Re: Bhakti Siddhant Swamiji's Video

respected Maharajs and practitioners


from what I have read Srila Guar Kishor Babaji Maharaj worshiped the many Deity in Vraja? and not exclusively anyone deity in Brndavan


After the demise of his wife, Srila Gaura-kisora left his business and went to Vrindavana. There he approached Srila Bhagavata dasa Babaji, one of the foremost disciples of Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja, and accepted from him the traditional Paramahamsa Vaishnava Babaji dress.
After this, he became completely renounced and sojourned under trees in various parts of the 168-mile Vrajamandala (circle of Vrindavana). He continuously acted thus for a period of approximately thirty years. During this time he would sometimes travel to the holy places of pilgrimage in Northern and Western India, as well as the Gaura-mandala (the circle of Navadvipa). He associated with Srila Svarupa dasa Babaji Maharaja in Jagannatha Puri, whose ecstatic activities were recounted by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his autobiography. He also associated with Sri Bhagavan dasa Babaji in Kalna. He went to Kuliya, the holy site of Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji�s bhajana and associated with Srila Caitanya dasa Babaji. All of these Babajis were pure and exalted devotees. Srila Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji became very famous among the great devotees of Vrindavana and was awarded the appropriate title of bhajananandi. Even though he received such honor, he never endeavored for even a modicum of material sense gratification and totally disapproved of the secret material desires of pseudo-renunciates. He was entirely removed from such inclinations and would perform his pure, unalloyed devotional pastimes alone, in a profound devotional mood.
In the year 1897, during the month of Phalguna, when he was in his sixties, and at the time when the Yoga Pitha (birth site of Sri Caitanya) was revealed by the exertions of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Gaura-kisora Prabhu proceeded to Navadvipa-Dhama from Vrindavana under the instruction of Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja. From this time until his disappearance, Srila Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji remained in Sri Navadvipa-Dhama, living in different villages and realizing their non-difference from the holy places of Vrindavana. He begged by gathering dry foodstuffs from the householders of the Holy Dhama. He would sometimes offer those foodstuffs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the simple expedient of holding them in his hand. In order to cook he would collect dry wood from the paths, and he would wash earthen pots discarded by the villagers along the roadside near the Ganges River on the occasion of eclipses (due to the effects of an eclipse such pots were considered impure and unusable). In order to clothe himself, he would go to the shore of the Ganges and collect and wash discarded cloth that had been used to cover corpses at the burning ghat. Thus he always remained independent of the support of others, simply by utilizing items of no value to anyone else. In such a manner he obtained the practical necessities of life.

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