... while his wife was six years old; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's age was eleven to his bride's five. And, it was around the age of twenty-three that Sri Ramakrishna married his little bride of six: Saradamani Devi. Page 92 In 1864, K. D. completed his medical studies at the Calcutta Medical College and became a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (L. M. S. 2 nd Division). He was attached ...
... office or connected with it, e.g. Nalini Kanta Gupta who was with me then as he is now still with me here. (3) I did not go to the Bagbazar Math on my way to Chandernagore or make pranam to Sri Saradamani Devi. In fact I never met or even saw her in my life. It was not from Bagbazar but from another ghat (Ganga ghat) that I went straight by boat to Chandernagore. (4) Neither Ganen Maharaj nor Nivedita... Page 88 and from that time to its cessation of publication was in control of the paper; the editorials during that period were hers. (5) I did not take my wife for initiation to Sri Saradamani Devi; I was given to understand that she was taken there by Sudhira Bose, Debabrata's sister. I heard of it a considerable time afterwards in Pondicherry. I was glad to know that she had found so great ...
... of Sri Aurobindo o Banglay Swadeshi Jug , Girijashankar cited a letter written to him by Swami Sundarananda of the Udbodhan office, in which Sundarananda claimed that Sri Aurobindo visited Saradamani Devi, the widow of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, on his way to Chandernagore in 1910. This and other parts of Girijashankar's articles were shown to Sri Aurobindo, who on 15 Page 562 ... December 1944 replied in the form of a letter to Charu Chandra Dutt, the substance of which was published in the Udbodhan ( Phalgun 1351). The story about Sri Aurobindo's visit to Saradamani Devi was repeated by a certain K. Ghosh in a letter published in the Hindusthan Standard of 6 June 1945. In response, Sri Aurobindo dictated another letter, which was published in the Sunday ...
... To the Editor, Sunday Times I am authorised by Sri Aurobindo to contradict the statement quoted in your issue of the 17th instant from the Hindusthan Standard that he visited Sri Saradamani Devi on the day of his departure to Pondicherry (?) and received from her some kind of diksha. 1 There was a story published in a Calcutta monthly some time ago that on the night of his departure ...
... Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 40-1, and Sri Aurobindo, 0» Himself, Vol. 26, pp. 60, 70. The story that Sri Aurobindo visited Baghbazar Math on his way to Chandernagore to receive initiation from Saradamani Devi has been dismissed as a wholly unfounded fabrication. (See Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, Vol. 26, p. 60) Page 367 A search of the Karmayogin office yielded no results, and the ...
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