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Chinmayanand Saraswati was an Indian independence fighter. On 21 December 1909, he was with their seniors & colleagues(Anant Kanhere, Vinayak Deshpande, Anna Krve, Shankar Soman, Ganu Vaidya,and Waman Joshi)at Vijayanand Natya Mandir to shoot the Collector Jackson of Nashik in British India. The Killing of Jackson was an important event in the history of Nashik and the Indian revolutionary movement.

Life

Chinmayanand Saraswati(Kashinath Hari Ankushkar)Maharaj was born in Bawane Pangari, a small village in Jalna district Maharashtra. He had four brothers and two sisters. He completed his primary & high school education in Hyderabad (which was the Capital city of Nizamshah), and he was in Aurangabad to take part in the entrance exam of drawing course of Mumbai School of Arts. Later he came in contact with the members of secret revolutionary groups called "Abhinav Bharat" at that time, and was attracted towards their work. the time & the atmosphere in India and Maharashtra, called the Central Province during the British era, was very much charged with anti-British feelings. Nashik was at the forefront with the formation of the revolutionary organization Abhinav Bharat Society by the Savarkar Brothers. Many small secret revolutionary organizations were formed in and around Nashik, guided by Babarao Savarkar, elder brother of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Krishnaji Gopal Karve, popularly called Anna Karve, had formed one such secret society in Nashik. Anna Karve was a young lawyer who aspired to do something for his motherland. Another member of the secret society was Vinayak Narayan Deshpande, who was also one of the main accused in the Jackson Murder case; he was a teacher in an English Medium school in Panchavati, Nashik. After fired by Anant Kanhere, British Police immediately arrested them but the same time the other member of the group escape from the theater. Then the British Govt. torch erred all of them in "Nashik Khun Khatala". On 29th March 1910 the panishment of "hang till death" declared by the court to Anant Kanhere, Anna Karve, Vinayak Deshpande and due to minor by age only punishment of imprisonment to Chinmayanand Saraswati (Kashinath Hari Ankushkar) Maharaj. Afterward due to this case the elder brother Balkrishna Ankushkar was suspended from the service by Nizam Govt & acquired all the money & wealth by calling "RashtraDrohi". The other brother Narayan Ankushkar also suspended from the Service of Teacher. Then after few years they got married due to the force by the family members, there was two girls born in between. But this was not their life. And then they meet to their Guru Shri Dattavatar Rangnath Maharaj(Navha). They feel to leave family life, but his mother against this. But after giving birth to a male child(Sarvottam) they separated himself from family life. महाराजांनि त्यांच्या गुरुशी बोलून सन्यास घेण्याचा विचार मांडला. तेव्हा त्यांची वैराग्यस्थिति जानुन त्यांना सन्यास दीक्षा देण्याची तयारी केली. आणि श्रीगुरुकडून इ.स.१९३७ मधे मुरुड़ेश्वर ता. सिल्लोड, जिल्हा औरंगाबाद या सिद्ध क्षेत्री सन्यास दीक्षा घेतली. चिन्मयानन्द आत्मानंदात विलीन होउन परमहंस स्थितीत आनंद सोहाळयात चिन्मयानन्द सरस्वती म्हणून नामारुपास आले. दी. १५ अगस्त १९७० ला महाराष्ट्र शासनाने महाराजाना त्यांचे स्वतंत्र संग्रामातिल दैदीप्यमान ऐतिहासिक अशा कामगिरीबद्दल "स्वातंत्र्य सैनिक" म्हणून गौरवपत्र दिले . व शासनाचे योजनेनुसार मानधानासाठीचा मागनिप्रस्ताव सादर करण्याचे सुचविले . गतस्म्रुतिच्या इतिहासने महाराज विदीर्ण व संतप्त झाले . स्वतंत्रापूर्व काळात स्वातंत्र्यासाठी कित्येकानी हौतात्म्य पत्कारले. कित्येकानी जन्मठेप, कारावास शिक्षा भोगल्या .अनन्वित छळ व शारीरिक हल्ले भोगले. कित्येक कुटुंब उध्वस्त झालीत. त्यांचा साधा इतिहास नाही. व असेल तर तो चुकीचा व विपर्यस्त असेल. त्यांचे मनाला वेदना झाल्या. मिळालेले 'सन्मानपत्र' त्यांनी शासनाला तितक्याच सन्मानाने परत केले. सन १९५९ मधे त्यांनी श्री दत्तावतार रंगनाथ महाराज यांचे अलौकिक जीवन कार्य चरित्र रुपाने(प्रथम आवृत्ति) इ.स.१९५९ मधे प्रकाशित केली. त्याची प्रस्तावना थोर सत्पुरुर्ष ब्र.ब्र.श्रीगुरु धुंडीराज महाराज कविश्वर यांनी केली. महाराजांनी दी. ७ ऑक्टोबर १९६८ शनिवार कोजागिरी पौर्णिमेच्या दिवशी ग्रहण योगामधे, देउळगाँवराजा जिल्हा बुलढाना महाराष्ट्र येथे नदीच्या पात्रामधे योगस्थितित समाधी घेतली. प.पु.श्री गुरु महाराजांचे शब्दात- "कैसा चालवाया ग्रंथ | केवी राखावा पदपदार्थ || हे युत्पत्तिची नेणें मी मात | बोलवी समर्थ जनार्दन || उणे देखाल जेथे जेथे | ते तें करावे पुरतें || सज्जनामाजी सरते | करावे माते ग्रंथार्थसिद्धि" ||