And these bhavas would descend upon him when not singing too. It is said that he even forgot who and where he was when he entered such states. Often when he sang he would fall into intense bhavas (states of strong spiritual emotion). Bamakhepa was discovered as the culprit but, no matter how severely his parents scolded him, they could not prevent him from taking the images.īama Khepa’s father was a singer by profession, but he also showed the signs of being an ecstatic. When, in the morning, the villagers couldn’t find their family deities, they would make a big scene. There he worshipped the images all night long. He had other peculiar habits in his childhood too.Īt the dead of night, he liked to steal into his neighbors’ houses, take their images of Gods and Goddesses and carry them to a riverbank some distance away. It should be noted that this use of khepa meant, not mad in the ordinary sense, but was a term used by Tantrics to denote one who was divinely mad, one who was a great soul.īama would have tantrums and erratic moods from the youngest age, often screaming and crying and rolling on the floor when the image of Kali Maa would not answer his prayers. But even as a child, he was considered ‘mad’ Bama, and thus the name Bama Khepa arose. His sister also displayed great religious zeal, and was called khepi, madwoman.īama Khepa was given the name Bamacara by his father at birth. Bama Khepa had one other brother and a sister.
His father, Sarvananda Chatterjee, was described as being a very pious and religious man, as was his mother. Shri Shri Bama Khepa (Bam Dev) of Tarapith was born in 1837 in the village of Atla near Tarapith in Birbhum district of West Bengal.
“Drill right into me… you’ll find nothing there.”
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