Moksha Puri - Kashi & Shivapuri - Joyrambati

Another fortunate Soul Liberated from Kashi

Revd. Gunottamanandaji (Subhrangshu Maharaj)

On Oct 5, 2018; Facebook had a dazzling picture of Subhrangshu Maharaj who had suddenly left his mortal coil at the age of 54 yrs in Benaras, the Moksha City. Its Hindu Belief that any living creature that dies in Benaras, aka Kashi, aka Varanasi is immediately liberated. This fact has been corroborated by none other than Thakur Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa Dev and our Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi and many direct disciples of Thakur.

This rare fortunate soul known as Swami Gunottamanandaji Maharaj, aka Subhrangshu Maharaj, had a wonderful divine vision at Holy Mother’s birthplace, Joyrambati.  We are indebted to Revd. Tanmoy Maharaj for sharing this with all of fortunate-us.

This information has been obtained from https://www.thyroidexpress.com/2018/10/blog-post.html

At this url, there are other pictures and the entire narration of this translated incident in original Bengali. Since all the previous and the original posts were in Bengali; for all the non-Bengali literate friends here is my attempted translation.

Revd. Subhrangshu Maharaj hailed from a noted Vaishnav family which holds lineage to 13^th generation of Sri Advaita Prabhu from his father’s side and Sri Nityananda Prabhu on his mother’s side.  (Note: sanyasis are beyond any birth lineage, caste etc.; but this information will help explain that God cannot be categorized).

By Divine providence one day he had the task of offering the midday Bhog to Holy Mother in Her temple in JOYRAMBATI. In just a little while, to his utter astonishment, Mother’s statue had vanished and, in its place, a huge Shivalinga was there! On top of the Shivalinga was a little girl worshipping the Shivalinga with a small brass vessel ...!  Repeatedly he looked but the scene did not change. He could not determine if it was hallucination or true!

Then Revd. Subhrangshu Maharaj, went to (then) President Revd. Atmasthanandaji Maharaj and narrated the entire incident. With tearful eyes Revd. President Maharaj confirmed stating “What you have seen is all True. Holy Mother herself used to say that Joyrambati is Shivapuri (City of Lord Shiva). That Shivalinga is Thakur Himself and that little girl on top of the Shivalinga worshipping Him is none other than Kumari-Kanya - Mother Parvati or Sri Sri Ma, our Holy Mother.”