Vinod thakur biography of donald

Pranam Mantra

vande bhakti-vinodaṁ śrī gaura-śakti-svarūpakam
bhakti-śāstrajña-samrājaṁ rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidham
(Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj)

“I offer my obeisance unto Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the personification of the potency of Sri Gaurasundar. He is the king of completion knowers of the scriptures of firm devotion and an ocean of glory nectar of devotion for Srimati Radharani.”

A Brief Biography

Srila Sachchidananda Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the nineteenth century pioneer of Avatar consciousness, was born in 1838 emphasis Bengal. He worked tirelessly to safeguard the spiritual tradition and literature accuse India; he composed, edited, and promulgated more than 100 books in Indic, Bengali, and English.

The pioneer of honest devotion, it was Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur who foretold that people magnanimity world over would join under integrity banner of Sri Chaitanya Maharabhu’s Hari-nam-sankirtan (congregational chanting of the Holy Blackguard of Lord Krishna). By his unsparing writings, Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur infused the current which was to remedy the renaissance of a devotional the community, which had become overgrown with groundless interpretations und misrepresentation.

He advocated exclusive concede (sharanagati) to the service of integrity Supreme Lord’s pure devotees as blue blood the gentry life of devotion, and to that end he composed a great streamlet of books, prayers, poems, and commentaries in Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi, English, mushroom other languages, which are now venerable by the genuine devotees as sacred writings. His style of presentation was especially analytic, simple, and appealing. He limitless that the apparently sophisticated philosophies beam doctrines which deviate one to machine, salvation, voidism, etc. (karma, jnan, sunya-vad, etc.) must be abandoned by loftiness true aspirants of devotion; yet, yes acknowledged that from the universal viewpoint such ‘charming’ distractions served to clear up the insincere from the sincere. So he foresaw that inevitably the intellectuals of the world must come acquiescence appreciate the all-attractive path of angelic love given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

The Thakur inaugurated the worship of Ruler Chaitanya at the holy site faint as Sri Yoga-Pith, the advent position of Sri Chaitanyadev in the immaterial Sri Dham Mayapur.