Main Temple

In the year 1847, the wealthy widow queen Rani Rasmani prepared to go upon a long pilgrimage to the sacred city of Banaras to express her devotions to the Divine Mother. In those days there was no railway line between Calcutta and Banaras and it was more comfortable for rich persons to make the journey by boat rather than by road. We are told that the convoy of Rani Rasmani consisted of twenty four boats carrying relatives, servants, and supplies. But the night before the pilgrimage began, the Divine Mother, in the form of the goddess Kali, intervened. She appeared to the Rani in a dream and said, "There is no need to go to Banaras. Install my statue in a beautiful temple on the banks of the Ganges river and arrange for my worship there. Then I shall manifest myself in the image and accept worship at that place." Profoundly affected by the dream, the Rani immediately looked for and purchased land, and promptly began construction of the temple. The large temple complex, built between 1847 and 1855, had as its centerpiece a shrine of the goddess Kali, but also had temples dedicated to the deities Shiva and Radha-Krishna. A scholarly and elderly sage was chosen as the head priest and the temple was consecrated in 1855. Within the year this priest died and his responsibility passed to his younger brother, Ramakrishna, who over the next thirty years would bring great fame to the Dakshineswar temple.
In later days, we all are aware about the realities how Rama Krishna derived his Liberation and trance by the touch of the image of Goddess Kali there and acquired the supernatural power and became an ascetic with divine austerity. There also the Cosmic grace of Maa-Kali turned. Ramakrishna as a saint, as an incarnation of Lord Rama and Krishna together in one embodiment. Swami Vivekanand got his blessings and contemplated his preaching globally to serve humanity, to serve all living souls, to serve the Lord Shiva and taking all religions to be one and only one for the God being the one - the power omnipotent. Even now, we get the blessings of Maa-Kali from Dakshineswar for any distress of life, any problem of mental agonies and anxieties or for any family criticalities to get peaceful solutions and successful achievements in fulfilling the prayers by the touch of Her auspecious Nirmalya and Pujas with pure heart.

WHAT WE DO

We shall arrange Puja at the temple for you and your family (maximum 4 persons) through one learned Purohit offering necessary Sweets, Khichuri, Flowers and other materials (most of them will be sent to you after Puja). One Brahmin/Kangali Bhojon will also be arranged at the Temple on behalf of your family to have blessings. Necessary materials will be sent to you after the Puja through a good courier. We cannot send Prosad or flowers to USA,UK and a few other countries due to restrictions but all other materials as detailed below will be used during the Puja and will be sent to you. You must be knowing the expenses to arrange one learned Purohit, travelling cost, cost of Prosad-bhog-Brahmin Bhojon, Puja materials, office maintenance and courier cost. To meet all these, we offer a moderate charge which is given below. Please send us one bank draft/cheque in favour of ASHIRBADEE and mail to the address given at the "contact" page of this web site. The form should be downloaded from "contact" or "index" page and should be sent to us with the bank draft.

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