Parivrajakacharyabar Shri Shri Durgaprasanna Paramhamsadev was born to Umacharan Chakrabarti (a siddha tantrik sadhak in the lineage of Advaita prabhu) and Chintamani Devi (a steadfast devotee of Lord Ashutosh) in Rajapur village under the district of Barishal (presently in Bangladesh) on the auspicious day of Raas Poornima in the year of 1891 (b1298). His Kundalini Shakti got awakened at the sacr
ed thread ceremony itself. He got success (siddhi) in Gayatri Sadhana at the age of seventeen. He attained the holy vision of Goddess Kali one moonless (amavasya) night on the Panchamundi aasan (five-headed seat) established by Sarvanand at Kumilla Meher's Kalibari. Besides these he also learnt and practiced to perfection many other sadhanas just for the sake of reducing the agony of mortals. He used to offer ayurvedic medicines to people to cure their illnesses and his own belongings to the poor. Since his early childhood, he nurtured the spirit of service towards every fellow-being. His eagerness to remove forever the sufferings of all brought him to his guru Shri Shri Nigamananda Paramhamsa (then reciding at Assam Kokilamukh Shanti Ashram) who immediately identified him as a Vishwa-Sevak (universal servant) and later guided him through various spiritual austerities (details are unknown) finally asking him to be a Guru himself, which he reluctantly accepted. Durgaprasanna was a dedicated disciple of his gurudev and soon he became his dearest. Nigamanandaji sent him home on his father's fervent request and told him to continue his spiritual exercises at his home. He got siddhi in his ishta-mantra at his Rajapur home by having a vision of his gurudev's divine manifestation. After this success he was conferred the right of being a Guru, give Diksha and accept disciples. But soon he finds himself unable to confront worldly matters that his disciples tried to share with him. He gave up and put his expressed his problem to his gurudev who then sent him for a special sadhana at Daam pahar which he completed successfully and returned. According to Nigamanandaji's instructions, he also practiced shav-sadhana(tantrik practice with co**se) and later after parting from gurudev, he practiced yog-sadhana through which he first reached savikalpa samadhi and explored all the fourteen worlds (chaturdash-lok) in the universe along with realization of the soul (Aatman). (contd.)
