Swami Nigamananda
Swami Nigamananda ( named Nalinikanta during birth) was born in Kutabpur presently in Bangladesh in the year 1879.
He was a very intelligent bold and fearless man right from his birth. He lost his mother during his childhood itself. During her mothers last breath she told to Nalini that she his handing over his charges to the divine mother, This made Nalini seek for her day and night. Even in his dreams he used to desperately seek for the vision of the divine mother. After all this he did not receive any results and thought that God does not exists. There is nothing called absolutism but death is the only truth. He became so mentally disturbed that everything around him he looked through an eye of agnosticism. He used to put off his anger and desperation on the rishis, sadhus and monks he saw, he thought that they are only worthless, lazy people without any goal in life.
He was in such of a state which is similar to Kristodas Pal mentioned in Kathamarita saying to Sri Ramakrishna that rather than seeking the absolute we should help the poor or improve the society by our tasks. In this context Sri Ramakrishna had said to him that. "You dare to slight in these terms renunciation and piety, which our scriptures describe as the greatest of all virtues! After reading two pages of English you think you have come to know the world! You appear to think you are omniscient. Well, have you seen those tiny crabs that are born in the Ganges just when the rains set in? In this big universe you are even less significant than one of those small creatures. How dare you talk of helping the world? The Lord will look to that. You haven't the power in you to do it." After a pause the Master continued: "Can you explain to me how you can work for others? I know what you mean by helping them. To feed a number of persons, to treat them when they are sick, to construct a road or dig a well — isn't that all? These, are good deeds, no doubt, but how trifling in comparison with the vastness of the universe! How far can a man advance in this line? "
After his Mothers death Nalini for maintaining his family married Sudhansubala Devi. But soon his wife also died. This made a turning point in his life after which he began learning and going deep into thinking of life and death and began asking questions humanity has been asking since time immemorial. Nalinikanta was looking for his dead wife though he saw her through some occult practices but swami Purnananda suggested him that women and all mankind are part and parcel of mahamaya or the divine mother. One should seek her to know the entirety. One night Nalinikanta saw one Sadhu with a brilliant aura around him in his dream. He woke up to find the Sadhu standing beside his bed in 'reality'. The Sadhu handed out to him a leaf bearing a mantra on it and then disappeared. Nalinikanta was spellbound by the incident. He did not know what to do with the mantra. No sadhu or spiritual teacher, whom he consulted, could decipher the mantra nor could they give him any guidance about what to do with it. At this point of time a given-up Nalinikanta received directions in his dream to go to the greatest tantrik guru of that time - Bamakhypa, at Tarapith of Birbhum, in West Bengal. Bamakhypa accepted him as his disciple. He Mastered the techniques of Tantra and by the grace of divine mother he was able to see her. He saw that whenever divine mother used to appera a bright light used to emanate from his body, this made him to search for truth within himself through Advaita.
He became a disciple of guru Srimad Swami Satchidananda Saraswati at the holy place of 'Pushkar' in the state of Rajasthan, India. He instantly realized that Swami Satchidananda Saraswati was the sadhu who gave him the 'Tara' mantra in his dream. After many years of practice through the grace of divine mother he was able to reach the Nirvikalpa Samadhi where he realized he himself is Brahman.
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