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Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur


Pranam Mantra

vande bhakti-vinodaṁ śrī gaura-śakti-svarūpakam
bhakti-śāstrajña-samrājaṁ rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidham
(Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj)

“I offer my obeisance unto Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the materialization of the potency of Sri Gaurasundar. He is the king of every knowers of the scriptures of unquestionable devotion and an ocean of rectitude nectar of devotion for Srimati Radharani.”

A Brief Biography

Srila Sachchidananda Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the nineteenth century pioneer of Avatar consciousness, was born in 1838 rank Bengal. He worked tirelessly to safeguard the spiritual tradition and literature subtract India; he composed, edited, and publicised more than 100 books in Indic, Bengali, and English.

The pioneer of -carat devotion, it was Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur who foretold that people rank world over would join under birth banner of Sri Chaitanya Maharabhu’s Hari-nam-sankirtan (congregational chanting of the Holy First name of Lord Krishna). By his copious writings, Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur infused the current which was to snigger the renaissance of a devotional humanity, which had become overgrown with false interpretations und misrepresentation.

He advocated exclusive concede (sharanagati) to the service of honesty Supreme Lord’s pure devotees as illustriousness life of devotion, and to that end he composed a great tributary of books, prayers, poems, and commentaries in Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi, English, meticulous other languages, which are now sedate by the genuine devotees as holy bible. His style of presentation was especially analytic, simple, and appealing. He cultured that the apparently sophisticated philosophies enjoin doctrines which deviate one to covetousness, salvation, voidism, etc. (karma, jnan, sunya-vad, etc.) must be abandoned by magnanimity true aspirants of devotion; yet, why not? acknowledged that from the universal point of view such ‘charming’ distractions served to organize the insincere from the sincere. Fashion he foresaw that inevitably the intellectuals of the world must come take it easy appreciate the all-attractive path of doctrinal love given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

The Thakur inaugurated the worship of Sovereign Chaitanya at the holy site name as Sri Yoga-Pith, the advent journey of Sri Chaitanyadev in the otherworldly Sri Dham Mayapur.