JOGIN MA
With reference to Jogin Ma Sri Ramakrishna once remarked that she was not an ordinary bud blossoming quickly, but rather the bud of a thousand-petalled lotus opening slowly. As time rolled on, these prophetic words became literally true. Indeed, Jogin Ma’s life was really a type of the ancient Indian womanhood, rich with profound spiritual experiences. The early name of Jogin Ma was Jogindra Mohini Mitra. She was born on 16 January `1851, in North Calcutta, from where came many devotees and disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. Her father, Dr. Prasanna Kumar Mitra, was a rich and influential man. She was given away in marriage while very young to a well-known rich zamindar family of Khardah, near Calcutta. Her husband was the late Ambika Charan Biswas, one of whose ancestors was the celebrated Prankrishna Biswas who compiled the famous treatise on Tantra, called the Pranatoshini Tantra. The hope of her parents to see their daughter happy being married into a rich, aristocratic family was dashed to pieces. The marriage proved most unhappy. The young husband became addicted to drink, squandered away everything and became literally a street-beggar. Jogin Ma became disgusted with the household of her
