Place · pilgrimage village · India
Jayrambati, Bankura
Also known as Bankura, Jayrambati, Sarada Devi's birthplace
The village of Jayrambati in Bankura district, West Bengal, 100 kilometres from Kolkata and 7 kilometres from Kamarpukur (Ramakrishna's birthplace village) — the birthplace of Sarada Devi (1853-1920), the wife of Ramakrishna Paramhansa and the 'Holy Mother' of the Ramakrishna Mission. Sarada Devi was born on 22 December 1853 to Ramchandra Mukherjee and Shyamasundari Devi, and lived at Jayrambati until her marriage to Ramakrishna at age 5 in 1859. She returned to Jayrambati during her widowhood after Ramakrishna's death in 1886, and lived there intermittently until her death on 20 July 1920 at Kolkata. The village's Matri Mandir (built 1923 by the Ramakrishna Order) is the chief pilgrimage. The 2015 Sarada Devi Birthplace Memorial Complex and the adjacent Simhavahini Devi temple (Sarada's village deity) complete the Jayrambati heritage site.
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- Life routeSāradā Devī
Sāradā Devī was born at Jayrāmbāti in 1853 and spent much of her life there, running a household for people nobody else would take in. After 1886 the young Rāmakrishna order deferred to her judgement; Vivekānanda sought her sanction before founding Belur Math and before going abroad. She was nearly unlettered, and her recorded advice is almost entirely practical and domestic, which is why it reads unlike anything else in the order's literature.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Jayrambati”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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