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Saturday, 6 November 2027
Aṣṭamī, Gaura (bright) pakṣa Kārtika (Dāmodara) māsa · Gaurābda 541 Nakṣatra: Śravaṇa
7 songs to sing todayGopāṣṭamī
The day Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma first went out to herd the cows. Songs of Gopāla, the cowherd boy.
Disappearance day of Sri Gadadhara Dasa Goswami
Companion of Mahaprabhu, Chief Preacher Under Nityananda Prabhu
- Departed
- Kartika-shukla-ashtami (year not recorded)
- Place
- Endiyadaha-grama, Bengal
In time, Nityananda Prabhu's sankirtana campaign in Bengal settled into a quieter, more established stage. Gadadhara Dasa's own life changed in a similar way. He moved from the road to a fixed home, and from active preaching to founding temples that would outlast him by centuries.
Disappearance day of Srila Dhananjaya Pandit
Renounced Servant of Nityananda Prabhu at Sitalagrama
- Departed
- Shukla-ashtami (the bright eighth) of the month of Kartik; year not recorded
- Place
- Sitalagrama (Shitala-grama), Mangalkota, Burdwan district, Bengal
Nityananda Prabhu's renounced servant, named among his "branches" in Chaitanya-charitamrita and identified with Krishna's cowherd friend Vasudama; his Deities are still worshiped at Sitalagrama.
Disappearance day of Srila Srinivasa Acharya
The Acharya Who Carried the Goswamis' Scriptures to Bengal
- Departed
- Not recorded by tradition
- Place
- Not recorded by tradition
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own biographers chose not to describe how He disappeared from this world. They treated the details as too sacred, or too painful, to write down. Srinivasa Acharya's own followers appear to have made a similar choice. His two closest friends and fellow preachers left at least some small traditions about their last days.
Songs to sing
- 1 Rāma Kṛṣṇa Go Caraṇe Jaibena Dūra BaneBhaktivinoda Thakura
- 2 Sri GopaladevastakaVisvanatha Cakravarti Thakura
- 3 Jaya Jaśodā Nandana Kṛṣṇa Gopāla GobindaBhaktivinoda Thakura
- He Govinda He Gopal Kesava MadhavaJayadeva Goswami
- Yasomati NandanaBhaktivinoda Thakura
- 6 Gopala Raja StotraRaghunatha Dasa Goswami
- Krsnotkirtana Gana NartanaSrinivasa Acarya · Srila Srinivasa Acharya
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