GIRISH CHANDRA GHOSH
Girish Chandra Ghosh was the bright example of how the touch of seer can turn a sinner into a saint. From the depth of moral degradation, he was raised by the influence of the God-man of Dakshineswar to a height of glory from where his moral and spiritual influence spread through different channels to a very wide area. ‘There is no sin which I have not committed’, Girish once said, ‘but still there is no end of grace I have received from the Master.’ He did not seek God but God sought him. But once his mind turned towards God, he stormed the citadel of heaven, as it were, and compelled God to love him with all his faults and weakness of the flesh. His was an indomitable and invincible spirit. He was heroic in every respect - in his self-indulgence in early days when his nature was turbulent, as also in his dynamic faith in later years when his thoughts turned towards religion. When he was in atheist, nobody dared argue with him about the existence of any Reality behind the material universe; when he was a social rebel, people thought he was lost beyond redemption; when he got interested in religion, his faith was so great that it was the despair of many religious-minded persons and it was so virile that many a lukewarm devotee would throng round him just to kindle the fire of devotion from him.
