Vrindavan, 2016.01.30 (VT): Jayadeva Goswami’s Tirobhav Mahotsava (disappearance anniversary) was celebrated with great devotion in Radha Damodar Temple. Scores of devotees and saints paid their respect to the great poet and composer by visiting his samadhi situated in the campus of the temple.
The ‘tirobhav celebration’ began with the special puja, abhishek and aarati of Thakur Shri Radha Madhav, the deities worshiped by Shri Jayadeva Goswami. Thakur Shri Radha Madhav and Shri Radha Damodar along with the other deities present in the temple were decorated with flowers and adorned with special clothes.
The Goswamis of the temple performed the Samadhi Pujan, where devotees offered flowers and garlands on the pushpa samadhi. The saints, acharyas and devotees glorified the author and composer of Gita Govindam and paid tribute to him on his samadhi.
Harinam Sankirtan was performed by the Vaishnavas. Many western devotees also participated in the programme to pay their tribute to Jayadeva Goswami. They danced to the tunes of Harinam Sankirtan.
A bhakti conference was also convened where the speakers threw light on the life and works of Jai Dev. Glorifying Shri Jayadeva Goswami for his works Shri Tamal Krishna Das Brahmachari from Imlitala said, “Gita Govinda expresses the intense feelings of separation that Shri Radhika felt before the rasa dance. It also describes the most intimate pastime of the Divine Couple, Shri Radha Madhav. During Lord Chaitanya’s daily Gambhira Lila in Puri, Mahaprabhu would thoroughly relish hearing the Gita Govinda sung daily by Swarup Damodar and Mukunda.”
Tridandi Swami Shri Bhaktivedanta Madhusudan Maharaj said, “Shri Jaidev Goswami appeared three hundred years before Shriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Shri Jayadeva Goswami served as the priest in the court of Shri Laxman Sena, the then King of Bengal. Jayadeva and his wife Padmavati, who was a great dancer, used to worship Shri Krishna with single minded devotion. After sometime he left the opulent royal life to live peaceful in a grass hut in Champahatti in Nabadweep.”
Nirmal Chandra Goswami.
Presiding over the function Acharya Shriyukta Nirmal Chandra Goswami, chief sevait of the Radha Damodar temple, said, “Once Jayadeva felt inspired to write that Krishna bows down to Radha Rani to touch her feet. But he was hesitant to write it as it would challenge the Lord being the supreme power of the universe. He went to take bath in Ganga to refresh his thoughts. When he came back from the Ganga he found that someone had completed the sentence in his work of Gita Govinda, by writing dehi pada pallava udaram.
“Later he found that is was Krishna Himself who had come and completed the sentence. Krishna had come in disguise as Jayadeva himself and written down the lines. He even took prasadam from the hands of Jayadeva’s wife Padmavati. Radha Madhav manifested to hear the Gita Govinda from the mouth of the great composer.”
Other speakers said that Shrila Jayadeva Goswami was the composer of the immortal Sanskrit devotional song Gita Govinda, which depicts the love story of Shri Krishna and His sweet heart Radha Rani, was one of the most celebrated Vaishnava poets of India. The Gita Govinda has inspired millions of people with its sincere expressions of Divine Love.
Shri Mahamantra Das, Kanika Prasad Goswami, Krishna Balaram Goswami, Purna Chandra Goswami also addressed the conference.
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