Famous Bollywood Actress Mamata Kulkarni opts serenity: Takes sannyas, becomes Maha Mandaleswari in Kinnara Akhara

Prayagraj, June 25: At a time when most of the ace actress of film industries are crazy for leading lavish life, sinking deep in the earthly bondages, famous Bollywood Actress Mamta Kulkarni has opted serenity, took sannyas and became Maha Mandaleswari at a Prayagrj-based Akhara of saints.

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Mamta accepted absolute hermitage at the Kinnara Akhara, breaking all of her family affairs and emotional threads from the society, and attended solitude being identified as ‘Maa Mamata Nand Giri’ after formal Dikshyant(a special ritual to induct a common man into Bramhacharya)

After performing 'Pind Daan', the Kinnar Akhara performed her pattabhishek (consecration ceremony). 

Mamta Kulkarni, 52, reached the Kinnar Akhara in Maha Kumbh on Friday where she met Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi of Kinnar Akhara and sought his blessings. She also met the president of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP), Mahant Ravindra Puri. 

Mamta Kulkarni took a dip in the sacred waters of the Sangam and was seen in the clothes of a 'sadhvi'.

Kinnar Akhara's Mahamandaleshwar Kaushalya Nand Giri alias Tina Maa told PTI that Mamta Kulkarni performed her own 'Pind Daan' on the banks of River Ganga on Friday. Around 8 pm, she was consecrated as mahamandaleshwar amid Vedic chanting in the Kinnar Akhara.

With this induction, Mamta Kulkarni joins the ranks of the revered mahamandaleshwars -- a title given to spiritual leaders who play a vital role in religious discourse and social upliftment. 

After sanyas and pattabhishek, Mamta said it would be "my good fortune that I am also becoming a witness in this holy moment of Maha Kumbh". 

She said she was receiving the blessings of the saints. She took initiation ('deeksha') from Guru Shri Chaitanya Gagan Giri in Kupoli Ashram 23 years ago and now she was entering a new life with complete sanyas, the statement added. 

Speaking to reporters, Mamta Kulkarni said, "I started my penance ('tapasya') in 2000. And I chose Laxmi Narayan Tripathi as my 'pattaguru' because today is Friday... it is the day of Maha Kaali (Goddess Kaali). 

"Yesterday, preparations were on to make me a mahamandaleshwar. But today Maa Shakti instructed me that I choose Laxmi Narayan Tripathi because that person is a 'saakshaat' (direct) form of Ardhnaareshwar. What else can be a bigger title than an Ardhnaareshwar doing my 'pattabhishek'," she said. 

Mamta Kulkarni said she had to face a tough series of examinations for earning the title of ‘Mahamandaleshwari’. 

"I was asked what did I do in 23 years. When I cleared all the examinations, I got the 'upaadhi' of mahamandaleshwar," she said.

She said she was feeling very nice here and such planetary positions are being formed after 144 years. No Maha Kumbh could be as pious as this one, she added.