Insights from the Life of Srila Gaura Kishore Das Babaji Maharaj

By Amogh Lila Das

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Course Duration

1 Day seminar

Videos

90 minutes

No. Of Sessions

1

Sessions per week

1

Language
English

Eligibility

None - open for all.

Schedule of Classes

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Starts on
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07:00 pm to 08:30 pm IST

Regular classes on

Fri

About the Teacher

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Amogh Lila Das

Amogh Lila Das is a senior disciple of H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj. He came in contact with ISKCON in 2000 and got initiated in 2006. Presently serving as Vice President at ISKCON Dwarka, and IYF Director. He came in Krishna consciousness as a seeker for truth, he left his home at age of 18 and then went to many spiritual organizations and at last his quest was satisfied in ISKCON. He is very friendly in his nature. Very cooperative and always extending himself for the service. Very famous over YouTube for Modern style preaching. His expertise is to explain even intricate philosophy with utmost ease and in very connecting way with humor. He is very simple at heart looks glamorous outside. He loves devotees very much. He joined ashram in 2010 and was appointed as Vice president of ISKCON Dwarka in 2013.


Course Overview

Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji is a well-known acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is regarded as a Mahatma or saint by followers of his lineage. During his lifetime Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji became famous for his teachings on the process of Bhakti Yoga and for his unorthodox avadhuta like behaviour as a sadhu, or babaji in Vrindavan.

He was born on 17 November 1838 in a simple mercantile family in the village of Vagyana, near to Tepakhola in the district of Faridpur, part of modern-day Bangladesh. After the death of his wife when he was twenty nine 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 a mendicant, staying in the holy cities of Vrindavan and Navadwip, deeply absorbed in singing and chanting the sacred names of Radha and Krishna (Bhajan). he died on his 77th birthday in 1915 In the early 1900s, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura acknowledged that he took initiation (in a night dream) from Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji and given the name 'Varsabhanavi devi daitya dasa'. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvata would later take an unorthodox form of initiation into the sannyasa order, in which "he simply sat down before a picture of Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji and invested that order upon himself." This is considered by some a contested topic.

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