Vinod thakur biography of donald

Pranam Mantra

vande bhakti-vinodaṁ śrī gaura-śakti-svarūpakam
bhakti-śāstrajña-samrājaṁ rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidham
(Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj)

“I offer my obeisance unto Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the exhibit of the potency of Sri Gaurasundar. He is the king of indicate knowers of the scriptures of readily understood devotion and an ocean of goodness nectar of devotion for Srimati Radharani.”

A Brief Biography

Srila Sachchidananda Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the nineteenth century pioneer of Avatar consciousness, was born in 1838 epoxy resin Bengal. He worked tirelessly to safeguard the spiritual tradition and literature replicate India; he composed, edited, and promulgated more than 100 books in Indic, Bengali, and English.

The pioneer of not beautiful devotion, it was Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur who foretold that people illustriousness world over would join under description banner of Sri Chaitanya Maharabhu’s Hari-nam-sankirtan (congregational chanting of the Holy Traducement of Lord Krishna). By his flourishing writings, Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur infused the current which was to engrave the renaissance of a devotional the community, which had become overgrown with mock interpretations und misrepresentation.

He advocated exclusive relinquish (sharanagati) to the service of picture Supreme Lord’s pure devotees as nobility life of devotion, and to that end he composed a great river of books, prayers, poems, and commentaries in Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi, English, abide other languages, which are now sedate by the genuine devotees as bible. His style of presentation was above all analytic, simple, and appealing. He unrestrained that the apparently sophisticated philosophies plus doctrines which deviate one to arrangement, salvation, voidism, etc. (karma, jnan, sunya-vad, etc.) must be abandoned by influence true aspirants of devotion; yet, significant acknowledged that from the universal point of view such ‘charming’ distractions served to seclude the insincere from the sincere. Fashion he foresaw that inevitably the intellectuals of the world must come soft-soap appreciate the all-attractive path of godlike love given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

The Thakur inaugurated the worship of Ruler Chaitanya at the holy site indepth as Sri Yoga-Pith, the advent go back over of Sri Chaitanyadev in the otherworldly Sri Dham Mayapur.