suddhabhakti

Shyamananda Prabhu was a great devotee of Lord Chaitanya. He was a contemporary of the great Acharyas Srinivasa Acharya and Narottama Dasa Thakura. The three were eternal associates of Lord Chaitanya incarnated to spread His teachings after the Lord’s disappearance. They studied under Srila Jiva Goswami in Vrindavan. They created a resurgence of Lord Chaitanya’s Bhakti movement in Bengal and Orissa, where it was flagging in the period after the Lord had left the planet. Birth & Childhood 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Shri Syamananda made his appearance at Utkala in the village of Dharenda Bahadurpur. His father’s name was Shri Krishna Mandal and his mother’s name was Shri Durika. Shri Krishna Mandal, who descended in the line of sad-gopas, had many sons and daughters who unfortunately passed away before the birth of this son. For this reason this son was named Dukhiya.    Everyone said that this child would be a very high-souled saintly person. “On the full moon day of the month of Caitra ...

  King Nahusha, had six sons named Yati, Yayati, Samyati, Ayati, Viyati, and Kriti.      Knowing that the acceptance of the royal throne makes one blind to self-realization, Yati refused to accept the rule of the kingdom, even though his father offered it to him. Because Agastya Rishi cursed Nahusha after he had molested Indra’s wife, he fell down from heaven and accepted the body of a python. Consequently, Yayati became the king, and allowed his four younger brothers to rule the four directions.  Once upon a time, Sharmistha, the daughter of King Vrishaparva, who was innocent but angry by nature, was walking in the palace garden along with Devayani, the daughter of Sukracharya, and thousands of other girlfriends. The garden was full of flowering trees and inhabited by sweetly singing birds, and when the girls came to the shore of a lotus pond, they decided to play in the water. After leaving their clothes on the shore, the girls entered the lake and began enjoy...

   She was the only daughter of King Naresanarayana of Puntiya in the district of Rajsahi (now in Bangladesh). During her childhood she was called Saci. She was endowed with a religious temperament from youth and within a short time Saci became conversant with Vyakarana, Kavya and various scriptures.    When Saci grew up, her beauty and grace charmed everyone. However, Saci felt no attraction for any man however handsome or wealthy he may be. Her heart belonged to her Madanagopala. When she came to know that her parents were concerned about her marriage, Saci very firmly told them that she would never marry a mortal being. The king and queen were so disturbed by their daughter"s decision that they both passed away, leaving Saci to shoulder the responsibility of running the royal administration. She performed her royal duties for some time, but after a short while she set out on a pilgrimage, leaving the royal administration in the charge of her relatives.   ...