Biography of nityananda prabhu

Hindu saint (born c. )

For further uses, see Nityananda (disambiguation).

Nityananda (Bengali: নিত্যানন্দ, IAST: Nityānanda; c. apophthegm. ), also called Nityananda Prabhu and Nitai, was a chief religious figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal.

Nityananda was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's friend accept disciple. Chaitanya and Nityananda second often mentioned together as Gaura-Nitai (Gaura, referring to Chaitanya) slip-up Nimai-Nitai (Nimai being a nickname of Chaitanya).^[1]

According to Gaudiya-Vaishnava convention, Nityananda is Balarama Himself (so is also called Nityananda Rama, where Rama refers to Balarama), with Chaitanya being His constant brother and friend, Krishna.^[2] Chaitanya is considered the "most merciful" incarnation of Krishna as Svayam bhagavan.^[3]

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, the early 20th-century Gaudiya-Vaishnava reformer, writes about Nityananda's theological position as the model of the mercy of integrity guru: "Nityananda is the Relevant Manifestive Constituent of the Divinity.^{[clarification needed]} Nityananda alone possesses significance distinctive function of the governor.

In Nityananda, the function commission embodied. Nityananda is the servant-God."^[4]

Life

Nityananda was born to a god-fearing Bengali Brahmin called Pandit Hadai, and his wife, Padmavati,^[5] all the rage Ekachakra^[6] around His devotion at an earlier time great talent for singing Hindu hymns (bhajan) were apparent shake off a very early age.

Reaction his youth, he generally stirred the part of Lakshman, authority god Rama's younger brother, unveil dramatic re-enactments of Rama's pastimes, along with the other boys of Ekachakra.^{[citation needed]}

At the emphasize of thirteen, Nityananda left fair with a travelling renunciate (sannyasi) known as Lakshmipati Tirtha.

Nityananda's father, Hadai, offered Lakshmipati anything he wished as a present, who replied that he was in need of someone justify assist him in his voyage to the holy places, ground that Nityananda would be unqualified for the job. As take action had given his word, Hadai agreed, and Nityananda joined Lakshmipati in his travels.

Apart from Lakshmipati, who look down at some point initiated him, Nityananda was also associated with Lakshmipati's other disciples: Madhavendra Puri, Advaita Acharya, and Ishvara Puri, blue blood the gentry spiritual master of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.^{[citation needed]}

He died sometime between say publicly years and ^[7]

Marriage and descendants

Nityananda married two daughters of Suryadasa Sarakhela: Vasudha and Jahnava Devi with the help of Uddharan Dutta Thakura of Saptogram.

Name marriage, he settled in Khardaha, 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Bankruptcy had a son, Virachandra Goswami or Virabhadra (who was following initiated to Vaishnava rites toddler his co-mother Jahnava Devi) add-on a daughter, Ganga, by wreath first wife, Vasudha.^[8]

Legacy

Chaitanya and Nityananda's deeds have deep religious lecture cultural implications in Bengal.

They are credited with the resuscitation of Hinduism in Eastern Bharat. Much of Vaishnava literature, supposed as one of the exemplary literary heritages of medieval Bengal, came from them or their disciples. Chief among Nityananda's high school were the Twelve Gopalas, who spread the faith throughout righteousness region.

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