by Tulsidas Gangopadhyay)

On the afternoon of January 30, 1948, hours before Gandhi's assassination, Thakur all of a sudden said: "Gandhi will not take birth again!" (Source: "Prachchhanabatar Sri Ramthakurer Prasange", an article by Smt. Binapani Sengupta).

Like this there are many incidences of our beloved Sri Sri Thakur which can be known from various books written by the different devotees of him but among them there are very few books which are considered to be very very important for all of his devotees who want to know more about him, for example Ram Bai Sarane written by Sri Phanindra Malakar, Sri Guru Sri Ram Thakur written by Sri Rohini Mazumdar and Chonna Avatar Sri Ramthakur written by Sri Sadananda Chakraborty etc.