Disappearance Day of Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji
First day of Bhisma Pancaka · Utthana Ekadashi
Disappearance Day
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What is the disappearance day of Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji?
It is the day Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja left this world and entered the Lord's eternal pastimes. In 2026 devotees remember him on Saturday, 21 November. He left on Utthana Ekadashi in 1915, so the two fall together.
Significance
A babaji is a Vaishnava who has given up all possessions to live in worship, and Gaura Kisora was a great one. After leaving his home he went to Vrindavana and was initiated by Bhagavata dasa Babaji. He spent about thirty years in Vraja, sleeping beneath a tree, begging his food, and offering obeisances to the people of Vraja and even to its flowers and trees. Later he came to Navadvipa, where he lived on rice he had begged and rarely accepted anything from anyone.
He is the spiritual master of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and so the grand-spiritual master of Srila Prabhupada. In the Gaura-kisora Pranati prayer, devotees offer obeisances to him, as one
who is renunciation personified. He is always merged in a feeling of separation and intense love of Kṛṣṇa.
Gaura-kisora Pranati, Initiation lecture, Los Angeles, 10 January 1969
How to observe it
Devotees hear about his life, recite the Gaura-kisora Pranati and chant the holy names with extra care. Since Ekadashi is kept on the same day, grains and beans are avoided as usual.
Questions
When is the disappearance day of Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji in 2026?
It is on Saturday, 21 November 2026, the same day as Utthana Ekadashi and the first day of Bhisma Pancaka.
Who was Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji?
He was a renounced Vaishnava saint who lived in Vraja and then Navadvipa. He gave initiation to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and is Srila Prabhupada's grand-spiritual master.
What is a babaji?
A babaji is a Vaishnava who has given up all possessions and lives in worship, often begging his food. Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji lived this way all his life.
Whose disciple was Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji?
He was initiated by Bhagavata dasa Babaji, a disciple of Jagannatha dasa Babaji.
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Key facts
- Date
- Saturday, 21 November 2026
- Also on this day
- First day of Bhisma Pancaka · Utthana Ekadashi
- Fasting
- Till noon, kept on Utthana Ekadashi; the feast is the next day
- Spiritual master of
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
- Initiated by
- Bhagavata dasa Babaji
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