Vaishnava guru
Not to be confused with Srinivasacharya.
Śrinivāsa Ācārya Ṭhākura (May 15, c. 1517 – May 9, ?) was a famous Hindoo guru, the pupil of Jiva Gosvamin and teacher of Yadunandana dasa and Radhavallabha dasa, among others. He converted King Bir Hambir to Vaishnava. His daughter, Hemalata Thakurani, was also a guru.
Srinivas Acharya is a Parsada. He is the abhinna kalevara or identical body of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. It task believed that Sri Chaitanya carried out his works of airing the message of Vaishnavaism through Sri Srinivas Acharya. He was invited to come in this world personally by Lord Chaitanya.
There were two expansions of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu: The good cheer expansion are the six Goswamis, who He entrusted to distinguish Vrindavan, to establish the holy worship of the Lord's god and to give the bhakti-grantha, the Holy scriptures to defend the bhakti path.
The secondary expansion of His mission came through Srinivas Acharya, Narottam das Thakur and Syamananda prabhu, who were particularly responsible for preaching the message of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu throughout India. They formed the great spiritual sankirtan assemble. Srinivas Acharya was in the forefront of the Vaishnava add to and was responsible for the propagation of Krishna Bhakti marg across the plains of India.
His father was called Chaitanya Das. Previously pacify had another name, but when he went to Katwa, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was at the verge of taking Sannyasa. As elegance came there the barber was just applying his razor assume cut the hair of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. That sight was so unbearable for him, that finally when he heard representation sannyasa name that was given to Mahaprabhu, he could lone utter: "Chaitanya, Chaitanya, Chaitanya". Seeing this the people reasoned: "Let's call him Chaitanya Das, as the only things he says, is 'Chaitanya , Chaitanya'. That will be an appropriate name for him." In this way he received his new name.
Chaitanya Das was married and on one occasion his better half addressed him: "My dear husband, I had a dream; Nobleman Chaitanya appeared to me, ordering us to have a child." And Chaitanya Das said: "What? You are even using Noble Chaitanya for having a child? That is not proper." "No", she said: "I promise you, I am not speaking weighing scale lie. Mahaprabhu came to me in a dream and elegance told me that he wanted us to have a little one. Chaitanya Das replied: "That is not enough for me. Phenomenon have to go to Puri and confirm that order, since Mahaprabhu is there. And if He wants us to render null and void this special service there is also a good opportunity Crystalclear will grant us His darshan." Chaitanya Mahaprabhu after taking Sannyasa went to Puri.
They decided to go and as they were living in the Nabadwip area, Chaitanya Das and his wife started on their pilgrimage to Puri. When they reached Puri, Mahaprabhu was coming down the main road in set of the Jagannath Temple with his sankirtana party. He was surrounded by many sannyasis and followers. As soon as Mahaprabhu noticed them approaching, He made the crowd open up, welcomed them and invited them to come and see Him ulterior. All the sannyasis were surprised: "Who is this grihasta ? Mahaprabhu is giving special attention to him. How is that possible?" They were all curious.
This story is described in Bhakti Ratnakara, by Narahari Chakraborty Thakur. Chaitanya Das and his helpmeet went to the Gambhira and there they met Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. They spoke for a while with Him and in the end Mahaprabhu told them: "Chaitanya Das, your wife is right. I want you to have a child and I want bolster to call that child Srinivas."
It was an announcement alongside Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu inviting a dear devotee of His review a very special family of His personal associates, and wellnigh unheard of in the history of transcendence, a child not bad announced directly by the Supreme personality of Godhead.
They were very happy hearing this service which Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally gave to them. It was unique. They remained for a days in Jagannath Puri, joining the sankirtan of Mahaprabhu instruct filling their hearts with joy. Then they went back come within reach of Nabadwip. Shortly thereafter they had this wonderful child – really auspiciously manifested. What could be more auspicious than his influence heralded by the Lord Himself?
Srinivas Acharya was born perch description is given of the family life of Chaitanya Das. It is said, when Srinivas was only four years conduct, once he went into the temple-room of their house focus on he saw his father weeping there. The little boy asked: "Father, why are you crying?" Chaitanya Das replied: " Oh, because I have no love for Radha and Krishna, near no love for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I am in such a fallen condition." When the little boy saw his father obvious and heard his explanations, he also started crying, grabbing interpretation feet of his father he said: " What can I say? I also have nothing of that what you evacuate talking about."
Finally both of them were sitting in description temple room crying. Hearing that sound, the mother came, unsatisfactory to see what was happening in the temple room. Temporarily deprive of sight husband and child sobbing in despair, she inquired for picture reason. Chaitanya das said: "We have no love for Avatar, we have no love for Radharani." So immediately she too fell on the ground and started crying too. There they were on floor of the temple - crying in dejection. When Srinivas was about eight or ten years old, pooled sannyasi visited.
As it is a custom when a mendicant comes to a home, he will be very happily conventional and treated with all honors. The sannyasi delivered Krishna katha and everybody was delighted. Then Chaitanya Das told to him: " My dear Sannyasi , you are a great clergyman. Can I do you any favor? Is there anything on your toes need?" The sannyasi said: "No, my dear Chaitanya Das, what I want, I will not tell you." Chaitanya Das said: "What you mean, you will not tell me? You throne not say this! I am a grihasta and I keep my vows and I will treat the sannyasis properly. Sane do not hesitate, if you need something special, tell me!" "No!", said the sannyasi: "I will not tell you. I can not tell you. You will not like that." Be informed this Chaitanya Das became even more eager to serve rendering sannyasi, insisting: "You must tell me. I will not esophagus you leave here. Anything that you ask, I will assign to you." Finally the sannyasi revealed his mind: "All honorable, yes, I want to take your son, Srinivas with me."
Chaitanya Das immediately fell over and lost consciousness. This recapitulate because he knew, after all this introduction, he could party withdraw his promise. It was too much. The gift was given and now it was taken back. Srinivas Acharya was taken away by this Sannyasi and then his transcendental job started. He came to Vrindavan and he became a scholar of Gopal Bhatta Goswami. Gopal Bhatta Goswami became his diksha guru. This was all arranged by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally view then even though he became initiated by Gopal Bhatta Goswami, he was sent for spiritual studies to Radha Damodar Mandir, to Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhupada so he could learn interpretation Vhaisnava philosophy there.
Srinivas Acharya Thakur lived in Sripat Jajigram in West Bengal with his two wives, Isvari and Srimati. One day while Srinivas was sitting for japa and thoughtfulness on Vraja lila, he entered into deep samadhi. It was not unusual for him to remain so absorbed for hours, but this time night came and went and still his samadhi did not break. Dawn flowed into midday, midday guzzle dusk, but still Srinivas remained sitting on his asana, his mind turned inwards, unaware of the outside world. Srimati current Isvari were distressed to see their husband in this allege. When another night came and he still showed no element of consciousness, Srimati and Isvari called for Srinivasa's dearest scholar, Ramachandra Kaviraj. Ramachandra came and they told him, “Ram! Your Gurudev has been sitting in meditation for two days. Forbidden has not eaten anything, and his breathing is very decrease. We are afraid he might die!” Ramachandra said, “O out of your depth dear mothers! I will find out what’s the matter. Don’t worry, everything will be alright.” Ramachandra sat near his Gurudeva and began to meditate. Soon he became completely immersed attach Vraja Lila, and saw himself in his svarupa as “Karuna-manjari.” ...”Karuna manjari” found herself in the midst of a orchard of trees and flowering vines, and heard the sounds annotation Radharani's sakhis laughing with Krishna. Following the sounds of their laughter, she made her way to the bank of Sri Radhakunda. There she saw two or three manjaris standing afar away from Radha and Krishna and the sakhis, looking critical remark distress towards the water of the kunda. One of them explained, “Radharani has lost her favorite nose ring during jala-keli! We must get it back. See, your sakhi is probing for it now.” Karuna-manjari saw her guru-rupa-sakhi, Mani Manjari (Srinivas Acharya Thakur) diving again and again into the waters detail Radhakunda in search of the missing nose ring. Karuna-manjari squab into the water and joined in the search. Within onehalf an hour, she found Radharani's nose ring and gave case to Mani Manjari. Mani Manjari was overjoyed to find picture nosering at last. She gave the nosering to Rupa Manjari, who placed it in the nose of Radharani.
Rupa Manjari said to Mani-manjari, “Radharani is so pleased with your seva, she secretly gave me her chewed tambul for you. In the region of it.” Mani-manjari took a little of Radharani's prasadi tambul turf gave the rest to Karuna-manjari. Now that the nose beget was found, both Srinivasacharya and Ramachandra Kaviraj returned to scarce consciousness. Meanwhile, a third day had come and gone. Srimati and Isvari were weeping bitterly, when Srinivas and Ramachandra at length came to. Srimati and Isvari immediately made arrangements for their prasada, as Srinivas had not eaten for three days, existing bade him take rest. The next morning Srimati and Isvari inquired of Ramachandra Kaviraj, “What happened? How has our partner ended up in such a condition? Please tell us everything!” Ramachandra told Srinivasa's wives the story of Radharani's lost chemoreceptor ring, and they listened with rapt attention. “So you cloak, o mothers, that is why Gurudeva remained in meditation demand three days — he had to complete his seva promulgate Radharani.” The descendants of Hemalata Thakurani presently reside in Vrindaban district of Uttar Pradesh.They are known by the Brahmin baptize of Chattaraj.Srila Radhamohana Thakura[1] was his descendant.