Parikrama Plans

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Ekachakra Dham, morning class
Sri Varaha Dvadasi, 6 February 2020, part 7
Translated from Bengali

One year, I want to make a parikrama of Gauda Mandal. I will see if I get an opportunity this year, after Gaura Purnima. We have not made this parikrama for a very long time. We will start from Kanai Natshala and go until one place in Mednipore. What is the name of that place?

Devotee: Ramakeli?

No, Ramakeli is in Malda. We can go there too. I mean a place in Mednipore—Gadadhar Pandit went until that place with Mahaprabhu, and then Mahaprabhu left the boat. I have forgotten the name.

Devotee: Pichalda?

Yes, Pichalda! There is a branch of Devananda Gaudiya Math there. In the South of Gauda Mandal, there is Kalna. There is the house of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Guru in Halisahar. It is necessary to go there. And if we go to Bangladesh, there is Pundarik Vidyanidhi's house in Chattogram. Mahaprabhu's father, Sri Jagannath Misra, came from Sylhet—there is a place there too, a Deity of Jagannath Misra is served there. That Deity came once to Nabadwip and then went back to Bangladesh by boat. These places are still there in Bangladesh. There is also Narottam Das's previous home in Sripat Kheturi Dham, in the district of Rajshahi. There are previous homes of many Gaudiya guru-varga in Bangladesh. For example, Srila Keshav Maharaj's (the acharya of Devananda Gaudiya Math) previous family home is also there. Even our Gurudev's father came from Rampur (near Dinajpur, Bangladesh). Gurudev told me that.

Anyhow, I will try and see—I want to make once this parikrama of all Gauda Mandal. It will not be very expensive—we can go by bus.

Have you heard the name of Laksman Sen? Laksman Sen made a Ballal Dirghik in Nabadwip, and that pond is still there. I have told you before that I will extend the parikrama by one day, and then we will be able to take darsan of all those places. Ballal Dirghik is in the direction of Simantadwip.

A four-hundred-page book is going to be printed soon about Sri Nabadwip Dham. You will find all the Hari-katha that we speak in those places in this book. Not everyone can understand the language of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur's Nabadwip Dham Mahatmya, that is why this book is coming out in simple and sweet Bengali language. I have gone through two hundred pages so far, and when I finish the remaining two hundred, I will send it quickly for printing. I do not get time to proofread—I need to sleep too because when I proofread, eyes become sleepy and can overlook some mistakes. When I was reading yesterday, I felt my eyes could not see any more, so I stopped...

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