Biography of Srila Locana Dasa Thakura Early Life and Spiritual Background Srila Locana Dasa Thakura was one of the most eminent poet-saints of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition and a direct inheritor of the devotional current inaugurated by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He appeared in Bengal during the sixteenth century, in the spiritually surcharged era immediately following Mahaprabhu’s manifest pastimes. From an early age, Locana Dasa exhibited deep attraction for bhakti, detac
