We visited the Kashmar Ramakrishna Sarada Sevashrama last weekend. It is a private ashram based on the ideal of Sri Ramakrishna Deva, Sri Sri Ma Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda in the most interrior place of Jungle Mahal area of West Bengal. This is situated in Kashmar village, Chakadoba Post Office, Banspahari Police Station in Jhargram Subdivision of West Midnapore District of West Bengal. We took the route NH-6 - Midnapore - Dherua - Jhargram - Silda - Belpahari - Chakadoba - Kankrajhore. We crossed the Cossaye river thrice in this route. The road thorogh hill and jungle is really thrilling. The condition of road was mostly very good. But mobile phone connectivity is very poor there, specially BSNL signal is not available there, but Vodafone and some other does.
We reached the Sevashrama Campus where Swami Surendrananda-ji (Braja Maharaj) welcomed us by opening the gate himself. We offered our pranam to Maharaj-ji and observed that Maharaj-ji himself is cooking for all of us. So some of us, took the charge of rest of the cooking from him and the rest sneaked into the vegetable garden into the Sevashrama premises. The vegetable garden is really marvelous where lots of onion, potato, cabbage, cauli flower, papaya, lemon tree was seen in the hilly soil. Few local people were seen working in the garden.The Sevashrama campus also houses one Child Education Centre, where local children, mostly tribal, get education. Among other activities of the Sevashrama are the training program of the local farmers with resource persons from outside, providing shirts, dress, cloths, and blankets to the local needy people, and providing nutritious foods to the primary level school children who are mostly tribal and includes children from Shabar community - a section of tribal who are among the most backward and under-developed. I was wondering at the energy level of Maharaj-ji when I saw him supervising the work after the meal without taking any rest and then meeting with all the people who were coming to him and talking. He was discussing about the the program of second foundation day to be held on 17th November, 2015. He was thinking how to reach out to wider section of the society for help towards temple construction to be started. What I was feeling that the struggling times of any organization with limited resources but with strong will power to progress further during the initial period before it gets firm on its own feet is really to be saluted and is to be shared.
We visited Kankrajhor, 10 KM from here. The route towards Kanrajhor, after Chhurimara is completely hilly and forest area. We spotted the trekking route from Kankrajhor to Bhulaveda, 15 KM trekking route. The road condition here has been well maintained. Also we marched from Kankrajhor further towards Amjharna through Amlashol, and spotted the Elephant Corridor, also the house on the tree top to watch the elephants.
While returning back from Kashmar, halted at Midnapore RKM for few minutes and offered our pranam at the temple in the late evening.
