At Sri Yogapith

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Nabadwip Dham Parikrama, Day Two
18 March 2019, Sri Yogapith (Mayapur)

By the mercy of Srila Gurudev, we have come here to Sri Yogapith. This is the birthplace of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu—He appeared under the neem tree that still stands just outside in the courtyard. The Lord Himself bestowed His mercy upon Sri Sachi Devi and Sri Jagannath Misra and appeared as their son. His Name, given to Him at birth, is Vishvambhar; He is also known as Nimai because He appeared under a neem tree; and later, when He took sannyas, His name became Sri Krishna Chaitanya.

This place is in Antardwip. The whole of Nabadwip is an eight petal lotus flower—there are eight islands situated on outside as petals and Antardwip is in the middle of the lotus as its core. As we told before when speaking about Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, when Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur found this place, he brought Srila Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj here. Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur traced the former current of the Ganges, that it was flowing where Madhai ghat is. In the course of time, the Ganga flooded this whole area, but she eventually dried this land and the birthplace of the Lord, this Yogapith, emerged again.

Our Param Gurudev Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj also used to stay nearby, at Sri Chaitanya Math. From here, we will go next to Srivas Angan (the house of Srila Srivas Pandit), the house of Srila Gadadhar Pandit, Sri Chaitanya Math, after that to the samadhi of Chand Kazi, and then to Jagannath temple.

Actually, Sri Nityananda Prabhu first circumambulated this Sri Nabadwip Dham with Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhu, and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur describes it in his Sri Nabadwip Dham Mahatmya (Chapter 5, 'Sri Mayapur and Antardwip'):

At first, everything, all crop fields of this area, went under water but then again re-emerged.

It says here at Mayapur stands on the eastern bank of the Bhagirathi (Ganga), but there are some sahajiyas that claim that Mayapur is in Koladwip, on the opposite bank—they have even made a temple called 'prachin mayapur' there—but Mahaprabhu's birthplace is here in Yogapith, in this very house. Always remember this.

Many think that Mahaprabhu left Nabadwip and travelled to many places, went to Puri, etc.; many also say that Krishna left everything and went to Mathura—is it not? Krishna may have gone to Mathura leaving Vrindavan, but Vrindavan Krishna never leaves Vrindavan. There is Dwarakesh Krishna, there is Mathuresh Krishna, and there is also Vraja Krishna—Vraja Krishna never leaves Vrindavan.

অধ্যাপিহ সেই লীলা করে গোরা-রায় ।
কোন কোন ভাগ্যবান জীব দেখিবারে পায় ॥

adyapiha sei lila kare gora raya
kona kona bhagyavane jiva dekhibare paya

"Gora Ray continues performing His Pastimes, and those who are fortunate can see it."

Gauranga Mahaprabhu performs His pastimes even now, and those who have the eyes, who have the fortune can see everything, but those who do not say all these wrong things—they say Mahaprabhu left everything, that Mahaprabhu disappeared in this place, in that place, etc. The Lord's pastimes are still going on here, and it is by our great fortune that we have come here to take the darshan of Yogapith. We shall pay our obeisance here and then proceed to Sri Chaitanya Math...

The domes of Sri Yogapith temple.

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