Nigamananda Paramahansa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hindu spiritual leader
Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1880
Place of Birth: Kutabpur, West Bengal, India
Date of Death: 29-Nov-1935
Profession: writer, philosopher
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Nigamananda Paramahansa
- Swami Nigamananda Paramahansa (born Nalinikanta Chattopadhyay; 18 August 1880 – 29 November 1935) was a Sadguru, Hindu yogi, guru and mystic well known in Eastern India.
- He is associated with the shakti cult and viewed as a perfect spiritual master of tantra, gyan, yoga and prema or bhakti.
- His followers idealized him as their worshipped and beloved thakura. Nigamananda was born into a Bengali Brahmin family in the hamlet of Kutabpur in Nadia district (at present Meherpur district Bangladesh).
- He was a sannyasi from Shankar's cult.
- After his ordination as a sannyasi, he came to be known as Paribrajakacharya Paramahansa Srimat Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Deva.Nigamananda achieved siddhi (perfection) in four different sadhanas (spiritual disciplines): tantra, gyan, yoga and prema.
- Based on these experiences, he wrote five Bengali language books: Brahamcharya Sadhana (?????????? ????), Yogi Guru (????????), Gyani Guru (??????????), Tantrika Guru (????????????), and Premik Guru (???????????).
- Nigamananda reportedly experienced the state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi.After retiring from Saraswata Matha, Nigamananda spent the last fourteen years of his life in Puri.
- Durga Charan Mohanty, a school student, met him at Nilachala Kutir in 1930 and recognized him as sadguru.
- Mohanty became Nigamananda's disciple and wrote books for Nigamananda's establishment Nilachala Saraswata Sangha and translated Nigamananda's Bengali books into Odia.
- Under Mohanty's encouragement, more than 100 ashrams operate in Odisha.
- Mohanty continued to spread the message of Nigamananda until his death on 7 December 1985.
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