Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur

Selected references to Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur, on the Math's websites.

Appearance day postings:

Audio: Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's Appearance Day. Informal talk by Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj over the phone with Madhusudhan Prabhu from Hawaii in May 2000.
"Vrindavan Das Thakur is the incarnation of Vedavyas for Chaitanya lila, and that Vrindavan Das Thakur, today is his appearance day. We are so happy when we are reading Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat, we cannot believe how sweet is this book... Actually, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur mentioned about Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat: it is pure suddha bhakti grantha. Pure suddha bhakti -- not depending upon any reason. It is like Ganges water flowing from up to down... Vrindavan Das Thakur was direct and last disciple of Sri Nityananda Prabhu and very much intoxicated with the Pastimes of Nityananda Prabhu."
Dum Dum Park Temple, Kolkata, 30 May 2000.
Download, or listen online (20+ minutes, 4.8 MB mp3 audio)

Bengali: Sloka in glorification of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur and Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami composed by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. Published in the introductions of our Bengali Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat and Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita. Srila Gurudev recites the verse and explains its meanings in the above audio (of 30 May 2000). Read here in Bengali the Introduction of our Chaitanya Bhagavat.

Vyasa Avatar. The pranam mantra of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur (English translation) composed by Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, as well as a lecture in which Srila Govinda Maharaj explains the mantra's meaning. Posted on the Math's gaudiyadarshan.com website.

Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's Appearance, illustrated article for the children devotees in honour of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's Appearance Day, prepared by Parama Bhakti Devi Dasi of Holland:
"When Mahaprabhu left this world Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur was about twenty years old. He was initiated by Sri Nityananda Prabhu. He was most probably the very last disciple Sri Nityananda Prabhu initiated...."

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Audio: Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur, 1982. A wonderful discourse by Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj about Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur spoken on his disappearance day.
"His heart is so full of devotion towards Nityananda and Sri Gauranga. We pray to him for a drop of that kind of pure and intense devotion towards Gaura-Nityananda from his feet." In the latter part of this recording Srila Guru Maharaj recites and explains the pranam mantrams to Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga composed by Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur.
18 April 1982:
36+ minutes, 8.9 MB mp3 audio

Flying in the Sky. In honour of the disappearance day of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur, 2012, the translation of a short excerpt from his book Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat in which he expresses his heart and the gist of his gift to the world. Posted on the Math's gaudiyadarshan.com website.

Introduction to Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat (English translation). Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's homage to Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur. Translated excerpt from the introduction by Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj to Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's Bengali publication of Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat. Posted on the Math's gaudiyadarshan.com website.