On the 12th day of Phalgun, in the year 1245 of the Bengali calendar — a Thursday, the sacred night of Shiva Chaturdashi — there occurred a divine descent upon this earth: the advent of Sri Sri Mahatma Bamakhyapa.

He was not born as an ordinary man, but as a nitya-siddha mahapurusha, a perfected soul mad with love for the Mother — Tārā-prema-unmatta. 

In the holy land of Birbhum, near the cremation grounds of Tarapith, in the humble village of Atla, he appeared as the son of the devoted Svarvananda and the virtuous lady Rajkumari.

In childhood, he was known as Sri Bamacharan Chattopadhyay.  Even the moment of his birth bore the mark of divine intent — for he had taken human form not for worldly pursuits, but to enact the divine play of Shiva, and to liberate countless jivas in Kali Yuga through his madness and love.

Truly, he was the Bhagavan Bhairava of Tarapith Smashan, consumed in ecstatic, all-consuming love for Ma Tara — the Divine Mother who alone knows the path beyond birth and death. He was not merely a devotee — he was Her very own, lost in Her, living proof that where there is divine madness, there is moksha.  
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English rendition of the Bengali text from Sri Bam Lila: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.456721/page/n1/mode/2up](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.456721/page/n1/mode/2up)  
  
Joy Maa

12th day of Phalgun, 1245 saw a divine descent upon this earth!