The advent of His Holiness, Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavananda ji Maharaj was in 1896, in the village Bajitpur (Bangladesh) of undivided India. ‘BINOD’, as was called in his childhood days, was often found to be immersed in serious thoughts that culminated into deep meditation, aimed at ‘Self Emancipation’ and ‘Upliftment of Human Beings’, through spiritual development and selfless Services. As a brahmachari, he spent countless hours in meditation, spiritual trances and Seva (Service to people)

The Acharya, as believed by millions was an incarnation of Lord Shiva. His parents were undergoing untold miseries in a remote corner of rural Bengal. As an Ardent devotees of Lord Shiva, they undertook hard penance and rigorous austerities to propitiate the Lord who in a dream, conferred upon them a great boon by incarnating Himself as their son.

He became the disciple of Baba Gambhiranathji and eventually attained the Divine Power, which illuminated His life. Those who wounded him were also endued with the same. Gradually, many people influenced by the ideologies of the Acharya, continued to extend and hold aloft His banner “BHARAT SEVASHRAM SANGHA”, (the Ashram founded in 1917) as His disciples, (irrespective of caste, colour or religion). The Sangha is dedicated for the all round well being of people indulged in raising them to the Level of Divine Standard.

His Supreme Realisation was: –

This is an era of,

Universal Awakening,

Universal Realisation,

Universal Conciliation and Universal Emancipation.

In those days of Indian Independence Movement, He was the source of inspiration to the Revolutionaries and personally took up people and goaded them to adopt selfless services in Natural Calamities. He was the torch-bearer to set up Village Level Industries, like Handloom and even introduced Dhekis (Indigenous Rice Hauler- manually operated) at all households. In these ways, He soughed out various ways of Income Generation Programmes to make the people living below the poverty line, Such as the tribals to stand on their own feet.

This organization is headquartered in Calcutta and has about fifty branches and associates throughout India and around the world. Today the Sangha undertakes relief work during natural calamities, runs school, Orphanage, student homes and hospitals. Swami Pranavananda ji, proclaimed some universal ideals in aphorisms for the solutions of certain jarring problems of this age. We call them the Ten Divine Messages.

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