Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The house at Shyampukur selected for Ramakrishna's Treatment

Some time passed, but the pain of Ramakrishna in his throat was  only on the increase in spite of all treatment. The devotees present - Narendra, Ram, Girish, Devendra, Mahendra and others became very anxious and decided to shift him to calcutta. One day, seeing Narendra dejected at the time of taking food , a young man asked him the reason for it, to which he replied, " He who is the source of all our joy, is perhaps going to leave us this time. I have come to know from medical books and talks with doctor friends that this kind of throat disease gradually develops into cancer. Hearing of the bleeding today I suspect the disease to be that one for which the medical science has not discovered any cure yet."
Next morning the devotees decided to shift him to Calcutta, in a rented house. at Baghbazar, Durgacharan Mukherjee's street . From the roof of the house The Ganges was visible which was an attraction to Ramakrishna.The house was near to Balaram Basu's house. In the mean time Doctors like Ganga Prasad,Gopimohan, and others who diagonised the disease as " Rohini", the inflamatory affection of the throat. As this was not upto the liking of Sri Ramakrishna, they shifted him, in a week's time to the house of Gokul Chandra Bhattacharyya on the Shyam Pukur Street where he was under the treatment of Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar.
The house now hired for Ramakrishna was extended lengthwise from east to west and was situated on the north side of the Shyampukur Street. In the left side of the gate a pavement and on the right there was a narrow open verandah to sit in.After a few steps from the gate there was a flight of steps, leading to the first floor, and in front of a courtyard with two or three rooms on its eastern sides.Going upstairs by the staircase, there was a long room on the right extending north to south., meant for visitors to sit in, and on the left, the corridor leading to the room extending east to west. This was the room scheduled for Ramakrishna.To its west there were two rooms, one is meant for some devotees and the other for the Holy Mother.Ramakrishna came to this house from Balaram's at the beginning of Sept 1885, and spent a little more than three months there.
From there he was moved to Cossipore garden house in Nov/Dec.
At this time, Doctor asked the devotees to report about him on every morning and evening. On the first occasion he took his usual fees but after learning that the devotees were collecting money for their Guru's treatment, he said, " I'll treat him without taking any fees and help you in your noble endeavors according to my capacity."
Ramakrishna said to his devotees , ' no one could attain peace or reach his desired goal, if he  could not adjust himself to changed circumstances."    

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