Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami (Disappearance day 25th jily 05)

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Hare Krishna,

 

Dear devotees,

 

PAMHO,AGTSGM AGTSP

 

 

 

Kindly glorifiy the pastimes of Srlia Gopal Bhatt

Goswami on his disappearence day

 

 

 

Your humble servant

radhabhava gaur das

 

 

 

 

Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami

 

 

 

Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami (the son of a Vyenkata

Bhatta, a Sri Vaisnava brahmana) appeared in Sri

Rangam, South India. Lord Caitanya once stayed four

months in his home, and converted the family to

Gaudiya Vaisnavism A mere boy at this time, Gopala

personally served the Lord. Sri Caitanya treated him

affectionately giving His remnants and blessings to

become as acarya.

 

 

 

During His four month stay, Lord Caitanya developed a

close friendship with Vyenkata Bhatta, which Krishna

Dasa Kaviraja describes as "sakhya rasa." Freely

conversing with each other, they would often laugh and

joke together. One day in a humorous mood Lord

Caitanya asked Vyenkata:

 

 

 

"Why does your worship able goddess of fortune, Sri

Laksmidevi, abandon the happiness of Vaikuntha and her

service to her Lord Narayana? Why does she go to

Vrndavana and perform severe austerities to attain the

association of My Lord Gopala, the cowherd boy of

Vraja?"

 

 

 

"I can't understand these mysteries," said Vyenkata,

"but You, being the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Himself, can surely enlighten me."

 

 

 

"Lord Krishna has one unique quality," said Lord

Gauranga, " He attracts the hearts of everyone with

His personal conjugal love (madhurya). Lord Narayan

only has sixty transcendental qualities but Sri

Krishna has sixty-four. And all of them are saturated

with His unique quality of madhurya (honey sweetness).

The Supreme personality of Godhead, Sir Krishna,

attracts the mind of Laksmidevi. But Lord Narayana can

never attract the minds of the Vraja gopis.

 

 

 

"In Vraja lila, Krishna, disguised as Lord Narayana,

once appeared before the gopis who were searching for

Krishna, Seeing Lord Narayana the gopis said, "O Lord

Narayana, pranams. Where did Krishna go, did You

see?" By following the gopis, who spontaneously love

Krishna. The Srutis worshiped Krishna in the ecstasy

of the gopis. Following in their footsteps, they

received gopi's bodies to join Krishna in the rasa

dance. Laksmi, however, wanted to enjoy Krishna but

retain Her spiritual form as Laksmidevi. Without

following the gopis, footsteps no one can attain

Krishna."

 

 

 

After receiving initiation from Sri Prabodhananda

Sarasvati, Gopala Bhatta cam to Vrndavana and became a

dear friend of Sri Rupa and Sanatana Gosvamis. He did

bhajana in Vrndavana for forty-five years, mostly at

Radha-kunda.

 

 

 

On pilgrimage he obtained twelve Salagrama silas.

Later the Damodara sila manifested Himself as the

beautiful Radha Ramana Deity. Since 1542, Radha

Ramanaji has been worshipped with pure devotion

following precise sastric rituals.

 

 

 

Lord Caitanya ordered Gopala Bhatta to write a book to

check the spread of pseudo-loving rasas and negligence

to vaidhi bhakti. In corroboration with Sri Sanatana

Gosvami he compiled the Hari.bhakti-vilasa, the

authorized book explaining the ritual and devotional

practices of the Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya. He also

wrote Sat-kriya-dipika and the outline for Sri Jiva

Gosvami,s Sat Sandarbhas. He eternally serves Srimati

Radharani as one of Her asta manjaris, Guna-manjari.

His samadhi is within Radha Ramanaji's temple compound

behind the appearance place of the Deity. Sri Gopala

Bhatta Gosvami initiated Gopinatha (Pujari Gosvami), a

lifelong brahmacari who served Radha Ramanaji for his

whole life. Gopala Bhatta Gosvami initiated

Srinivasa Acarya and many other stalwart Vaisnavas.

 

 

 

 

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