The Mother's House — Attraction in Kolkata

Place for meditation. ‘Holy Mother’, Sri Sarada Devi, was born on 22 December 1853 in a poor Brahmin family in Jayrambati, a village adjoining Kamarpukur in West Bengal. Her father, Ramachandra Mukhopadhyay, was a pious and kind-hearted person, and her mother, Shyama Sundari Devi, was a loving and hard-working woman. When she was about six years old, she was married to Sri Ramakrishna. In 1872, on the night of the Phala-harini-Kali-puja, he ritualistically worshipped Sarada Devi as the Divine Mother, thereby awakening universal Motherhood latent in her. When disciples began to gather around Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi learned to look upon them as her own children. After Sri Ramakrishna’s passing away in 1886, Sarada Devi spent some months in pilgrimage, and then went to Kamarpukur where she lived in great privation. When the Western women disciples of Swami Vivekananda came to Kolkata, the Holy Mother accepted them with open arms as her daughters, ignoring the restrictions of the orthodox society of those days. In the history of humanity there has never been another woman who looked upon herself as the Mother of all beings, including animals and birds, and spent her whole life in serving them as her children, undergoing unending sacrifice and self-denial. About her role in the mission of Sri Ramakrishna on earth, she stated: “My son, you know the Master had a maternal attitude (matri-bhava) towards every one. He has left me behind to manifest that Divine Motherhood...

I FEEL YOU HAVE PUT THE WRONG LOCATION FOR THIS HOUSE ON THE MAP. THE RIGHT LOCATION SHOULD BE NO. 1 UDBODHAN LANE BAGHBAZAR, WHERE ALREADY THERE IS A MARKING. However, the photos you have provided are far far more descriptive and better compared to that link. Please correct the location...

The Mother's House, popularly known as "Maayer Bari" is the sacred place which is the abode or home of Maa Saradamoni, located in a bylane at Bagbazar area of North Calcutta and very near to Bagbazar railway station & Bagbazar...