Calcutta- City Of Divine Grace by Rajasekhar Das

Calcutta-City Of Divine Grace
 The acharyas of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya, Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and his son, Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami, have both declared that Calcutta should be revered as holy tirtha. This is because the Golden Avatara, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, visited Calcutta during His pilgrimage to South India in 1510. In his Anubhashya, Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes, "In the Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika (203) it is said, 'Bhagavata Acharya compiled a book entitled Krishna-prema-tarangini, and he was the most beloved devotee of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. When Lord Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu visited Varahanagara, now a suburb of Calcutta, He stayed in the house of a most fortunate brahmana who was a very learned scholar in Bhagavata literature. As soon as this brahmana saw Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he began to read Shrimad-Bhagavatam. When Mahaprabhu heard his explanation, which expounded bhakti- yoga, He immediately became unconscious in ecstasy. Lord Chaitanya later said, 'I have never heard such a nice explanation of Shrimad-Bhagavatam.