MONO CHALO NIJO NIKETANE Musings By Sanjoy Das Gupta Sri Ramakrishna first met a young Narendranath and heard him sing in November 1881 at the house of his householder devotee, Shri Surendra Nath Mitra. Shri Ramakrishna used to visit Shri Mitra’s house in Calcutta to deliver spiritual lectures and other forms of enlightenment. On this particular occasion too, Shri Mitra had arranged a spiritual festival at his house in Shimla Street wherein Sri Ramakrishna would be present. When the appointed singer for the occasion failed to show up, a young Narendranath Dutta, Mitra’s neighbour and a talented singer, was asked to fill in. Narendranath was then around eighteen years old, preparing for his FA exams of Calcutta University. Narendra sang several devotional songs. His performance was soulful and deeply impressed Sri Ramakrishna. One of the songs sang by him was a Bromho Sangeet “ Mono Chalo Nijo Niketane…” composed by Sri Ayodhyanath Pakrasi, an eminent educationist and scholar in Ben...
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