Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja: Four Rupanuga Vaisnava Acarya

This book describes the life and precepts of a Vaisnava Babaji, named Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja, who lived in India in the 1800's and early 1900's. He lived to be over 102 years old. Jagannatha dasa Babaji was directly responsible for reestablishing the birth place of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Yogapita Mayapur Bengal India, which had been lost over time and the ever changing flow of the river Ganges. Babaji Maharaja was a close associate of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur and directly transferred his inspiration to reestablish Mahaprabhu's birth place into the heart of Bhaktivinode Thakur. India had been going through quite the uprising during the mid 1800's a and despite this Bhaktivinode Thakur taking the help and inspiration of the aged and exalted Vaisnava Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja began the revival of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement. Bhaktivinode Thakur was known to have established the 'mano-bhista' inner hearts top most desire of Jagannatha das Babaji starting with reprinting and reestablishing the Vaisnava literature's and the birth place of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Despite being over 100 years old, during kirtana, Babaji was know to jump up to 5-6 feet in the air during his dancing. According to Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada he was an incarnation of an associate of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu named, Thanesvari Jagannatha. Jagannatha das Babaji after hearing how Bhaktisidhanta Prabhupada had mastered astrology at the age of twelve, requested him along with Bhaktivinode Thakur to make a Vaisnava calendar which is used by all Vaisnava devotees the world over even today. He was deeply renounced and intolerant of pretender sadhus (saints or holy men). A must read for all aspiring Vaisnavas' young and old.
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