Hindu temple, Shariatpur
Dingamanik: Ram Sadhu's Ashram and Ram Thakur's Homeডিঙ্গামানিক: রামসাধুর আশ্রম ও রাম ঠাকুরের বাড়ি
- Time needed
- About an hour.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
A century-old ashram in Dingamanik, Naria, with a three-day fair at the end of winter, in the village where the saint Sri Sri Ram Thakur was born in 1860.
At a glance
- Ashram
- More than a hundred years old
- Fair
- Three days at the end of winter
- Ram Thakur
- Born here, 2 February 1860; died 1 May 1949
About
Dingamanik union in Naria has a Hindu ashram more than a hundred years old, known as Ram Sadhu's ashram, and every year at the end of winter a three-day fair gathers around it. The village was also home to the scholars Golok Chandra Sarbabhauma and Kali Kishore Smritiratna.
Dingamanik is the birthplace of Sri Sri Ram Thakur, born Ram Chandra Chakraborty on 2 February 1860, who became one of Bengal's best-loved saints. His followers call him Sri Kaibalyanath, Sri Sri Satyanarayan and Dayal Thakur for his kindness to people of every caste and creed. He travelled widely, ministering through famines, the world wars and the riots of Partition, and died in Noakhali on 1 May 1949. His family home and the Sri Sri Satyanarayan seva mandir stand in the village. The Kartikpur zamindar house at Hogla, in the same union, is also well known.
Getting there: By bus from Shariatpur town to Naria, then a rickshaw or auto to Dingamanik.
Things to do
- Visit the ashram, and Ram Thakur's home and the Satyanarayan seva mandir.
- Come for the three-day fair at the end of winter.
Good to know
- Remove your shoes and dress modestly at the temples.
