Friday
Friday, 13 August 2027
Dvādaśī, Gaura (bright) pakṣa Śrāvaṇa (Śrīdhara) māsa Nakṣatra: Mūla
5 songs to sing today
Disappearance day of Srila Rupa Gosvami
Foremost of the Six Gosvamis of Vrindavana, Architect of the Science of Devotional Rasa
- Departed
- Traditionally 1564, Shravana Shukla Dvadashi
- Place
- Seva-kunja, Radha-Damodara temple, Vrindavana
In his last years Rupa Gosvami lived much as he had lived for most of his adult life. He kept almost the same pace of chanting, writing and begging for his meals as when he first arrived in Vraja decades earlier. His bhajana-kutir, and later his samadhi, lie within Seva-kunja, in the courtyard of the Radha-Damodara temple in Vrindavana. The founding of that temple is closely connected with the community of Gosvamis that Rupa had helped to establish.
Disappearance day of Srila Gauridasa Pandit
Householder Devotee Who Installed the Gaura-Nitai Deities of Ambika Kalna
- Departed
- Shukla Ekadashi, Shravana (year not recorded)
- Place
- Ambika Kalna by long-standing local tradition; one biographical source instead places his final bhajana and samadhi at Dhira Samira, Vrindavana
Sources agree on the season of Gauridasa Pandit's disappearance. But they disagree, in small but real ways, on almost everything else about it. We report these differences openly here, instead of smoothing them over.
Songs to sing
- Sri Rupa PranamaSrila Rupa Gosvami
- Sri Rupa Manjari Pada Sei Mora SampadaNarottama Dasa Thakura · Srila Rupa Gosvami
- Krsnotkirtana Gana NartanaSrinivasa Acarya · Srila Rupa Gosvami
- Krsna Deva Bhavantam VandeRupa Goswami · Srila Rupa Gosvami
- Radhe Jaya Jaya Madhava DayiteRupa Goswami · Srila Rupa Gosvami
Dates and fasting times follow the ISKCON Vaiṣṇava calendar (GCal) for Vrindavan. Times in your town can differ by a few minutes.