Disappearance Day of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami
Disappearance Day of Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami · Disappearance Day of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami
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What is the Disappearance Day of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami?
The disappearance day of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami is the day devotees remember how he left this world and entered the Lord's eternal pastimes. In 2026 it falls on Friday, 23 October. He wrote Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, the biography of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that Srila Prabhupada translated and explained for the whole world.
Significance
Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami grew up in a family of physicians in Bengal. One night Lord Nityananda Prabhu appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to Vrindavana. There he lived a renounced life near Radha Kunda and took shelter of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami and the other Gosvamis, the great teachers who followed Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Srila Prabhupada traced our disciplic succession (the unbroken line of teachers and students) through him, naming Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura as his direct disciple. Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami also have their disappearance days on this date.
O my dear Kṛṣṇadāsa, do not be afraid. Go to Vṛndāvana, for there you will attain all things.
Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 5.195
How to observe it
Devotees honour the day by reading or hearing from Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, remembering the humility of its author, and chanting the holy names with extra attention. A few verses read with a grateful heart are a good offering.
Questions
When is the disappearance day of Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami in 2026?
It is on Friday, 23 October 2026. The disappearance days of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami are observed on the same day.
Who was Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami?
He was a great devotee and poet of Vrindavana, a follower of the Gosvamis, and the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, the most widely read biography of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in ISKCON.
What did Lord Nityananda tell Krishnadasa Kaviraja in a dream?
Lord Nityananda told him not to be afraid and to go to Vrindavana, where he would attain all things. Krishnadasa set out for Vrindavana with a joyful mind.
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Key facts
- Date
- Friday, 23 October 2026
- Also on this day
- Disappearance Day of Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami · Disappearance Day of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami
- Author of
- Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
- Lived at
- Near Radha Kunda, Vrindavana
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