Sri Gadadhara Pandita, one of the members of the Panca Tattva, appeared on amavasya day of Vaishaka month, which this year , falls on 6th May. At Sri Mayapur, this festival is celebrated with special darshan of Gadadhara Pandita, lecture on his glories and at noon, there will be abhisheka ceremony and Maha arti will take place. Devotees visit Gadadhara bhavan, located at Srivas Angan to pray to Gadadhara Pandita and visit Chamapahatti where 500 yr ancient Sri Gaura-Gadadhara deities are worshipped.
Sri Kavi Karnapura states in Gaura Ganodessa Dipika that in Vraja lila Gadadhara Pandit is the daughter of King Vrsabhanu-Srimati Radharani. Gadadhara Pandit served as Lord Gaura’s chief assistant during His Navadvipa lila. Sri-Sri Radha Krishna in Vrndavana appear as Gaura-Gadadhara to perform pastimes in Navadvipa in the forest groves beside the Ganges
The incarnation of love who previously was the queen of Vrindavan, Radha, is now the beloved of Gaura named Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Svarupa Damodar himself indicated that he was Vraja’s goddess of fortune, the Lakshmi who was previously the beloved of Shyamasundara in Vrindavan. She today has become the goddess of fortune of love for Gaura and is known as Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Lalita, who is also known as Anuradha, is Radha’s closest friend and confidante. She has also entered into Gadadhara, as was shown in the play Chaitanya-candrodaya.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 147-150)
Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika
“No one can describe the characteristics and ecstatic love of Gadadhara Pandit. Therefore another name for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Gadadhara Prananatha, “the life and soul of Gadahara Pandit.” (Caitanya-caritamrta)
Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written:
smara gaura gadadhara kelikalam
bhava gaura gadadhara paksacaram
srnu gaura gadadhara carukatham
bhaja godruma-kanana kunjavidhum
Remember the wonderful pastimes of Gaura and Gadadhara. Become a servant of Gaura and Gadadhara. Listen to the beautiful narrations concerning Gaura and Gadadhara, and worship Lord Gaura, the beautiful moon of the groves of Godruma.
Sri Gadadhara Pandita is Sri Radha and helps Lord Caitanya who is Krsna Himself to appreciate the love of Sri Radha.Lord Gauranga is in the mood of Sri Radha and this is the most confidential reason for His descend to relish this love that He eternally relishes in Goloka Vrindavana.
Following is prayers to Sri Gadadhara Prabhu, known as Gadadhara astakam ,composed by Srila Svarupa Damodara Goswami:
Text1:
sva-bhakti-yoga-lasinam sada vraje viharinam
hari-priya-ganagragam cacisuta-priyecvaram
sadha-krsna-sevana-prakasakam mahasayam
bhajamy aham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned and exalted spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara
Prabhu, who appears very splendid, engaged in the Lord’s devotional service.
He always performs pastimes in Vraja, where he is very prominent among the
gopis, who are very dear to Lord Hari. Lord Caitanya, the Son of Saci is the
dear Lord of Gadadhara Prabhu, who is preaching the service of Radha and
Krsna.
Text 2
navojjvaladi- bhavana-vidhana-karma-paragam
vicitra-gaura-bhakti-sindhu-ragga-bhagga-lasinam
suraga-marga-darsakam vrajadi-vasa-dayakam
bhajamyaham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. He
is expertly absorbed in meditation on the nine rasas of devotional service,
beginning with ujjvala-rasa (conjugal love), and he dances in the waves of
the amazing ocean of devotional service to Lord Caitanya. He preaches the
path of raganuga-bhakti (spontaneous devotional service), and He is a fit
person to attain residence in the transcendental land of Vraja.
Text 3
sacisutagghri-sara-bhakta-vrnda-vandya-gauravam
gaura-bhava-citta-padma-madhya-krsna-vallabham
mukunda-gaura-rupinam svabhava-dharma-dayakam
bhajamyaham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. The
best of those who are devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya, the Son of
Saci-devi, offer respecful obeisances to him and treat him with great
importance, and he is very dear to Lord Krsna, Who is seated in the middle
of the lotus flower which is his heart, assuming His golden form of Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. He preaches that Lord Mukunda has assumed the golden form of
Lord Caitanya, and he returns the living entities to their constitutional
position as servants of the Lord.
Text 4
nikunja-sevanadika-prakasanaika-karanam sada
sakhi-rati-pradam maha-rasa-svarupakam
sadacritagghri-pankajam sariri-sad-gurum varam
bhajamyaham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned and exalted spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara
Prabhu. It is only because of him that the truth of the exalted devotional
service performed by the intimate associates of Krsna in the forests and
groves of Vrndavana has been revealed. He is preaching the ecstatic love
attained by the gopis, and he is indeed a personification of the mellows of
devotional service. The saintly devotees take shelter of his lotus feet, and
he teaches the truth of spiritual life to the living entities.
Text 5
mahaprabhor maha-rasa-prakasanagkuram priyam sada
maha-rasagkura-prakasanadi-vasanam
mahaprabhor vrajagganadi-bhava-moda-karakam
bhajamy ahamgadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. He
is very dear to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and it is as if he had sprouted
from the manifestation of the Lord`s ecstatic love. He is always adorned
with the garments of ecstatic love of Godhead, and He delights Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu by arousing in the Lord the ecstatic emotional love experienced
by the gopis of Vraja.
Text 6
dvijendra-vrnda-vandya-pada-yugma-bhakti-vardhakam
nijesu radhikatmata-vapuh-prakasanagraham
asesa-bhakti-sastra-siksayojjvalamrta-prabam
bhajamyaham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu, who
expands the mellows of devotional service and whose lotus feet are
worshipped by the kings of the brahmanas. Among his confidential associates,
he reveals his actual form as Srimati Radharani. He distributes the nectar
of the ecstatic mellow of the gopis conjugal love, strictly following the
instructions of all the devotional scriptures.
Text 7
muda nija-priyadika-svapada-padma-sindhubhir
maha-rasarnavamrta-pradesta-gaura-bhaktidam
sadast-sattvikanvitam nijesta-bhakti-dayakam
bhajamyaham gadadharam supanditam gurum prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. With
delight he is giving the devotional service of Lord Caitanya which reveals
the nectarean ocean of the most exalted mellows of devotional service, along
with the nectar flowing from the lotus feet of the gopis, headed by Srimati
Radharani, who is most dear to Krsna. Gadadhara Prabhu is decorated with the
eight transcendental ecstatic symptoms of sattvika-bhava,and he is
distributing devotional service to his worshippable Lord Krsna.
Text 8
yadiya-riti-raga- bhagga-digdhamanaso naro `api
yati turnam eva narya-bhava-bhajanam tam
ujjvalakta-cittam etu citta-matta-catpado
bhajamy aham gadadharam supanditam guram prabhum
I worship the greatly learned spiritual master, Srila Gadadhara Prabhu. Even
a conditioned soul, whose mind becomes anointed by the colorful waves of
spontaneous devotional service as delineated by Srila Gadadhara Prabhu,
quickly attains the highest level of devotional service. He becomes like a
maddened bumble bee whose mind is anointed with the mellow of ujjvala-rasa
(conjugal love).
Text 9
maha-rasamrta-pradam sada gadadhara-astakam pathet tu
yah subhaktito vrajaggana-ganotsavam
saci-tanuja-pada-padma-bhakti-ratna-yogyatam labheta
radhika-gadadharagghri-padma-sevaya
“These eight verses glorifying Srila Gadadhara Prabhu distribute the nectar
of the most exalted mellow of devotional service, and they are like a
festival for the gopis of Vraja. If one regularly reads these verses and
serves the lotus feet of Srila Gadadhara Prabhu, who is an incarnation of
Srimati Radharani, then he will become qualified to attain the jewel of pure
devotional service for the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya,the son of Sacidevi.”
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