Baranagar to Alambazar

After the death of Ramakrishna in 1886, it took certain time for the devotees to settle their mind for their future course  of action.But soon they formed a monastery in Baranagar, began to live there to take a monastic life.
Naren resisted the call to flight for two years. Apart from short visits he remained at  Baranagar until 1888.Then he left suddenly not alone. At first with a companion . During two and half years he always returned if he was recalled by his brethren or by some unforeseen event. Then he was seized by the sacred madness to escape; the longing suppressed for five years burst all bounds. In 1891, alone, without a companion , without a fixed name, staff and bowl in hand, as an unknown beggar, he was swallowed up for years in the immensity of India.   In 1892 the monastery was shiftd from Batanagar to Alambazar, a plcce nearer to Dakshineswar temple. For a fairly long time before and after that time , the brotherhood had no knowledge of the whereabouts of their leader Narendranath, till they were thrilled to learn that their itinerant brother had crossed the seas and burst upon the American society in the wake of the Chicago Parliament of  Religious as Swami Vivekananda, the cyclonic monk of India. .On the right side of the  road to Lochan Gosh's Ghat from Alambazar, there was The house Chattopadhyas supported by big pillars. The main gate of the house was situated on the small lane on the east side.After entering through the main gate one finds, on the north and south, there were two small veranda  In front of it thete was a courtyard. After that there was a long hall with three doors facing  westwards. From the hall on the north, a stair  ran over to upstairs. On he first floor in the south  -east corner there were two verandas  the floor of which were covered by red, blue, coloured octate marvel stones, .At the back of the eastern veranda stands a long big room with three doors ended with a small room.At the southern veranda there was the bath room with wooden piecesThere was also a courtyard in the inside portion of the house.  There were days at Baranagar Math when we had nothing to eat. Leaves of the Bimba creeper boiled, salt and rice - this was  our dietfor months. Come what would, we were indifferent. We were being carried on in a strong tide of religious practices and meditation.

Pic-Top; Standing- (left to right) swamis Shivananda, Ramamkrishnananda, Vivekananda, andPremananda, deben Majumdar and Mahendranath Gupta M, Swami Trigunatitananda, Mustaphi (maternal uncle of Deben Majumdar), Sitting (left to right) swamis Niranjanananda, saradananda, Brahmananda, And abhedananda.

English: Alambazar Math, ��1896 (farewell to Swami Abhedananda leaving for the US) (from left) standing: Swamis Adbhutananda, Yogananda, Abhedananda, Trigunatitananda, Turiyananda, Nirmalananda, and Niranjanananda;
sitting: Swamis Subodhananda, Brahmananda (on chair), and Akhandananda