Atla village is approx. 2 km from Tarapith. We hire an entire auto from Tarapith (to-and-fro) for Rs. 100 (including a waiting time of 30 minutes) to visit Sadhak Sri Sri Bamdev’s birthplace.

Visiting Hours: 6:00 am – 9:00 pm (7 days open)

We met Chandrashekhar Roy – 4th generation of Sri Sri Bamdev Baba’s brother (Ramchandra Chattopadhyay).

Chandrashekhar Roy enhanced our knowledge as follows:

Sri Sri Bamdev mother’s name was Rajkumari Devi and father’s name – Sarvananda Chattopadhya.

185 years ago Sri Sri Bamdev was born in the year 1837 on Shivratri day (March month) at this house.
1911 – Sri Sri Bamdev had iccha mrityu (euthanasia) at Maha Shamshan, Tarapith at the age of 74 years.

Chandrashekhar Roy showed us various Sadhana articles of Sri Sri Bamdev which he used to worship Ma Tara.

He also showed us various Sadhak images such as Trailanga Swami of Benaras (Varanasi), Anandamayi Ma, and first and second disciple of Sri Sri Bamdev – Swami Nigamananda Paramhans and Swami Taranath Brahmchari.

We were offered liquor as Prasad by Chandrashekhar Roy. And had blessings.