Childhood pastimes of Jiva Goswami Shri Jiva Goswami was the nephew of Shri Rupa and Sanatana Goswami. Rupa and Sanatana were working as government officials under Nawab Hussein Shah in the capital of Bengal, which at that time was Pamkeli. From there they wrote many letters to Gauranga Mahaprabhu. They were pure Vaishnavas from birth. They were forced by social pressures to take service under a miechcha king. But they couid understand by the pure intuition of their heart that Shri Shri Radha and Krishna, the eternal Lord and His Consort had appeared as Gauranga Mahaprabhu. So they were writing letters asking "What should we do? We want to join you. We want to serve you. But we are under this most lamentable and degraded condition of life." Anyway, Mahaprabhu didn't answer their letters many times. The parents of Rupa, Sanatana and Anupam .were great devotees. They were pure Vaishnavas who encouraged them to continue writing to Mahaprabhu. In fact their parent...