Joyrambati Puratan-Bari (Old House) & Nutan-Bari (New House)

Puratan-Bari & Nutan-Bari both are located in joyrambati. Maa Sarada lived in the Puratan Bari(old house) from 1863 to 1915. Joyrambati, the small village is twenty-seven miles distant from Bishnupur in Bankura District. The place is two miles to the east of Shihar and three miles to the west of Kamarpukur, the holy birthplace of Shri Shri Thakur.

The humble vibes of this holy place convey the message of Dharma, Karma and Moksha. Shri Shri Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Bhagavan Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, was born in Joyrambati in 1853. Outwardly, she presented herself as an ordinary woman to the World for hiding her divine essence of nature. The veiling figure of the motherhood of God was truly an incarnation of wisdom, welfare and forgiveness. A true prophet of the modern age, Shri Shri Thakur was survived 34 years by the Holy Mother. The birthplace of the Mother and Guru of all disciples of Shri Shri Thakur has become a sacred place of pilgrimage for the people seeking eternal peace and self-purification. .

Maa Sarada lived in the Puratan Bari(old house) from 1863 to 1915. From the Holy Mother, many aspirants were blessed with Brahmacharya, initiation and Sannyasa in this dwelling place. On the other side, Maa started to worship Goddess Jagaddhatri here. Swami Saradananda choose a land on the western side of ‘Punyo Pukur’, a tank which is blessed with the name like this because of its regular use by Maa Sarada. A separate house, known as Nutan-Bari was built for providing better accommodation to the increasing number of devotees and the Holy Mother in 1915-16.

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