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       Sowing the seed of our highest benefit 
          
        In glorification of Srila Gadadhar Pandit and Srila 
        Sachchidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakur on their Holy Disappearance day 
         
      By His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj 
         
         
        From Heart and Halo, 
        Part Two, 'Heart and Halo' 
      
       
       
         
          
             
             
               
                
                
                   
                   
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                       Sri Sri Gaura Gadadhar, 
                        worshipped since the time of Mahaprabhu at the Sri Sri 
                        Gaura Gadadhar Mandir in Champahati, Sri Nabadwip Dham. 
                         
                      "It is as if Mahaprabhu 
                        has taken away Gadadhar Pandit's soul, and the body is 
                        still standing! That is the position of Gadadhar Pandit; 
                        he is quite empty, and following Mahaprabhu. He is not 
                        full in himself. Something, the most important thing, 
                        his heart, has been taken by Mahaprabhu, so he has no 
                        other alternative but to follow Him." 
                       
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          In Gaura-lila, Gadadhar Pandit is holding the helm, everything belongs 
            to him; still he has to admit he's dispossessed, that Gauranga has 
            taken everything! He is exhaustively dedicated to Gauranga. So Srila 
            Kaviraja Goswami says: teho laksmi-rupa, tara sama keha nai, 
            that he represents the main potency of Gauranga, and no one is to 
            be compared with him. This is the conclusion of Srila Kaviraja Goswami 
            about Sri Gadadhar. He is Gaura-premamaya, the embodiment of 
            Sri Gaura's love. 
         
        Gadadhar Das represents the halo of Radharani, 
          but Gadadhar Pandit represents Her mood, Her nature - Her heart.* 
          It is as if Mahaprabhu has taken away Gadadhar Pandit's soul, and the 
          body is still standing! That is the position of Gadadhar Pandit; he 
          is quite empty, and following Mahaprabhu. He is not full in himself. 
          Something, the most important thing, his heart, has been taken by Mahaprabhu, 
          so he has no other alternative but to follow Him. He is wholly given 
          to Mahaprabhu. Gadadhar Pandit's position, the part he played, was something 
          like that of Radharani, Her heart stolen by Krishna, the empty body 
          still standing. Radha-bhava-dyuti-subalitam naumi Krsna-svarupam: 
          He was fully engrossed in the conception of Sri Gauranga. Gauranga had 
          taken everything from him, so he had no other alternative; he was fully 
          engrossed, captured completely by Him. 
        We find his activity throughout his whole 
          life was like this. Of the other devotees, some were ordered to go to 
          Vrindavan, and some were allowed to go there, but though Gadadhar Pandit 
          wanted to visit Vrindavan with Mahaprabhu Himself, he was denied: "No, 
          you won't go." When Jagadananda Pandit asked to go there, Mahaprabhu, 
          with hesitation, granted him permission, "Yes, go there, but move 
          always under the guidance of Rupa and Sanatana." He also gave him 
          some special instructions: "Do this, and this, and don't do that." 
          But Gadadhar Pandit was not allowed to go there. 
        He was the representation of Srimati Radharani Herself, 
          yet his peculiar position was such: the Queen of Vrindavan, but now 
          transferred to Nabadwip. His position had become just the opposite; 
          he could not enter Vrindavan! He prayed for permission, but Mahaprabhu 
          did not give it. He said, 
          "No, stay and live here." And he had to do so. Sri Gadadhar 
          Pandit represents the predominated moeity of the Whole. The Whole consists 
          of predominating and predominated moeities, and he represents the predominated 
          half. He is one half of the Absolute Truth. 
        
          *In the Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta 
            purports by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad (Adi-lila, 10.15) 
            it is stated that Srila Gadadhar Pandit, the fourth branch of the 
            Chaitanya tree, is the combination of Srimati Radharani and Lalita-sakhi. 
            In the Pancha-Tattva, Srila Gadadhar Pandit represents the internal 
            potency or pleasure potency of the Lord. In Adi-lila 10.53, it is 
            explained that Srila Gadadhar Das, the twenty-third branch of the 
            Chaitanya tree, is considered to be a united form of Chandrakanti, 
            who is the effulgence of Srimati Radharani, and Purnananda, who is 
            the foremost of Lord Balarama's very dear girlfriends. Thus Srila 
            Gadadhar Das was one of the associates of both Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 
            and Nityananda Prabhu. 
         
       
      
         
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