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Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Vamśi Dāsa (1838-11-17)17 November 1838[1] |
| Died | 17 November 1915(1915-11-17) (aged 77)[1] |
| Known for | being considered a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Senior posting | |
| Guru | Got initiated by Nimaichand Goswami (Uthali, Bangladesh) |
Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji (IAST:Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī; 1838–1915) is a well-knownacharya from theGaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is regarded as aMahatma orsaint by followers of his lineage. During his lifetime Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji became famous for his teachings on the process ofBhakti Yoga and for his unorthodoxavadhuta like behaviour as asadhu, or babaji inVrindavan.
He was born on 17 November 1838[1] in a simple mercantile family in the village of Vagyana, near toTepakhola in the district ofFaridpur, part of modern-day Bangladesh. After the death of his wife when he was 29 years old, he accepted the life of a Babaji in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition under the tutelage of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, after meeting the latter's disciple, Bhagavat Dasa Babaji. He became amendicant, staying in the holy cities of Vrindavan andNavadwip, deeply absorbed in singing andchanting the sacred names ofRadha andKrishna (Bhajan).He died on his 77th birthday in 1915.
In the early 1900s,Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura acknowledged that he took initiation from Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji and given the name 'Varsabhanavi devi dayita dasa'. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati would later take an unorthodox form of initiation into thesannyasa order, in which "he simply sat down before a picture of Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji and invested that order upon himself."[2] This is considered by some a contested topic.[3]
