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Dream
visitations
from
Sri
Ramakrishna
also
continued.
He
offered
Annada
moksha,
but
Annada,
confronted
by
a
vision
of
thousands
of
his
suffering
fellow
humans,
responded,
“I
do
not
care
for
liberation.
I
would
rather
go
through
a
hundred
thousand
hells
doing
good
to
others:
This
is
my
religion.”
In
1919,
Sri
Ramakrishna
revealed
what
Annada’s
life’s
work
was
to
be:
the
establishment
of
a
temple
to
the
Divine
Mother
Adya
Ma.
The
temple
was
to
be
in
reality
three
temples
enveloping
one
another:
the
first
to
Sri
Ramakrishna,
the
second
to
Adya
Ma,
and
the
third
to
Krishna
and
Radha.
The
altar
was
to
be
three
altars
built
like
large
stairsteps:
Ramakrishna
on
the
bottom,
Adya
Ma
in
the
middle,
and
Krishna
and
Radha
on
the
top,
encircled
by
the
sacred
syllable
om.
In
conjunction
with
the
temple,
there
were
to
be
separate
ashrams
for
men
and
women,
boys’
and
girls’
orphanages
and
schools,
a
free
clinic
to
prevent
the
spread
of
contagious
disease,
and
distribution
of
food
and
clothing
to
the
poor.
At
Sri
Ramakrishna’s
behest,
Annada
Thakur
spent
a
year
with
his
parents
in
Raujan,
in
what
is
now
Bangladesh,
and
then
returned
to
Calcutta
and
carried
out
spiritual
practices
for
a
year
on
the
bank
of
the
Ganges.
Then,
on
January
14,
1921,
a
celebration
was
held,
which
is
still
celebrated
at
the
temple
as
Siddhotsab.
The
same
year
a
committee
was
formed
for
the
establishment
of
the
Dakshineswar
Ramakrishna
Sangha.
In
early
1927,
the
Sangha
acquired
a
piece
of
land
with
some
adjoining
old
Shiva
temples,
and
on
January
31,
1928,
Annada
Thakur
broke
ground
for
the
temple
on
a
compound
of
nearly
14
acres.
Having
seen
his
dreams
begin
to
bear
fruit,
Annada
died
in
January,
1929,
at
the
age
of
38,
of
a
lung
infection.
Before
his
death,
however,
he
wrote
his
remarkable
story
in
the
Bengali
book
Swapna-Jeevana,
later
translated
into
English
as
A
Life
of
Visions.
The
dream
of
the
temple
lived
on
through
the
work
of
a
group
of
devotees.
The
Shiva
temples
were
restored,
the
girls’
school
was
built
in
1942,
and
the
boys’
orphanage
was
completed
in
1951.
The
free
clinic
moved
to
a
new
building
on
the
temple
grounds
in
1959.
The
temple
itself,
built
of
pure
white
marble,
was
completed
in
a
number
of
phases
and
consecrated
on
January
14,
1967.
Sri
Ramakrishna
had
predicted
that
after
the
establishment
of
this
temple,
there
would
be
a
new
religious
stir
in
the
country,
starting
in
Bengal.
At
least
three
devotees
each
year,
he
said,
would
receive
a
direct
vision
of
God
in
this
temple
and
would
dedicate
their
lives
for
the
welfare
of
the
world.
Today,
hundreds
of
pilgrims
and
devotees
visit
the
temple
daily,
and
its
charitable
outreach
serves
many
hundreds
of
needy.
Mandir
Address
Dakshineswar
Ramkrishna
Sangha
Adyapeath,
50,
D.D.
Mondal
Ghat
Road,
Kolkata-700076
Mandir
Opentime
4:30
a.m.
-
5:00
a.m.
10:30
a.m.
-
11:00
p.m.
6:30
p.m.
-
07:00
p.m.
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