The Story of RADHA GOKULANANDA TEMPLE VRINDAVAN; Most Important Places in Vrindavan

This video is about Radha Radha Gokulananda templeHistory, the Story of Radha Gokulananda temple, covered in the video series of Important famous temples of vrindavan, Best temples to visit in vrindavan, and Important places in vrindavan, RADHA GOKULANANDA TEMPLE Hare Krishna This video is about Radha Gokulananda temple, which is located between Kesi Ghat and Radha-Raman temple in Vrindavan. Here we get an opportunity to take blessings from many samadhis of exalted devotees of Lord Krishna and deities installed and worshipped by them. In this temple there are the small Radha-Vinoda Deities of Lokanatha Gosvami, the larger Deities of Vijaya Govinda belonging to Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana and Radha Gokulananda Deities of Shri Viswanath Cakravarti. The small Deity of Krishna in front of Gokulananda and the Deity of Caitanya Mahaprabhu were worshiped by Sri Narottama Dasa Thakur. Formerly, all the Deities in this temple were worshiped alone in their own separate temples. When the old temple of Radha Vinoda Deities fell apart, Viswanath Cakravarti arranged to have this temple built keeping all deities together. Now, let me take opportunity to introduce these great Acharyas who mercifully made it possible for us to get such divine experience today. ----- Srila Lokanatha Gosvami. He was a contemporary of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When Sri Chaitanya took sannyasa, Lokanatha came to Vrindavan on His order and was engaged in finding the lost places of Krishna’s pastimes in Braj. While touring in the village of Umaraa in the forest called Chatravana, Lokanatha Gosvami discovered the Deity of Radha-Vinoda. The Deity of Radha-Vinoda was exactly revealed to him at Kishori Kunda. Lokanatha Gosvami used to carry this Deity in a bag hanging from his neck while touring throughout Braj, serving his Lord with whatever simply possible. Lokanatha Goswami’s original Deities of Radha-Vinoda are now worshiped in Jaipur, Rajasthan. A prati-bhu murti (Replica of the original Deity) of Radha-Vinoda adorns the altar at the Radha-Gokulananda Temple in Vrindavan. Srila Lokanath Goswami in his original identity, serves Shrimati Radharani as Manjuali-manjari in nitya Vrindavan lila. Once Lokanatha Goswami had told Lord Caitanya that he did not want to take any disciples. In reply, Lord Caitanya told him that he should take just one disciple and that he would be sent personally. That most fortunate disciple was Sri Narottama Das Thakura. ----- Narottam Das Thakura. He was born in 15th century as son of a Zamindar, in Rajshahi District (at present located in Bangladesh). In school, Narottama Thakur was a sruti dhara (that means, he was able to memorize whatever he hears just once). Although he quickly mastered Sanskrit and the Vedas, he hankered to serve Krishna and remained a brahmachari for entire life. When Narottama dasa came to Vrindavan, he was attracted to be initiated by Lokanatha Gosvami, as desired by Lord Chaitanya. Lokanatha Goswami refused the repeated requests of Narottama to be initiated. Not ready to give up, Narottama acted as Lokanatha Gosvami’s menial servant. Every night, Narottama dasa cleaned and swept the place of morning duties of Lokanatha, without his knowledge. Finally pleased with Narottama, Lokanath Goswami accepted him as his only disciple. Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura wrote many devotional songs about the spiritual master, the Devotees, devotional service, the six Goswamis, Gaura-Nityananda and Radha-Krishna. Although composed with sweet melodies in simple Bengali language, Narottama Dasa's songs give shastric siddhanta and devotional inspiration. Srila Prabhupada often sang these bhajanas. Considering them non-different from Vedic shastra, He quoted them in his Bhagavatam lectures. Some of the daily aratis sang in ISKCON temples are written by Srila Narottam Das Thakura. Narottama Das Thakur in his original identity was Champaka Manjari in Krishna-lila, eternally assisting Rupa Manjari in her service to Radha and Krishna. ----- ---------------------- Music Credits : -Akshay Chowdhary Official website www.akshaychowdhry.com #StoryofRADHAGOKULANANDA #Radharani #RadhaDamodar #RADHAGOKULANANDATEMPLEHistory #BestPlacesinvrindavan #VrindavanDham #Radhakrishna #krishna #radha #lordkrishna #Vrindavan