The legend of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa -
Pranams at the lotus feet
of Thakurji!
Chapter – 4
Chandradevi got pregnant
with Ramakrishna, during this period of time, she had many unique and divine
experiences, sometimes she would envision somebody sitting on the swan,
sometimes brilliants rays falling on her from the shrine of Lord Shiva, and she
shared all her divine experiences with her husband. Khudhiram said, “do not get worried about
anything, the child who is going to born in our family with the grace of Sri
Raghubir will take care of everything.”
It was on 18th February 1836, a beautiful child was born to
Chandradevi. The astrologer who was
preparing horoscope of the child said the child is not an ordinary one,
Khudhiram remembered the dream he had in Gaya, and therefore they named the
child Gadhadhar Chattopadhyay who was connected with some divine powers while
he was in his mother’s womb. Khudhiram
wanted to perform the Annaprashan ceremony/feeding the child with rice for the
first time, of the child in a simple manner, he decided to invite
neighbors. On the previous day the
Bhramins of the entire village assembled in his house, all wanted to take part
in the Annaprashan ceremony of the child.
Khudhiram really got anxious, because he was so poor to feed all those
Bhramins, he decided all have assembled at home, he should do something to
appease them, he went to meet the Zamindar of the village Dharmdas Lahaji,
after listening to the words of Khudhiram, he said ‘ You are worrying unnecessarily, you
will not find any difficulty while I am alive, I will do all the arrangements
to feed the Bhramins,’ Khudhiram felt uneasy putting all the burden on Lahaji,
but Lahaji smiled at him and said to leave in peace. Khudhiram was not known the fact this drama
was arranged by Lahaji himself, by inviting the entire Bhramins to attend for
the Annaprashna ceremony. That day,
after breastfeeding the child, Chandradevi put him into a decent spread after
that she went to look after the arrangements, after some time she came to check
on the child. She saw a divine
personality sleeping on the spread, she shrieked in fear and rushed out of the
room, she cried for her husband, they both came to check and saw the child was sleeping
peacefully on the spread. She murmured in extreme fear, Khudhiram consoled his
wife saying that this child is the blessing of Sri Raghubir, therefore he is
showing some divine plays and it is all his pastimes.
