By 1930, she had left her family and was living permanently in the Ashram. On 7 June 1928, just four days after the establishment of the Ashram in Kasargod, the young widow Krishnabai arrived in Kasargod to stay with her sister-in-law. This ashram would prove to be the site for the sadhana and self-realization of Mother Krishnabai. Within the Ashram, hymns are sung, and the chanting of God’s names goes on, all day and night. Morning and evening, the sweet notes of birds fill the air with thrills of ecstasy. It is situated in a jungle, at the foot of hills, near a swift running stream. In a letter dated 14 June 1928, Swami Ramdas describes the Ashram thus: “For about a fortnight last, Ramdas has been occupying the new Ashram, got ready for His child by Sri Ram. This Anandashram was inaugurated on 3 June 1928. also suggested that it might be named ‘Anandashram.'” A small Ashram consisting of a tiny room and an open veranda was constructed upon the hill, to the south of which flowed the Payashwini river. He had recently stayed in Kasargod in North Kerala where he had been, according to his memoirs, “put up in a thatched hut on the Pilikunji Hill.” While in Bombay, Swami Ramdas wrote to Anandrao (his brother in Kasargod) “expressing a wish to have an Ashram in that place on the Pilikunji hill.
The idea of setting up an ashram or spiritual centre called “Anandashram” seems to have first occurred to Swami Ramdas in Bombay.
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