The Eternal Divine Light

Dev Sangha Institute of Professional Studies and Educational Research (DIPSER) was established by Shrimad Acharya Saumyendra Nath Brahmachary Ji (1946 – 2012). A First Class First Mechanical Engineer and a Gold Medalist from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he was awarded the prestigious B C Roy Gold Medal as the best all-rounder graduate of the Institute (batch of 1968).

Pujya Acharya Ji worked in the corporate world for ten years and rose to a senior position with the leading multinational of the day at a young age. Subsequently, inspired by his enlightened Master Shrimad Narendra Nath Brahmachary Ji, he gave up his brilliant management career to become a full-time spiritual aspirant, a brahmachari. He went on to spend five years in intense sadhana (meditation) and two years on pilgrimage across India. The biggest gain from this journey, he used to say, was a secular insight into the country. “It is only when you travel as a common man that you see the real country, come into intimate contact with its people.”

Pujya Acharya Ji continued to devote the rest of his life in the quest for eternal truth, combining it with creative institution building for spiritual and material upliftment of youth. In 1988, he was initiated as the Acharya (spiritual head) of Dev Sangha Ashram at Deoghar in Jharkhand. “Our ashram believes in resurrecting the Rishi culture of ancient India where there was no contradiction between—but rather a harmonious blending of—material well-being and spiritual upliftment," he used to maintain.

Later, with the support of his friends and Ashram colleagues, Pujya Acharya Ji founded Dev Sangha Seva Pratisthan (DSSP) as the service wing of Dev Sangha to work primarily in the field of education and set up a (10+2) CBSE school, and a college of teachers' education for women offering D.El.Ed., B.Ed. and M.Ed. courses along with research facilities. DSSP regards women's education in the tribal state of Jharkhand as the most powerful tool for facilitating their economic empowerment and social upliftment. He,the teacher of teachers, was regarded as an extraordinarily gifted speaker bringing in, in simultaneously a most penetrating and entertaining manner,  the quiet and brilliant wisdom of the Rishis of ancient India that informed the lives of king and subject alike, into everyday applications of modern life, organization, coordination and governance to help in identifying and resolving issues, while skilfully deconstructing the dichotomy between matter and spirit that had enervated the land over centuries to its great detriment. A highly respected and sought for guest lecturer, he was  regularly invited to speak in premier institutes of the country like the IITs, IIMs, BITS Pilani, Universities, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal (NJA), Management Training Institute Ranchi(MTI SAIL), Indian Institute of Coal Management Ranchi (IICM)), Administrative Training Institute Ranchi (ATI) and host of similar institutions both in India and in different countries of the World and spoke eloquently on varied facets of life - contemporary politics to decision-making, self-development, stress management, leadership, motivation and communication and  of the joyful and pervasive nature of boundless wisdom.

He left for his eternal abode quietly on June 23, 2012. His golden light shall always guide us all in our journey of life.