{"id":3535,"date":"2011-03-24T20:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2011-03-24T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:48:43","slug":"a-brief-introduction-to-the-revered-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/sri-bishnupriya-in-gambheera\/a-brief-introduction-to-the-revered-author\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief introduction to the revered author"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radhe Radhe ! <\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s take a break here and learn\u00a0 little bit about the\u00a0author\u00a0 who was a Vaishnav saint.\u00a0 His name was sri Haridas Goswami. <\/span><\/p>\n

The most munificent Baby Gour\u0101nga had given s\u0101ksh\u0101t-darshan of his Gop\u0101l-form to the \u2018tairthik<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a>-Brahmin\u2019.\u00a0 All Gour-devotees know about this loving incident. Well, this Brahmin was named Satyabh\u0101nu Up\u0101dhy\u0101y.\u00a0 Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi was a descendent of the same Satyabh\u0101nu Up\u0101dhy\u0101y.\u00a0 Sri Up\u0101dhy\u0101y had been his eleventh ancestor. Sri Gour\u0101nga had ordered Satyabh\u0101nuji to give up pilgrimages, become a householder, and settle in Sridh\u0101m Nabadweep.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Harid\u0101sji was born in the year 1967 in Dog\u0101chhiy\u0101 village. According to his zodiac sign, he was given two names \u2013 \u2018Neelmani\u2019 and \u2018Nrihari\u2019<\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a>. However he became popularly known as \u2018Harid\u0101s\u2019.\u00a0 His mother was Ambik\u0101 Devi and his father\u2019s name was Sri Sit\u0101n\u0101th Gosw\u0101mi. Sri Sit\u0101n\u0101th Gosw\u0101mi was a supreme devotee. He was very much learned in the Bhakti-sh\u0101stras and an incomparable Bh\u0101gavatam kath\u0101k\u0101r<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The couple led a poverty-stricken life. Nevertheless they were contented.<\/span><\/p>\n

His father wanted Harid\u0101sji to become a Sanskrit scholar and give discourses on Srimad Bh\u0101gavatam. But mother Ambik\u0101 Devi, who knew by now, that it was not a lucrative profession, disagreed. She wished him to study languages such as English and Bengali that would land him a good Government job. As a result he got degrees in these languages. As it is he was meritorious. Therefore he joined various libraries and became a voracious reader. He studied numerous educative books along with the text books prescribed for his curriculum. \u00a0Harid\u0101sji was extremely hard-working and perseverant.\u00a0 He started working in the Indian Post Office as an unsalaried novice, but very soon he gained promotions and his salary went up to Rs 500 which was a princely sum in those days. At the time of retirement he had ascended to the post of the Head of the department.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harid\u0101sji had got married at the age of twenty or twenty-one. His wife Leel\u0101vati Devi was the daughter of pandit of Shantipur, Sri Grahapati Bhattach\u0101rya who did not come from a well to do family. The couple spent their life through a lot of difficulties and often had to face lack of money. However like true Bh\u0101gavats they accepted their problem-ridden life with grace and rather felt it was the Lord\u2019s mercy on them. As a result, they never forgot the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harid\u0101sji was a true saint.\u00a0 Once his father and brother had departed from this world renunciation overcame him and he moved more and more towards Sri Hari-Bhakti.\u00a0 By divine arrangement his son-in-law died, and after he witnessed his daughter\u2019s widowhood, he transformed into a full-fledged Vaishnav s\u0101dhak.\u00a0 He became steadfast in daily Th\u0101kur-seva, N\u0101m-smaran and Sankirtan. He became so steadfast in his devotional practice, and he immersed himself so much in meditation that even in his office he became renowned as a \u2018saint\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Basanta Kumar Dey, or \u2018Basanta-da\u2019 as he was more lovingly called, lived in Trishanagar of Tripura.\u00a0 He was famous amongst the Vaishnavs of Bengal due to his exclusive devotional service to Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101.\u00a0 Mah\u0101tma Shishir Kumar Dey had special mercy on him. Once in the village of Narasimhadi, a wonderful program was arranged in the house of Sri Haricharan \u0100ch\u0101rya on the occasion of \u201cPhool-dol\u201d.\u00a0 Sri Basanta dada had participated in this program. Along with him there were other stalwart Gour-devotees such as Sri Nrityagopal Gosw\u0101mip\u0101d and Sri Kishor\u0101nanda. \u00a0The respected author too had participated in this holy function. \u00a0The service and N\u0101m-sankirtan of Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 manifested<\/span>[4]<\/span><\/a> themselves here.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first the Deities of Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 were installed in Sri Haricharan \u0100ch\u0101rya\u2019s house. Then they were served very nicely. Last of all, there was tumultuous N\u0101m-sankirtan. This led to the installment and sev\u0101 of Gour-Yugal deities in many other places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi was steadfast in his devotion to Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 from before. Now he wrote all the more on this topic. He used to send his articles to many magazines and journal for publication. Once When Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi had visited Ekachakra, Lord Nity\u0101nanda gave him darshan and blessed him.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the auspicious occasion of Gour-Purnim\u0101 in the year 1926, he started the monthly magazine \u201cSri Bishnupriy\u0101 \u2013 Gour\u0101nga. By then he had already retired from his job. \u00a0He had published a few books serially in that magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The books authored by Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi are as follows \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Sri Gour\u0101nga-mah\u0101bh\u0101rat<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Sri Bishnupriy\u0101 \u2013charit<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Sri Laxmipriy\u0101-charit<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Sri Bishnupriy\u0101 \u2013drama<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Sri Gour-geetik\u0101<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Sri Gour\u0101nga \u2013 the Lord of the Bengalis<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Lamentation of Sri Bishnupriy\u0101 <\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 \u00a0Ashtak\u0101liya Leel\u0101 meditation<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Thousand Names of Sri Bishnupriy\u0101 <\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The divine pastimes of Gour-Nitai deities installed by Mur\u0101ri Gupta<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The life and work of ancient poet Sri Dwija Balar\u0101m d\u0101s<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Gajapati Prat\u0101prudra (drama)<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Sri J\u0101hnab\u0101-charit<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Siddha Sri Chaitanya d\u0101s B\u0101b\u0101ji Mah\u0101r\u0101j<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Siddha Sri Bamshid\u0101s B\u0101b\u0101ji Mah\u0101r\u0101j<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Two Hundred Instructions<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Vaishnav-vandan\u0101<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. The glory of Sri Nit\u0101i-Gour-n\u0101m<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. The lamentation of Mother Shachi<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Srimad Bishwarup-charit<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Sri Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s Shiksh\u0101shtakam<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Hundred verses on Sri S\u0101rvabhouma<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 tattva-sandarbha<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Pocket-size Sri Chaitanya-Chandramrita<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Vedanta-Syamantak<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. A hundred verses on foolishness<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. Sri Bishnupriy\u0101 in Gambheer\u0101<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Some of these books have been translated into Hindi.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sri Gosw\u0101mip\u0101d was a huge scholar and supremely singularly devoted to the worship of Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101. He was not only a supreme devotee, but also a true social worker. Right from the start of his Government career he wrote poignantly against the superstitions and wrong traditions\/customs existing in the society. Through his writings He would draw everyone\u2019s attention towards the deterioration of humanity, and inspire others to serve the humankind. He not only wrote but set examples by his own conduct. He established a dispensary in Nabadweep that gave free treatment to all.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Wherever he went, he busted hypocritical religious leaders. He carried out revolts against Buddhist tantric and the womanizing Sahajiy\u0101s. He was always at the forefront in preaching unadulterated devotion. There were so many Vedic Brahmins who belonged to the Gosw\u0101mi families, yet they ate meat and fish. Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi strongly opposed these Gosw\u0101mis and established pure Vaishnavism. He truly preached as well as practiced the highest Vaishnav ideals. He built a Dharmash\u0101l\u0101 in Pushkar, Rajasthan. \u00a0He established the \u201cLeel\u0101vati Bhaktishastrapeeth\u201d in Nabadweep in the memory of his devout wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi constructed the temple in Sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriy\u0101 kunj that is worth seeing. His daughter Srimati Susheela-sundari Devi was the perfect example of his idealistic life. She was a natural poetess and her life was replete with devotional worship. Social work, Vaishnavi-humility, and service to Vaishnav-literature were her priorities. \u00a0She always strove to publish and preach the books written by Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mip\u0101d.<\/span><\/p>\n

    After leading an ideal Vaishnav life, the most respected author departed for the eternal abode of Sri Gour\u0101nga at the age of seventy eight in the month of Poush, year 1946. His devout wife had already left for the eternal Gour-Dh\u0101m two years ago in the month of Poush in the year 1944. We can read his biography in detail from the book \u201cPrabhup\u0101d Sri Harid\u0101s Gosw\u0101mi\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n


    \n\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

    [1]<\/span><\/a> A Brahmin who continuously travelled to holy places<\/span><\/p>\n

    [2]<\/span><\/a> Even today, in India the names of babies are decided by astrogers according to their zodiac sign.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [3]<\/span><\/a> One who gives discourses on Srimad Bhaagavatam<\/span><\/p>\n

    [4]<\/span><\/a> This means that the devotees worshipped the Deities of sri Sri Gour-Bishnupriyaa \u00a0and sang Their Holy names. However since devotees do not have the power to perform such lofty activities\u00a0 on their own, we say that these auspicious activities manifested themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Radhe Radhe ! Let’s take a break here and learn\u00a0 little bit about the\u00a0author\u00a0 who was a Vaishnav saint.\u00a0 His name was sri Haridas Goswami. The most munificent Baby Gour\u0101nga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[285,367,13,364,266],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-bishnupriya-in-gambheera","tag-bishnupriya","tag-gaambheera","tag-gouranga","tag-gourprem","tag-gourpurnima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}