Samkhya Kapila Vaisheshika Kanada Yoga Patanjali Died 1911 | Name Bamacharan Chattopadhyay Shuddhadvaita Vallabha Acharya Dvaitadvaita Nimbarka | |
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Similar Trailanga, Nigamananda Paramahansa, Ramakrishna | ||
Sadhak BamaKhapa's House || Atla || Tarapith
Bamakhepa (1837–1911),(Bengali: বামাক্ষ্যাপা) born Bamacharan Chattopadhyay, popularly known as the "mad saint," was a Hindu saint, held in great reverence in Tarapith and whose shrine is also located in the vicinity of the Tara temple in Birbhum.
Contents
- Sadhak BamaKhapas House Atla Tarapith
- Bamakhepa Wikipedia audio article
- Worship
- Popular culture
- References
Bamakhepa | Wikipedia audio article
Worship
Bamakhepa, goddess Tara's ardent devotee lived near the temple and meditated in the cremation grounds. He was a contemporary of another famous Bengali saint Ramakrishna. At a young age, he left his house and came under the tutelage of a saint named Kailsahpati Baba, who lived in Tarapith. Afterward went to maluti, an old temple village in the bank of Dwarka River. He stayed in Mouliksha temple for continuing the holy worship.
He perfected yoga and Tantric sadhana (worship), which resulted in his becoming the spiritual head of Tarapith. People came to him seeking blessings or cures for their illness, in distress or just to meet him. He did not follow the set rules of the temple and as result was even once roughed up by the temple priests for taking food meant as offering for the deity. It is said: Tara appeared in the dream of Maharani ("Queen") of Natore and told her to feed the saint first as he was her son. After this incident, Bamakhepa was fed first in the temple before the deity and nobody obstructed him. It is believed that Tara gave a vision to Bamakhepa in the cremation grounds in her ferocious form and then took him to her breast.
Popular culture
Beginning in 2007, a teleserial named 'Sadhak Bamakhepa' about Bamakhepa ran on television in Bengal. By late 2011, it had run for 1500 episodes.