Subject: re: Srila Gadadhara Pandita tirobhava tithi [disappearance day]

Srila Prabhupada presents the glories of Sri Gadadhara Pandita
compiled by Yasoda nandana dasa
gadādhara-paṇḍitādi--prabhura nija-śakti
tāṅ'-sabāra caraṇe mora sahasra praṇati
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the internal potencies of the Lord, of whom Śrī Gadādhara Prabhu is the foremost. Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 1: The Spiritual Masters : Adi 1.41
advaita ācārya, nityānanda, śrīnivāsa
gadādhara, dāmodara, murāri, haridāsa
āra yata caitanya-kṛṣṇera bhakta-gaṇa
bhakti-bhāve śire dhari sabāra caraṇa
The author of
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta teaches us that we must offer our respectful obeisances to all such pure confidential devotees of Lord
Caitanya if we indeed want to know Him in truth.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 4: The
Confidential Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance : Adi 4.227-228
gadādhara-paṇḍitādi prabhura 'śakti'-avatāra
'antaraṅga-bhakta' kari' gaṇana yāṅhāra
The devotees headed by Gadādhara Paṇḍita
are to be considered incarnations of the internal potency of the Lord.
They are confidential devotees engaged in the service of the Lord.
In connection with verses sixteen and seventeen, Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī Ṭhākura explains in his
Anubhāṣya:
"There are specific symptoms by which the internal devotees and the
unalloyed or pure devotees are to be known. All unalloyed devotees are
śakti-tattvas,
or potencies of the Lord. Some of them are situated in conjugal love
and others in filial affection, fraternity and servitude. Certainly all
of them are devotees, but by making a comparative study it is found that
the devotees or potencies who are engaged in conjugal love are better
situated than the others. Thus devotees who are in a relationship with
the Supreme Personality of Godhead in conjugal love are considered to be
the most confidential devotees of Lord Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Those who engage in the service of Lord
Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord
Advaita Prabhu
generally have relationships of parental love, fraternity, servitude
and neutrality. When such devotees develop great attachment for Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
they too become situated within the intimate circle of devotees in
conjugal love." This gradual development of devotional service is
described by Śrī Narottama
dāsa Ṭhākura as follows:
gaurāṅga balite habe pulaka śarīra
hari hari balite nayane ba'be nīra
āra kabe nitāicāṅda karuṇā karibe
saṁsāra-vāsanā mora kabe tuccha habe
viṣaya chāḍiyā kabe śuddha habe mana
kabe hāma heraba śrī-vṛndāvana
rūpa-raghunātha-pade ha-ibe ākuti
kabe hāma bujhaba śrī-yugala-pirīti
"When will there be eruptions on my body as soon as I chant the name of Lord
Caitanya, and when will there be incessant torrents of tears as soon as I chant the holy names
Hare Kṛṣṇa? When will Lord
Nityānanda
be merciful toward me and free me from all desires for material
enjoyment? When will my mind be completely freed from all contamination
of desires for material pleasure? Only at that time will it be possible
for me to understand
Vṛndāvana. Only if I become attached to the instructions given by the six Gosvāmīs, headed by
Rūpa Gosvāmī and
Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, will it be possible for me to understand the conjugal love of
Rādhā and
Kṛṣṇa." By attachment to the devotional service of Lord
Caitanya Mahāprabhu one immediately comes to the ecstatic position. When he develops his love for
Nityānanda Prabhu
he is freed from all attachment to the material world, and at that time
he becomes eligible to understand the Lord's pastimes in
Vṛndāvana. In that condition, when one develops his love for the six Gosvāmīs, he can understand the conjugal love between
Rādhā and
Kṛṣṇa.
These are the different stages of a pure devotee's promotion to conjugal love in the service of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa in an intimate relationship with Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuSri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features : Adi 7.17
jaya jayādvaita ācārya kṛpāmaya
jaya jaya gadādhara paṇḍita mahāśaya
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Ācārya, who is very merciful, and also to that great personality Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the learned scholar. Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 8: The Author Receives the Orders of Krsna and Guru : Adi 8.3
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu called Puṇḍarīka
Vidyānidhi "father," and He gave him the title Premanidhi. Puṇḍarīka
Vidyānidhi later became the spiritual master of Gadādhara Paṇḍita and an intimate friend of Svarūpa Dāmodara's. Gadādhara Paṇḍita
at first misunderstood Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi to be an ordinary
pounds-and-shillings man, but later, upon being corrected by Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he became his disciple. Another incident in the
life of Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi involves his criticizing the priest of the
Jagannātha temple, for which Jagannātha Prabhu chastised him personally
by slapping his cheeks. This is described in Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-līlā,
Chapter Seven. Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura informs us that
there are still two living descendants of the family of Puṇḍarīka
Vidyānidhi, who are named Śrī Harakumāra Smṛtitīrtha and Śrī
Kṛṣṇakiṅkara Vidyālaṅkāra. For further information one should refer to
the dictionary known as Vaiṣṇava-mañjuṣā
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila 10.14
baḍa śākhā,--gadādhara paṇḍita-gosāñi
teṅho lakṣmī-rūpā, tāṅra sama keha nāi
Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the fourth branch, is described as an incarnation of the pleasure potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. No one, therefore, can equal him.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975 Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 10: The
Trunk, Branches and Sub-branches of the Caitanya Tree : Adi 10.15
There is no information that Acyutānanda ever
married, but he is described as the biggest branch of the Advaita Ācārya
family. From a book named
Śākhā-nirṇayāmṛta it is understood that Acyutānanda was a disciple of
Gadādhara and that he took shelter of Lord Caitanya in Jagannātha Purī and engaged in devotional service. The
Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā,
Chapter Ten, states that Acyutānanda, the son of Advaita Ācārya, lived
in Jagannātha Purī, taking shelter of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Gadādhara Paṇḍita, in the last years of his life, also lived with Lord
Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī. There is no doubt, therefore,
that Acyutānanda was a disciple of Paṇḍita
Gadādhara.
In the accounts of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's dancing in front of the
car during the Ratha-yātrā festival, Acyutānanda's name is to be found
many times. It is stated that in the party of Advaita Ācārya from
Śāntipura, Acyutānanda was dancing and others were singing. At that time
the boy was only six years old.
The Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, compiled by Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra, has described Acyutānanda as a disciple of Gadādhara Paṇḍita
and a great and dear devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. According to
the opinion of some, he was an incarnation of Kārttikeya, the son of
Lord Śiva, and according to others he was formerly the
gopī named Acyutā. The
Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā has supported both these opinions. Another book,
Narottama-vilāsa,
compiled by Śrī Narahari dāsa, mentions Acyutānanda's presence during
the festival at Khetari. According to Śrī Narahari dāsa, during the last
days of his life Acyutānanda stayed in his house at Śāntipura,
but
during the presence of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu he lived at Jagannātha
Purī with Gadādhara Paṇḍita.Books : Sri Caitanya-caritamrta - 1975
Edition : Cc. Adi-lila : Adi 12: The Expansions of Advaita Acarya and
Gadadhara Pandita : Adi 12.17 : PURPORT
Main Deities: Sri Tota Gopinatha graces the centre altar with Sri
Radhika playing vina and Lalita sakhi playing flute on His left and
right. Being deeply absorbed in syama-rasa - the mellow of satisfying
all of Krishna’s conjugal desires - Radhika and Lalita-sakhi appear
black. Holding Her kacchapi-vina, Srimati Radharani curiously stands in
a three-fold bending form dancing in time with Her beloved syamam
tri-bhanga-lalitam. The left altar features Lord Balaram with Revati and
Varuni on His left and right. On right altar are Deities of Gaura-Gadadhara and
Sri Sri Radha Madana-mohana installed by Mamu Thakura. He is the nephew of Sri
Nilambara Cakravati, Lord Gauranga’s grandfather.

Sri Gaura `Gadadhra
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Tota Gopinatha has such a charismatic bewitching
quality that draws one to His darshana
over and over again. Srila Vrindavana Thakura extols His power: “Even an
extreme atheist will be changed upon seeing the Deity of Gopinatha.” At 7am
during darshana time, upon request, the pujari can show a small
golden streak on Gopinatha’s right knee where Mahaprabhu entered the Lord.
APPEARANCE OF SRI
TOTA GOPINATHA
Gopinatha temple is situated in Sri Ksetra Jagannatha
Puri Dhama in an area named Yamesvara Tota. When Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
took sannyasa, He stayed at
Jagannatha Puri Dhama for 18 years. Sri Gadadhara Pandita also came with
Mahaprabhu. Most of Mahaprabhu’s other associates in Navadvipa remained in
Bengal; they came to Puri only once in a year, for the four months of the rainy
season, to attend the Lord Jagannatha Rathayatra and to see Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. But Gadadhara Pandita couldn’t bear to be separated from the Lord,
and the Lord couldn’t bear to be separated from Him. So He was permitted to
stay with Mahaprabhu in Puri. Gadadhara Pandita resided here at Sri Tota
Gopinatha Temple. While residing here in this peaceful garden of trees and
creepers, Gadadhara Pandita recited Srimad-Bhagavatam every afternoon.
Mahaprabhu attended regularly and heard recount the stories of Dhruva Maharaj
and Prahlada Maharaj 100 times.
One day here, Sri Caitanyadeva experienced immense
separation from Lord Krishna. Crying out, “Where is My Prananatha,” Gauranga
started digging the earth to search of His Lord. Feeling the carved stone mukuta
of a murti below the ground, Gaurahari declared, “Gadai, I have found a
most precious treasure here. Would you like to accept it?” Noticing the head of
a murti emerging from the sand, Gadadhara helped Gauranga uncover a most
beautiful Deity of Supreme Lord Sri Krishna.
Mahaprabhu named the Deity, Gopinatha, and because He
appeared in this garden called tota in Oriya the devotees called Him, Tota
Gopinatha. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave the responsibility of Sri Tota
Gopinatha’s service to His most dear Gadadhara Pandita, and also awarded Him ksetra-sannyasa.
Sri Tota Gopinatha Deity is very beautiful. Sri
Vrindavana Dasa Thakura describes Sri Tota Gopinatha’s beauty in his Sri
Caitanya-Bhagavat as follows:
gadadhara bhavane mohana Gopinatha
achene, ye hena nanda-kumara saksat
apane Caitanya tare kariyachena kole
ati pasandi-o se vigraha dekhe bhule
dekhi sri-murali mukha angera bhangima
nityananda ananda asura nahi sima
(Sri Caitanya-Bhagavat Antya 7.114)
“In the house of Gadadhara there is most
attractive Gopinatha. This Deity looks exactly like son of Nanda Himself is
sitting there. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself had held Him in His lap. Even
most atheistic person will be changed to see this Deity. By seeing the posture
of the body and face with flute Lord Nityananda sheds tears of bliss
limitlessly.”

Gadadhara Pandita reciting the Srimad-Bhagavatam to Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Sri Sri Gaura Gadadhara at Campahatta These
Deities have been worshipped at Campahati since the time of Mahaprabhu's lila.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta (Antya 7.166, 163-164) concludes,
panditera saujanya, brahmanyata-guna
drdha prema-mudra loke karila khyapana
“Gadadhara Pandita is celebrated all over the
world for his gentle behavior, his brahminical attributes, and his steady love
for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.”
panditera bhava-mudra kahana na yaya
‘gadadhara-prana-natha’ nama haila yaya
“No one can describe the characteristics and
ecstatic love of Gadadhara Pandita. Therefore, another name for Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu is Gadadhara-prananatha, ‘the life and soul of Gadadhara Pandita.’
pandite prabhura prasada kahana na
yaya ‘gadaira gauranga’ bali’ yanre loke gaya
“No one can say how merciful the Lord is to
Gadadhara Pandita, but people know the Lord as Gadaira Gauranga, ‘the Lord
Gauranga of Gadadhara Pandita.'”
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smara gaura-gadadhara keli
kalam
bhava gaura-gadadhara paksa caram
srnu gaura-gadadhara caru katham
bhaja godruma-kanon kunja-vidhum
"Remember Gaura-Gadadhara
during the time of Their pastimes, Meditate on Gaura-Gadadhar, the Divine
couple, the par-excellence of beauty. Hear beautiful discussions on the topics
of Gaura-Gadadhara, and worship them in the forest grove of Godruma, bathed in
the light of the moon." gadadhar pandit prabhu age bosi pare bhagavat –
sudha dhale rasi rasi [B.R. 3/107] After enacting His pastimes on this
planet for forty-eight years, it was seen by witnesses that Sri Gaurasundara
entered into the body of Sri Tota-Gopinathji, who was the Deity in Puri on the
Nilachala beach served by Sri Gadadhara Pandita.By [Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura]
Sri Gadadharastakam by Srila Svarupa Damodara Goswami:
Text 1
sva-bhakti-yoga-lasinam sada vraje viharinam
hari-priya-ganagragam cacisuta-priyecvaram
saradha-krishna-sevana-prakacakam mahacayam bhajamy aham
gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned and exalted
spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu, who appears very splendid, engaged in
the Lord's devotional service. He always performs pastimes in Vraja, where he
is very prominent among the gopis, who are very dear to Lord Hari. Lord
Caitanya, the Son of Saci is the dear Lord of Gadadhara Prabhu, who is
preaching the service of Radha and krishna.
Text 2
navojjvaladi- bhavana-vidhana-karma-paragam
vicitra-gaura-bhakti-sindhu-ragga-bhagga-lasinam
suraga-marga-darsakam vrajadi-vasa-dayakam bhajamy
aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. He is expertly absorbed in meditation on the nine rasas
of devotional service, beginning with ujjvala-rasa (conjugal love), and he
dances in the waves of the amazing ocean of devotional service to Lord
Caitanya. He preaches the path of raganuga-bhakti (spontaneous devotional
service), and He is a fit person to attain residence in the transcendental land
of Vraja.
Text 3
sacisutagghri-sara-bhakta-vrnda-vandya-gauravam
gaura-bhava-citta-padma-madhya-krishna-vallabham
mukunda-gaura-rupinam svabhava-dharma-dayakam bhajamy
aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. The best of those who are devoted to the lotus feet of
Lord Caitanya, the Son of Saci-devi, offer respecful obeisances to him and
treat him with great importance, and he is very dear to Lord krishna, Who is
seated in the middle of the lotus flower which is his heart, assuming His
golden form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He preaches that Lord Mukunda has assumed
the golden form of Lord Caitanya, and he returns the living entities to their
constitutional position as servants of the Lord.
Text 4
nikunja-sevanadika-prakasanaika-karanam sada
sakhi-rati-pradam maha-rasa-svarupakam
sadacritagghri-pankajam sariri-sad-gurum varam bhajamy
aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned and exalted
spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. It is only because of him that the
truth of the exalted devotional service performed by the intimate associates of
krishna in the forests and groves of vrindavana has been revealed. He is
preaching the ecstatic love attained by the gopis, and he is indeed a
personification of the mellows of devotional service. The saintly devotees take
shelter of his lotus feet, and he teaches the truth of spiritual life to the
living entities.
Text 5
mahaprabhor maha-rasa-prakasanagkuram priyam sada
maha-rasagkura-prakacanadi-vasanam mahaprabhor
vrajagganadi-bhava-moda-karakam bhajamy aham
gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. He is very dear to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and it is
as if he had sprouted from the manifestation of the Lord`s ecstatic love. He is
always adorned with the garments of ecstatic love of Godhead, and He delights
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu by arousing in the Lord the ecstatic emotional love
experienced by the gopis of Vraja.
Text 6
dvijendra-vrnda-vandya-pada-yugma-bhakti-vardhakam
nijesu radhikatmata-vapuh-prakacanagraham
asesa-bhakti-sastra-siksayojjvalamrta-prabam bhajamy
aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu, who expands the mellows of devotional service and whose
lotus feet are worshipped by the kings of the brahmanas. Among his confidential
associates, he reveals his actual form as Srimati Radharani. He distributes the
nectar of the ecstatic mellow of the gopis conjugal love, strictly following
the instructions of all the devotional scriptures.
Text 7
muda nija-priyadika-svapada-padma-sindhubhir
maha-rasarnavamrta-pradesta-gaura-bhaktidam
sadast-sattvikanvitam nijesta-bhakti-dayakam bhajamy
aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. With delight, he is giving the devotional service of
Lord Caitanya which reveals the nectarean ocean of the most exalted mellows of
devotional service, along with the nectar flowing from the lotus feet of the
gopis, headed by Srimati Radharani, who is most dear to krishna. Gadadhara
Prabhu is decorated with the eight transcendental ecstatic symptoms of
sattvika-bhava,and he is distributing devotional service to his worshippable
Lord krishna.
Text 8
yadiya-riti-raga-ragga-bhagga-digdhamanaso naro `api
yati turnam eva narya-bhava-bhajanam tam
ujjvalakta-cittam etu citta-matta-catpado bhajamy aham
gadadharam supanditam guram prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master,
Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. Even a conditioned soul, whose mind becomes anointed by
the colorful waves of spontaneous devotional service as delineated by Srila
Gadadhara Prabhu, quickly attains the highest level of devotional service. He
becomes like a maddened bumble bee whose mind is anointed with the mellow of
ujjvala-rasa (conjugal love).
Text 9
maha-rasamrta-pradam sada gadadhara-astakam pathet tu
yah subhaktito vrajaggana-ganotsavam
saci-tanuja-pada-padma-bhakti-ratna-yogyatam labheta
radhika-gadadharagghri-padma-sevaya
"These eight verses glorifying Srila
Gadadhara Prabhu distribute the nectat of the most exalted mellow of devotional
service, and they are like a festival for the gopis of Vraja. If one regularly
reads these verses and serves the lotus feet of Srila Gadadhara Prabhu, who is
an incarnation of Srimati Radharani, then he will become qualified to attain
the jewel of pure devotional service for the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya,the
son of Sacidevi."
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shri-radha-prema-rupa ya pura vrindavandeshvari
sa shri-gadadharo gaura-vallabhah panditakhyakah
nirnitah shri-Svarupair yo vraja-lakshmitaya yatha
pura vrindavane lakshmih shyamasundara-vallabha
sadya gaura-prema-lakshmih shri-gadadhara-panditah
radham anugata yat tal lalitapy anuradhika
atah pravishad esha tam gaura-candrodaye yatha
The incarnation of love who previously was the
queen of Vrindavan, Radha, is now the beloved of Gaura named Srila Gadadhara
Pandit. Svarupa Damodar himself indicated that he was Vraja’s goddess of
fortune, the Lakshmi who was previously the beloved of Shyamasundara in
Vrindavan. She today has become the goddess of fortune of love for Gaura and is
known as Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Lalita, who is also known as Anuradha, is
Radha’s closest friend and confidante. She has also entered into Gadadhara, as
was shown in the play Chaitanya-candrodaya.
Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 147-150)
Sri Pundarika Vidyanidhi- Spiritual master of Gadadhara Pandita
Sri Tota Gopinatha. – Deities of Sri Gadadhara Pandita in Jagannatha
Puri
Tota-Gopinatha temple (Right)
Sri Gadadhara Pandita
falls unconscious after hearing Chaitanya's Instructions.
Original handwriting of Sri Gadadhara Pandiita
Bhagavad-Gita copied by Sri Gadadhara Pandita
Deity of Lord Krishna which Sri Gadadhara Pandita wore
around his neck