Radha-ramana caran das Babaji...incarnation of Nityananda Prabhu?!

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami maharaja,

please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to ISKCON founder-acarya

Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your tireless service and pure, unalloyed

devotion.

I had a quick question in regards to Radha-Ramana caran das Babaji. He is

of course, as you know, the one who began the famous chant of "Jaya Nitai

Gaura Radhe-Syama, Japa Hare Krsna Hare Rama". I had read in one book, the

"Saints of Bengal", that at the end of his life he gave some allusion to the

idea that he was Ananga-manjari(Balarama/Nityananda in the madhurya-rasa or as

some say, Jahnavi devi, the internal potency of Sri Nityananda Prabhu). I

don't mean to cause any offense to the author of that book, but I am simply

confused on this point: he mentions in his notes for that chapter that just as

Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave evidence in the Caitanya-Bhagavata that He would

return in other incarnations, so it is fully possible that Nityananda Prabhu

could also return again and he seems to support the notion that Radha-ramana

caran das Babaji was an incarnation of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. But I have read

in the biography of Bhakti-siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur that he opposed this

Radha-ramana caran das Babaji and called him out as a sahajiya and because of

this the Thakur was not very much appreciated in Jagannatha Puri.

Have you heard anything of this before? Please be kind and merciful and

bless me with your insights on this issue.

 

your aspiring servant,

jayadeva dasa