What kind of person was Ramakrishna Paramahansadev?

Today is the birthday of Ramakrishna Paramahansadeva. All over the world special pooja is going on on the occasion of birthday. He was a saint at a critical juncture, educated Hindus were gradually drawn towards Christianity and Brahmanism. The reason for this is, of course, religious fanaticism, oppression of the lower castes by the upper castes of Hinduism and various evil practices. Just then the man who came and took the helm, his name was Paramahansadev. He spread the word of God through simple words, folk education, the logistics of life. To the devotees he is Tagore, Yugavatar. But what kind of man was Ramakrishna, do we try to know at all? The real man is lost under the pressure of divinity. Adap has to know the man closely to reach him. He was a complete foodie, like a child at eleven. Unable to bear the heat, he ate ice, and was also weak against hookah. There was also a lot of humor, it is not an exaggeration to say funny.

We know Gadadhar Chattapadhyay from his love of food, just as he used to ask Maa Kali for candied sugar to serve the devotees, he himself loved to eat various food items to entertain the devotees. Kishore Gadadhar would not eat Dakshineshwar's food, because Kaivarta was the queen of Jan Bazar. How can a Brahmin eat food at the hands of Shudrani! So he burned his hands and cooked boiled rice and ate it. Thus the conservative Tagore became the Tagore of love. He gave love unreservedly. Tagore was a man with a thin stomach, he always ate light food. Gurupak would not even touch the food cooked with ghee in the temple. He used to drink Ganges water, so he used to get stomach ailment. At first Hridiyaram and later Sarada used to eat food cooked by mother. That food was equivalent to food. Naren also eats the banjan cooked by his mother for Tagore. The Gurupak Khichuri Bhog of the temple took his share allocation from the temple authorities and distributed it among the common people.

Among Tagore's favorite foods were sweets, the famous Bhimnag sandesh being one of his favourites. But the other two sweets white bhonde and jilipi were two of Tagore's favorite sweets. Legend has it that Tagore was very fond of eating white bhonde at Satyakingar Modak shop in Kamarpukur. Many say that some boy from Modak's house was a classmate of Tagore. Sada Bonde is the famous sweet of Kamarpukur, the birthplace of Tagore. It is made from Ramakalai. This thing is not available anywhere else except Kamarpukur.

The most talked about dish after Jilipi is Kachuri. Tagore was very fond of eating Luchi, Puri, Parota. Thakur used to ask his mother to make thick parota and dal for Naren. This proves how much of a foodie Tagore was. Girish Ghosh lifting him from the plate of food; Tagore says that Girish is not allowed to eat such beautiful, hot Nuchi, and when he himself is unable to eat anything with his sick mouth, he is feeding Girish with Kochuri. These brothers of flour and flour were Tagore's favourites. In fact, North Kolkata is the capital of Chop Kachuri. That was Tagore's haunt.

The most talked about dish after Jilipi is Kachuri. Tagore was very fond of eating Luchi, Puri, Parota. Thakur used to ask his mother to make thick parota and dal for Naren. This proves how much of a foodie Tagore was. Girish Ghosh lifting him from the plate of food; Tagore says that Girish is not allowed to eat such beautiful, hot Nuchi, and when he himself is unable to eat anything with his sick mouth, he is feeding Girish with Kochuri. These brothers of flour and flour were Tagore's favourites. In fact, North Kolkata is the capital of Chop Kachuri. That was Tagore's haunt.

Sri Ramakrishnadev used to eat fagu sahu kachuri. But who is this fagu? According to family sources, Fagu Sahu was a resident of Bihar. He left Bihar to Kolkata in search of work. Then never went back. His business has been going on for four or five men. There are so many stories and stories surrounding Ramakrishnadev's relationship with the ancient and well-known 'Mukhoruchi' vegetarian oil shop in Barahnagar. Ramakrishnadev was a great devotee of Fagu. One day he was returning from Calcutta by horse cart. Along with his nephew Ramlal and coachman of the car. Across the street is Fagur's vegetarian oil fry shop. Ramakrishnadev asked Ramlal, "Is there money in the tank?" As soon as Ramlal said yes, the order came, "Go and buy the kachuri." Ramlal went to fetch kachuri. Ramakrishna Dev sitting in the car. Fagu cared for Ramakrishna very much. First he gave water and two khilis to drink. Then gave kachuri. Ramlal brought the kachuri and saw that Ramakrishnadev was not in the car. When asked about the coachman, he said, "Tagoor got down from the car a long time ago and went straight." Ramlal then ran towards the direction Ramakrishna had gone.

Ramlal saw him at a distance and asked, "Where are you going alone?" Ramakrishnadev then says, "I will eat Fagur Kachuri". He kept on walking towards Dakshineshwar. Gopallal Thakur Road is on one side of Baranagar area and Kashipur Road is on the other side. At the junction of these two roads, next to the Kali temple stands the famous vegetarian televazar 'Fagur Shop', named 'Mukhoruchi'. History is inextricably linked with this shop. There is a special text attached to the photo frame when entering the shop, "Just north of this Kali Mandir there was a Phagu shop. Sri Sri Sri Ramakrishnadev used to love to eat Kachuri from the Phagu shop. Now there is a kitchen where there was an open rice food shop, a food shop is also running in that place named Mukhoruchi." Below the text is a reference to a 1967 souvenir of the Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission Ashram. A Kalimandir still exists today next to the shop