Like every year on January 1, lakhs of devotees queued up outside the Dakshineswar Temple on the occasion of Kalpataru Utsav
Devotees assembled in front of the room at Cossipore Udyanbati to offer their homage to Sri Ramakrishna where the sage had breathed his last in 1886
Sri Ramakrishna had lived in this north Kolkata house for the last few months of his life with his disciples
Monks of the order believe that on Kalpataru Day — January 1, 1886 — Sri Ramakrishna had revealed himself to be an avatar (God incarnate)
One of his disciples, Ramachandra Dutta, had said that on this day Sri Ramakrishna had become Kalpataru - the mythical wish-fulfilling tree
Kalpataru Utsav was also celebrated at Adyapith
