Matua Maha Mela 2023: Matua Dharma Maha Mela 2023 will begin in West Bengal on Sunday. And responding to a tweet by Union Minister Shri Shantanu Thakur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to attend this spiritual celebration. He wrote: “The MatuaMahaMela2023 is an important event that showcases the vibrant culture of the Matua community. I would urge more people to visit Mela. “Humanity will always be indebted to Shri Shri Harichand Thakur Ji for showing the path of kindness and service.”
He #MatuaMahaMela2023 It is an important event that showcases the vibrant culture of the Matua community. I would urge more people to visit the Mela. Humanity will always be indebted to Shri Shri Harichand Thakur Ji for showing the path of kindness and service. https://t.co/srKlvFcGvR
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi)
March 17, 2023
What is Matua Dharma Maha Mela?
An important occasion, Matua Maha Mela 2023 highlights the vibrant culture of the Matua community. The Matua community, a subset of lower-class AVARNA Hindus who belong to the Namasudra scheduled caste group and are also known as “Chandalas”, celebrate this festival. And the Matua Dharma Maha Mela is an opportunity to celebrate the Matua traditions and way of life, which were established by Shree Shree Harichand Thakur and developed by Guruchand Thakur and Boro Ma.
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Matua Dharma Maha Mela 2023: date, time and address
Every year, All India Matua Mahasangha organizes the Matua Dharma Mela. It will take place from March 19 to 25 of this year. The seven-day event will be held at Shreedham Thakurnagar, Thakurbari, West Bengal. In the Indian state of West Bengal, Thakurnagar is located near the border with Bangladesh.
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A significant number of people in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh are members of the Matua Mahasangha, a religious reform movement that began in present-day Bangladesh around 1860 AD. The movement was started as a reform by followers of Harichand Thakur. The chanting of Harinaam, or the Holy Name of God Hari, is a key component of the Matua Mahasangha’s belief in Swayam-Dikshiti (also known as “Self-Realization”). |
Who is Harishchandra Thakur?
The Matua sect was founded by the devout Hindu Thakur, Harichand (1811-1877). He started a social and religious movement in 1860 in Orakandi, which is now in Bangladesh, and this movement eventually led to the creation of Matua.
This sect opposed caste oppression and later attracted members from other communities, including Malis and Telis, who were ostracized by the upper castes. Thakur’s devotees consider him God and refer to him as Thakur, an avatar of Vishnu or Krishna. As a result, he earned the name Sri Sri Harichand Thakur. He had two children with “Jagat Mata” Shanta Mata, his wife. Later, around 1878, he passed away in the Faridpur district of Bangladesh.
Who was Harichand Thakur and the importance of the Matua community?
In the years before independence, he dedicated his entire life to the cause of helping the downtrodden, underprivileged and downtrodden of the entire Bengal. His sermons emphasized Truth, Love and Healing as the three fundamental guidelines for obtaining salvation. His philosophy holds that all traditional rituals, apart from devotion to God, belief in humanity, and love for all living beings, are meaningless distractions from the true quest for God.
The popular 12 instructions that he gave to his followers are:
- Be honest at all times.
- Give the woman the respect she deserves and treat her like your mother.
- Always show respect to your parents.
- Love, compassion and kindness are how you should treat your neighbors and all other living beings on Earth.
- Never make racial distinctions.
- Take control of your six mental passions: lust, anger, greed, infatuation, pride and jealousy.
- Keep an open mind to all other religions and philosophies.
- Be honest in your thoughts and actions, and refrain from dressing in holy clothes to improve your appearance.
- Perform your duties with devotion, pronounce the holy Haribol and pray to God all at once.
- Build a Shree Hariparameshwar temple in your home and in your heart and soul.
- Offer your daily prayers to God in fervent holiness.
- Surrender yourself to the cause of God.
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After his death, one of his sons, Guruchand Thakur, who was also a Chandala or Avarna, launched a campaign to reclassify Chandala as Namasudra.
The Prime Minister has on multiple occasions recalled his happiness at being able to visit Bangladesh’s Orakandi Thakurbari in March 2021, as well as in February 2019 and before. He highlights the importance of bowing down to the Matua tradition, the roots of which were laid by Shree Shree Harichand Thakur ji and further developed by Guruchand Thakur ji and Boro Ma, during the Matua Dharma Maha Mela. And to carry on his legacy, one must adhere to non-violent principles and give selflessly to the country.
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