Tuesday, 06 May 2025 [Mayapura, West Bengal, India Time]
- Appearance Day of Srimati Sītā-devī
- Appearance Day of Srimati Jāhnavā-mātā
- Disappearance Day of Śrī Madhu Paṇḍita Goswami
1)Appearance Day of Srimati Sītā-devī
“Sītā-devī is the origin of all potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Cit-śakti. Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has got many potencies, multipotencies, and one of the potency is hlādinī-śakti, pleasure potency. That pleasure potency is Sītā, Rādhārāṇī, Lakṣmī-devī. This has been described by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī-śaktir asmād ekātmānāv api deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau (CC Adi 1.5). These are described, that the Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure potency, Rādhārāṇī, is Kṛṣṇa. But to take pleasure They became two. Ekātmānāv api deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau. They became divided into two: Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Again, Śrī Caitanya, prakaṭam. When Kṛṣṇa came as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combined together. Therefore the devotees of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they worship śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya, they say. This is a fact. So Lord Rāmacandra is also Kṛṣṇa. Sītā-devī is also expansion of Rādhārāṇī. They are the same tattva.”
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Vrindavan, October 3, 1976)
“Mother Sītā was very submissive, faithful, shy and chaste, always understanding the attitude of her husband. Thus by her character and her love and service she completely attracted the mind of the Lord.”
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.10.55 | 1975 Edition)
Srila Prabhupada: “As Lord Rāmacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patnī-vrata), mother Sītā is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ: whatever example a great man sets, common people follow. If the kings, the leaders, and the brāhmaṇas, the teachers, would set forth the examples we receive from Vedic literature, the entire world would be heaven; indeed, there would no longer be hellish conditions within this material world.”
(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.10.55, Purport | 1977 Edition)
2) Appearance Day of Srimati Jāhnavā-mātā
নিত্যানন্দের গণ যত,—সব ব্রজসখা ।
শৃঙ্গ–বেত্র–গোপবেশ, শিরে শিখিপাখা ॥ ২১ ॥
nityānandera gaṇa yata–saba vraja-sakhā
śṛṅga-vetra-gopaveśa, śire śikhi-pākhā
SYNONYMS
nityānandera—of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu; gaṇa—followers; yata—all; saba—all; vraja-sakhā—residents of Vṛndāvana; śṛṅga—horn; vetra—cane stick; gopa-veśa—dressed like a cowherd boy; śire—on the head; śikhi-pākhā—the plume of a peacock.
TRANSLATION
All the associates of Lord Nityānanda were formerly cowherd boys in Vrajabhūmi. Their symbolic representations were the horns and sticks they carried, their cowherd dress and the peacock plumes on their heads.
PURPORT
Jāhnavā-mātā is also within the list of Lord Nityānanda’s followers. She is described in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, verse 66, as Anaṅga-mañjarī of Vṛndāvana. All the devotees who are followers of Jāhnavā-mātā are counted within the list of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu’s devotees.
(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 11.21 | 1973 Edition)
“In the Bhakti-ratnākara Chapter Twelfth, it is stated that a few miles from Navadvīpa is a place called Śāligrāma that was the residence of Sūryadāsa Sarakhela. He was employed as a secretary of the Mohammedan government of that time, and thus he amassed a good fortune. Sūryadāsa had four brothers, all of whom were pure Vaiṣṇavas. Vasudhā and Jāhnavā were two daughters of Sūryadāsa Sarakhela.”
(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta » Ādi-līlā 11.25, Purport | 1973 Edition)
3) Disappearance Day of Śrī Madhu Paṇḍita Goswami
Madhu Pandita Goswami, a disciple of Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita, established the temple of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Gopīnatha in Vṛndāvana, India. Before Śrīnivāsa Ācārya, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, and Śyāmānanda Prabhu went to bring the books of the Gosvāmīs from Vṛndāvana to Bengal, Madhu Paṇḍita Goswāmī blessed Śrīnivāsa Ācārya by giving him a garland from the Śrī Gopīnatha Deity.
The Gopīnatha Deity was originally installed by Vajranābha, the grandson of Lord Kṛṣṇa, 5,000 years ago. The Deity was rediscovered at Vaṁśī-vaṭa by Paramānanda Bhaṭṭācārya, who then entrusted the Deity to Madhu Paṇḍita. In 1670, the original temple was desecrated by the soldiers of Aurangzeb, and a new temple was subsequently constructed just behind the old one. The original Gopīnatha Deity was sent to Jaipur for safekeeping, where He remains today. The current Deity in the Vṛndāvana temple is a pratibhu-mūrti (replica), which is considered non-different from the original Deity.
