AnandaMayi Ma, a very well known self realized female saint, was born in 1896 and took samadhi at the age of 86 in 1982.  Thus Her life overlapped, however briefly, with Brahmajna Ma's, and it was only fitting that there were some links between the two Divine Beings.  As both were realized beings, the teachings and utterances of both Mothers were very similar.

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The connection to AnandaMayi Ma was through Swami Paramananda whose childhood preceptor was Brahmajna Ma, becoming one of the Her early disciples.  After Mother's passing, Swamiji joined the Ashram of AnandaMayi Ma and it was through this connection that AnandaMayi Ma came to visit Nirban Math in Deoghar.  The particulars are briefly provided in the following description of Swamiji's life as provided in the website https://www.anandamayi.org/paramananda/.

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Swamiji was born in October 1900 in village Lakshmipur, Chandpur sub-division, in the undivided Comilla district of E. Bengal, in a devout Brahmin family that had already produced several sadhus. Swamiji was the youngest of three brothers and he had five sisters. His eldest brother died of cholera. He was educated in Chandpur, while staying at his maternal uncle’s house in Bitara village . As ordained by fate, his uncle’s neighbours were the devout family of Brahmajna Ma, a renowned saint of E. Bengal, whose youngest brother Jatin Chakravarti was a classmate of Swamiji.

 

Swamiji was attracted to the ascetic way of life from boyhood. In this, he found an excellent mentor in the life and teachings of Brahmajna Ma, who exerted a tremendous influence on all she came in contact with. She was a child widow, and developed spontaneously all the highest forms of sadhana from a young age. She was born in 1879, suffered from constant poor health, and must have been in her 30’s when Swamiji first met her. Brahmajna Ma was very fond of Swamiji and whenever she needed something done, she used to send for him.

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1927 found him in Belur Math for 6 month from where the R. K. Mission sent him to Deoghar Vidyapith in 1928. At this stage Swamiji must have arranged to bring Brahmajna Ma to Deoghar, as the latter’s poor health obliged her to pay frequent visits to Pun and Deoghar, both renowned as sanatoriums. Having organised the nucleus of an Ashram for Brahmajna Ma at Deoghar. Swamiji wandered away in his quest for the unknown to Uttarkashi, Gangotri and even beyond, where he sat at the feet of such highly learned Mahatmas as Tapovan Maharaj at Gomukh, and Devi Giri Maharaj at Ujeli, a couple of miles north of Uttarkashi.

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In 1934 Brahmajna Ma fell seriously ill in Deoghar, and although word was sent to Swamiji in the remote mountains, he eventually reached Deoghar only to find that his boyhood preceptor had breathed her last a day or two previously. Swamiji spent some time in building and organising Nirvana Math at Deoghar in memory of Brahmajna Ma, and then returned again to his beloved Himalayas.But Swamiji never lost his love for Nirvana Math or its occupants, with whom he used to correspond regularly, and later accompanied Sri Ma to the Math whenever Ma visited Deoghar.

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Following Brahmajna Ma's passing in 1934,  presumably based on the contact established by Swami Paramananda, Santi Sengupta, the eldest child of Shri Dhirendra Nath Sen, would meet with Anandamayi Ma whenever She would visit Calcutta.  As related by Sumana Ray, Santi Sengupta's daughter, Anandamayi  Ma would either visit his office or meet in the maidans at the Ladies Golf Club.