Friday, September 14, 2012

Khudiram Chattopadhyay-father of Ramakrishna

The ancestor's house of Khudiram was in a village Dere in Hooghly, West Bengal, India. He lived there happily for forty years since his childhood with his wife Chandra Devi and a son Ramakumar and a daughter Katyayani.
He was to some extent well to person with 150 bighas of land for his livelyhood. But once the zemindar  of the area Ramananda Roy asked him to give a false witness on his behalf which he did not agree. As a result he had to leave his ancestor's house and his landed property to save  his life. He took the path of truth. With the help of one of his friend Sukhlal Goswami he came to Kamarpukurand got a patch of land to cultivate. Here Chandra devi gave birth to another son Rameswara. This name was given to him as because at the time of his birth Khudiram went for a pilgrimage to Rameswara.
They lived in Kamarpukur for twenty years when his eldest son became a  sanskrit pandit.
By the grace of god Khudiram had another son named Gadadhar.

No comments:

Post a Comment