Shri Shri Thakur Balak Brahmachari was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in a small village named Medinimondal near the banks of the river Padma, in the district of Vikrampur on Tuesday, 9th November 1920 (Bengali Year 1327 BS, 23 Kartik) at 10.20 PM on the auspicious day of Kali Puja. HIS Father was Shri Surendra Chandra Chakroborty and Mother was Smt. Charushila Devi (1899-1985).
Shri Shri Thakur was “Janma Siddha” which means born with divine powers and HE has been an embodiment of pure knowledge since childhood. People from all walks of life were attracted to his grace and spiritualism and to his vast treasure of cosmic truth. From the very tender age of five HE talked fluently on Nature’s Veda, that’s far beyond the knowledge available in any of the religious scriptures. It covers a much wider field, a more comprehensive dimension, where true knowledge manifests itself amidst Nature’s infinite tune. He has been preaching from His very childhood the concept of One World, One religion, One Nation, One family.
The real name of Thakur was Birendra Chandra Chakraborty. He gave his blessings and initiated people with holy mantras even before the tender age of five. Since then HE was popularly known as “Balak Gosain” (Child God), or “Balak Thakur” (Child Master) by his followers and local people. He migrated to India in 1947 immediately after the partition of Bengal and came to be popularly known as Thakur Balak Brahmachari.
On 27th September 1969 at the age of 49 Shri Shri Thakur Balakbrahmachari finally gave us the Mahanaam in its present form i.e, “Ram Narayan Ram” where the words Ram and Narayan do not represent God Rama or God Krishna, instead, these are the Primordial Vedic words having special spiritual significance, they carry the essence of the whole creation, they describe the characteristics of the Eternal Void and the Infinite Tune. Their meaning is deep-rooted and broad-based.