Disappearance Day of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami

What is the Disappearance Day of Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami?

Each year devotees remember the day Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and Govinda-lilamrta, left this world for the Lord's eternal pastimes. In 2027 that day is Tuesday, 12 October.

Significance

The Vaishnavas of Vrindavana longed to hear the later pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and they asked Krishnadasa to write them down. He prayed to the Deity Madana Mohana, and when a garland fell from Him, Krishnadasa took it as the Lord's permission. Srila Jiva Gosvami gave Krishnadasa the title Kaviraja, which means king of poets, in honour of the Govinda-lilamrta.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is loved for its humility as much as for its philosophy. Its author never presents himself as a scholar, and that is the mood of a true Vaishnava. In one verse he writes of himself:

I am more sinful than Jagāi and Mādhāi and even lower than the worms in the stool.

Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 5.205

How to observe it

Read a chapter of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, even a short one, and pray for a share of its author's humility. Chant extra rounds of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and remember Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, whose disappearance days fall on the same date.