Thursday, 05 June 2025 [Mayapura, West Bengal, India Time]
a) Disappearance Day of Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
b) Appearance Day of Shrimati Gangamata Gosvamini
C) Ganga Puja

a) Disappearance Day of Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
SRILA PRABHUPADA: “So Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, you have seen in my Bhagavad-gītā his name: dedicated to Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, who has written the commentary on Brahma-sūtra, Govinda-bhāṣya. Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa is our ācārya. Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa is a fourth-generation ācārya from Lord Caitanya—fourth or fifth. Anyway, he is one of the ācāryas. Just like Gosvāmīs, they are ācāryas; Śrīnivās Ācārya.
So ācārya paramparā, disciplic succession. So Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa is also ācārya in this Gauḍīya-sampradāya. So his special gift… Every ācārya means he gives some special things. Previous ācārya has given, and the next ācārya gives something more. That is the symptom of ācārya. In the incarnation also, just like Lord Buddha incarnation. Then Śaṅkarācārya, then Rāmānujācārya, then Madhvācārya then, in this way Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
So every ācārya is giving a further lift. So Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa also gave a further lift to this sampradāya. What is that? Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa wrote commentary on Brahma-sūtra, Vedānta-sūtra. Vedānta-sūtra, his Vedānta-sūtra commentary is known as Govinda-bhāṣya, commentary of Govinda”
(Excerpt from Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana Appearance day Lecture on June 14, 1970, Los Angeles)

SRILA PRABHUPADA: “But sometimes back, in Jaipur, there was a challenge that “The Gauḍīya Sampradāya has no commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra.” So at that time Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura was requested… Because he was grand scholar, grand old man scholar, at that time living in Vṛndāvana… So he was very old at that time; so he authorized Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana, that “You do it.” There was no need, but people are demanding, “Where is your commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra?” So Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana, with the order of Govindaji at Jaipur, he wrote the commentary on Brahma-sūtra. That name is Govinda-bhāṣya. So the Gauḍīya-Brahmā Sampradāya, they have got also commentary on Brahma-sūtra. That is required.”
(Excerpt from Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 13.8-12 — Bombay, September 30, 1973)

SRILA PRABHUPADA: “Govinda-bhāṣya commentary on Vedānta-sūtra available, this is in Sanskrit. But we are describing the same conclusion in our different books. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also the same conclusion is there. You don’t require to read separately, but because the smārta-brāhmaṇas challenged that “You are not Vaidic because you have no commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra,” so this Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana gave us the Govinda-bhāṣya.
Of course, other Vaiṣṇava ācāryas like Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, they have given commentary on Bhagavad-gītā. But we Madhva-Gauḍīya sampradāya, we are benedicted by this Baladeva Ācārya prabhu. And his life is that he…, he was…, he appeared in the family of a vaiśya community. His forefathers were agriculturists, but he became a great devotee and great scholar in Sanskrit, and he has got his commentaries on Bhagavad-gītā and Vedānta bhāṣya, and he has written many other books, all in Sanskrit.
So his birthday, appearance day, is today. So it is our duty to commemorate the memory, I mean to say, activities of the ācāryas and offer our respect and ask from them benediction for our progress. That is the system. Therefore we have listed the appearance and disappearance of the ācāryas. We should take advantage of these auspicious dates and offer our respect to the ācāryas.”
(Excerpt from Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana Appearance day Lecture on June 14, 1970, Los Angeles)

b) Appearance Day of Shrimati Gangamata Gosvamini
“Śrī Ananta Ācārya is one of the eternal associates of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Previously, during the advent of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Ananta Ācārya was Sudevī, one of the eight gopīs. This is stated in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, verse 165, as follows: anantācārya-gosvāmī yā sudevī purā vraje. “Ananta Ācārya Gosvāmī was formerly Sudevī–gopī in Vraja [Vṛndāvana].”
In Jagannātha Purī, or Puruṣottama–kṣetra, there is a monastery known as Gaṅgā–mātā Maṭha that was established by Ananta Ācārya. In the disciplic succession of the Gaṅgā–mātā Maṭha, he is known as Vinoda–mañjarī. One of his disciples was Haridāsa Paṇḍita Gosvāmī, who is also known as Śrī Raghu Gopāla and as Śrī Rāsa–mañjarī. His disciple Lakṣmīpriyā was the maternal aunt of Gaṅgā–mātā, a princess who was the daughter of the King of Puṭiyā. Gaṅgā–mātā brought a Deity of the name Śrī Rasika–rāya from Kṛṣṇa Miśra of Jaipur and installed Him in the house of Sārvabhauma in Jagannātha Purī.
The disciple in the fifth generation after Śrī Ananta Ācārya was Śrī Vanamālī; in the sixth generation, Śrī Bhagavān dāsa, who was a Bengali; in the seventh generation, Madhusūdana dāsa, who was an Oriyā; in the eighth generation, Nīlāmbara dāsa; in the ninth generation, Śrī Narottama dāsa; in the tenth generation, Pītāmbara dāsa; and in the eleventh generation, Śrī Mādhava dāsa. The disciple in the twelfth generation is presently in charge of the Gaṅgā–mātā monastery.
(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 8.60, Purport | 1973 Edition)

C) Ganga Puja
This is literally the “descent of mother Ganges – Ganga Ma”. Throughout india this festival lasts ten days beginning on the Amavasya (dark moon night) and going through to the dasami tithi (tenth phase of the Moon, the day before Pandava Nirjal Ekadasi)
“Festivals connected with rivers are essentially bathing festivals. Ganga Dussehra is celebrated on the tenth day of Jyeshtha. River Ganga is worshipped as a mother as well as a Goddess, particularly by people of Uttara Pradesh, Bihar, and Bengal through which the river flows.
To know more about the sacred descent of Mother Ganges, Read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto 5, Chapter 17 :The Descent of the River Ganges