Actor Mamta Kulkarni renounces worldly life, becomes Mai Mamta Nand Giri

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

Kulkarni took a dip successful the ineffable waters of the Sangam and was seen successful the apparel of a ‘sadhvi’.

Kinnar Akhara’s Mahamandaleshwar Kaushalya Nand Giri alias Tina Maa told PTI that Mamta Kulkarni performed her ain ‘Pind Daan’ connected the banks of River Ganga connected Friday. Around 8 pm, she was consecrated arsenic mahamandaleshwar amid Vedic chanting successful the Kinnar Akhara.

With this induction, Mamta Kulkarni joins the ranks of the revered mahamandaleshwars — a rubric fixed to spiritual leaders who play a captious relation successful spiritual sermon and societal upliftment.

After sanyas and pattabhishek, Kulkarni said it would beryllium “my bully luck that I americium besides becoming a witnesser successful this beatified infinitesimal of Maha Kumbh”. She said she was receiving the blessings of the saints.

Speaking to reporters, Kulkarni said, “I started my tapasya successful 2000. And I chose Laxmi Narayan Tripathi arsenic my pattaguru due to the fact that contiguous is Friday… it is the time of Maha Kaali (Goddess Kaali). Yesterday, preparations were connected to marque maine a mahamandaleshwar. But contiguous Maa Shakti instructed maine that I take Laxmi Narayan Tripathi due to the fact that that idiosyncratic is simply a ‘saakshaat’ (direct) signifier of Ardhnaareshwar. What other tin beryllium a bigger rubric than an Ardhnaareshwar doing my pattabhishek.'”

Kulkarni said she had to look an introspection for the rubric of mahamandaleshwar.

“I was asked what did I bash successful 23 years. When I cleared each the examinations, I got the upaadhi of mahamandaleshwar,” she said.

Mamta Kulkarni said she was feeling precise bully present and specified planetary positions are being formed aft 144 years. No Maha Kumbh could beryllium arsenic pious arsenic this one, she added.

Asked whether determination was choler among a conception of the seers implicit her ‘deeksha’, she said, “Several radical are angry, my fans are besides angry, they consciousness that I volition instrumentality to Bollywood. But it is each right. Whatever the Gods wish. No 1 tin supercede the volition of Mahakaal and Mahakaali. He is param Brahm. I person performed the ritual of Pind Daan astatine Sangam.”

Tina Maa said Kulkarni has been associated with Juna Akhara for the past 2 years and she came successful interaction with Kinnar Akhara recently. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi confirmed Kulkarni’s relation with the Kinnar Akhara and her spiritual journey.

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“Mamta Kulkarni has been successful interaction with america for the past one-two years. She had antecedently been connected with Juna Akhara,” Tripathi said.

When Mamta Kulkarni came to Maha Kumbh, she expressed her privation to service Sanatan Dharm, the seer said, adding the seers bash not basal betwixt a devotee and the divine and thus, they respected her wish. Kulkarni has present completed the ineffable rituals and volition soon officially articulation the akhara, Tripathi said.

In a property league held aft the pattabhishek, Mamta Kulkarni said, “Laxmi Narayan Tripathi understood my 23 years of penance and Swami Mahendranand Giri Maharaj took my trial successful which I passed. I did not cognize that I was being tested for the past 3 days. I got the invitation to beryllium made mahamandaleshwar lone yesterday.” She said she joined the Kinnar Akhara due to the fact that it was the madhyam maargi (middle path).

About her movie journey, she said, “I acted successful 40-50 films and erstwhile I near the movie industry, I had 25 films successful hand. I did not instrumentality sanyas owed to immoderate problem, but to acquisition the bliss.”