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Spiritual career of
Sri Durga Charan Mohanty
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After reading Yogiguru and Premikaguru respectively, authored by Swami Nigamananda, at Raghunananan Book Store, Puri, the vigraha(portrait) of Swami Nigamananda present in the books attracted him very much. At the same time he began worshiping this portrait and considered Swami Nigamananda as his spiritual master and revered God. He began to search Swami Nigamananda and finally met him in Nilachala Kutir Puri on 20 March 1930, Thursday. At that time he was only seventeen years old and a student of class IX in Puri District School. On first meeting he was overwhelmed by his appearance and realized Swami Nigamananda as Ishwar. Since that day, he became a regular visitor to Nilachala Kutir for swamiji's darshan. He used to note down swamiji's sayings(upadesh), later he published these "upadesh"(gospels)in books like "Nilachala Vani" and "Nigama Upadesh" . Subsequently he wrote many books for Nilachala Saraswata Sangha and translated Swami Nigamananda's originally written Bengali books :Brahamcharya Sadhana , Yogi Guru , Gyani Guru, Tantrika Guru, and Premika Guru, into Oriya language.[5][6] On Trilochan Ashtami, 5 June 1934, he was initiated as disciples of Swami Nigamananda. Being a Swamiji's disciple, Mohanty spent his entire life on his service, had opened over hundreds of Nigamananda Ashrams in Orissa and continued to preach swamiji's philosophy till he left his physical body on 7 December 1985 at Biratunga. Despite of his physical death, Nilachala Saraswata Sangha and his followers believe and respect him as "Parichalaka Brother" as on today quoting words, He remains the Parichalaka of Nilachala Saraswata Sangha, Puri as he has not handed over this authority to anybody else and he had indicated while answering questions that, "we will continue to remain as is now".
Spiritual career of
Sri Durga Charan Mohanty
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After reading Yogiguru and Premikaguru respectively, authored by Swami Nigamananda, at Raghunananan Book Store, Puri, the vigraha(portrait) of Swami Nigamananda present in the books attracted him very much. At the same time he began worshiping this portrait and considered Swami Nigamananda as his spiritual master and revered God. He began to search Swami Nigamananda and finally met him in Nilachala Kutir Puri on 20 March 1930, Thursday. At that time he was only seventeen years old and a student of class IX in Puri District School. On first meeting he was overwhelmed by his appearance and realized Swami Nigamananda as Ishwar. Since that day, he became a regular visitor to Nilachala Kutir for swamiji's darshan. He used to note down swamiji's sayings(upadesh), later he published these "upadesh"(gospels)in books like "Nilachala Vani" and "Nigama Upadesh" . Subsequently he wrote many books for Nilachala Saraswata Sangha and translated Swami Nigamananda's originally written Bengali books :Brahamcharya Sadhana , Yogi Guru , Gyani Guru, Tantrika Guru, and Premika Guru, into Oriya language.[5][6] On Trilochan Ashtami, 5 June 1934, he was initiated as disciples of Swami Nigamananda. Being a Swamiji's disciple, Mohanty spent his entire life on his service, had opened over hundreds of Nigamananda Ashrams in Orissa and continued to preach swamiji's philosophy till he left his physical body on 7 December 1985 at Biratunga. Despite of his physical death, Nilachala Saraswata Sangha and his followers believe and respect him as "Parichalaka Brother" as on today quoting words, He remains the Parichalaka of Nilachala Saraswata Sangha, Puri as he has not handed over this authority to anybody else and he had indicated while answering questions that, "we will continue to remain as is now".